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Dez Stone Menendez ’02 started as director of Innovation at CC in September. She began working as an entrepreneur at age 23 and the orienting principle of her work is to empower people to lead larger and morecreative lives. She is the founder and owner of the Possibility Room, which began as a startup incubator…

The first major phase in the strategic planning process undertaken by Colorado College and the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center wrapped up in October. Four community listening sessions were held, as well as small focus group sessions and large group discussions, in order to seek input from various constituents regarding the re-envisioning and redefining of…

CC students and Facilities Services installed a 2,650-square-foot live green roof on the Honnen Ice Arena in August to help with sustainability efforts, transforming the formerly barren roof into a lush carpet of 12,800 succulent sedums. Honnen is the least efficient building on campus, which makes it an ideal place to study the roof’s effectiveness…

Mike Love P’10, seated, Beach Boys singer and music icon, signs posters for fans following a discussion of his memoir, “Good Vibrations: My Life as a Beach Boy,” in September as part of CC’s Visiting Writers Series. The book tells the story of his five-decade tenure in the legendary band. Photo by Vivian Nguyen ’20.

Fred Sondermann taught in CC’s Department of Political Science from 1953 until his death in 1978. He conceived the idea for a presidential symposium and directed the first one in 1968. The symposium’s success was such that the department decided to offer the presidential symposium in subsequent presidential election years, and Sondermann continued to direct…

Rosa Clemente delivers a lecture titled “The Day After: Civic Responsibility and Social Justice Beyond the Ballot” in the Edith Kinney Gaylord Cornerstone Arts Center on Nov. 9. CC students lead a march from campus to downtown Colorado Springs the day after the election. Several students carried signs addressing the divisiveness that surfaced during and after…

Joshua Duchan, left, a Billy Joel scholar at Wayne State University, and CC Assistant Professor of Music Ryan Bañagale ’00, conduct a live phone interview with musician and songwriter Billy Joel. They co-chaired “It’s Still Rock and Roll to Me: The Music and Lyrics of Billy Joel,” a two-day conference held at CC in early…

Political Science Professor Tim Fuller was honored with a festschrift, or published tribute, compiled by colleagues and former students who have gone on to academic careers. The book, “Philosophy, Politics and the Conversation of Mankind: Essays in Honor of Tim Fuller,” captures much of the range of Fuller’s interests in ancient and modern political theory,…

At the Catamount Center outside Woodland Park, Colorado, Nicolai Calabria ’18 leads students from Columbine Elementary School in an experiment to sample lake water, looking at macroinvertebrate life as one indicator of the lake’s health. Calabria is participating in the TREE Semester at CC. TREE stands for Teaching and Research in Environmental Education and is…

Photos by  Vivian Nguyen ’20 and Bryan Oller