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Eight New Members Named to Board of Trustees

The CC Board of Trustees, at its meeting held virtually June 10-12, approved eight new members for terms beginning in July 2020. The new trustees are Alan Woo ’71; Jane Franke ’84, P’17; Frieda Ekotto ’86; So Yong Park ’87; Eric Duran ’91; Onyx Bengston ’18; Elliott Williams ’21; and France Winddance Twine. “We are honored to elect these new trustees representing a wide array of communities, perspectives, and professions,” says Susie Burghart ’77, board chair. “We look forward to the knowledge, input, and passion they bring to the table as we work on key initiatives for the college, such as our vitally important antiracism mission, navigating the challenges of…

Issue: Summer 2020

Prioritizing Mental Health

Alumnae Address Some Strategies for Coping in 2020 and Beyond Recognizing that this year has been extra challenging for many, we reached out to three Colorado College alumnae who are all professionals in different areas of the mental health space and asked for a few tips from each of their areas of expertise. Brittany Linton ’09, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist and serves as the director for primary care and mental health integration for the San Francisco Veterans Healthcare System. A prior clinical operations manager for Mindstrong Health, a telemental health technology startup, she’s focused her career on how psychology, health, and technology contribute toward mental health resilience. particularly for Black and…

Issue: Summer 2020

Michael Sawyer, Colleague Discuss Malcolm X in Virtual Event

Michael Sawyer, assistant professor in Colorado College’s Race, Ethnicity, & Migration Studies program and English Department, participated in Harvard Book Store’s virtual event series in June. He and Flores Forbes, associate professor of urban planning at Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, discussed Sawyer’s recently published “Black Minded: The Political Philosophy of Malcolm X.” Sawyer, the director of the Africana Intellectual Project at Colorado College, is a political philosopher with a focus on Blackness in particular. Sawyer says the discussion with Forbes was in the works as part of a book tour, but because of the virus it was shifted to a virtual event.

Issue: Summer 2020

Jennifer Garcia Receives $235,000 Boettcher Biomedical Research Grant

Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology Jennifer Garcia has been awarded a $235,000 grant from the highly competitive Boettcher Webb-Waring Biomedical Research Award Program, which supports early career investigators in Colorado whose research has a direct impact on human health. The three-year grant will fund a study in baker’s yeast that investigates a new cellular process that discards RNA, a type of genetic material, to help cells survive stress. Garcia says some of the molecular players she has implicated in this novel decay pathway also have been shown to play a role in the fatal neurodegenerative disease, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, more commonly known as ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease. This suggests…

Issue: Summer 2020

Recording Graduate Videos: ‘Wow to How?’

Former President Jill Tiefenthaler recorded 539 individualized videos for graduates; 524 for undergraduates and 15 for graduates in CC’s Master of Arts in Teaching program. The idea for personalized videos came about as she and others were discussing the results of a survey CC sent to seniors and their families as to what they wanted for their graduation. “The vast majority of the Class of 2020 was very clear that they wanted an in-person traditional graduation on campus when it was safe and they didn’t want a virtual ceremony this May,” says Tiefenthaler. “But several did say it would be nice for the class to get a video or letter…

Issue: Summer 2020

CC Students, Recent Graduates Accumulate Array of Awards

Colorado College students and recent alumni garnered a range of academic awards this year. The students and recent alumni represent a variety of departments and disciplines. Not pictured: Maxwell Veiga ’20 Erasmus Mundus Scholarship This year more than half of CC’s 19 Fulbright applicants, or 58%, advanced to semifinalist status. Colorado College’s 2020-21 Fulbright semifinalists include: Kenneth Crossley ’19 Spencer Daigle ’20 Bita Kavoosi ’20 Daniel Lopez ’19 Charlotte Majercik ’20 Sarah Pokelwaldt ’20 Willa Serling ’20 Naomi Tsai ’19

Issue: Summer 2020

Send Us Your Sticker Photos

In “A Tiger Can Change His Stripes” in the Spring 2020 issue of the Bulletin, CC Athletics wrote about the unveiling of the newly refreshed logos and mascot. Inserted into the print edition of this issue, you’ll find a sticker with the new Athletics logo and we’d love to see pictures of you with it stuck to your favorite water bottle, car window, or other sticker-friendly item. Email photos to bulletin@coloradocollege.edu and we’ll share some of the images in the winter edition of the Bulletin.

Issue: Summer 2020

Fall Sports Postponed

The Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC) and Mountain West announced they will not participate in NCAA intercollegiate competition during the Fall 2020 season. The SCAC stated on July 16 that NCAA intercollegiate competition will not occur during the fall due to health and safety concerns stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic. This includes conference and non-conference competition. The league’s decision affects CC’s Division III sports of men’s soccer, volleyball, cross country, and tennis (non-traditional fall season). “Not unlike the decision we had to make this past spring, today’s decision was difficult and not taken lightly,” says SCAC Commissioner Dwayne Hanberry. “At the very least, it is extremely frustrating to be forced…

Issue: Summer 2020

Alumnus Returns to CC as Men’s Basketball Coach

Jeff Conarroe ’99, associate head coach for the men’s basketball program at Division I California State University, Bakersfield, has accepted the position of head men’s basketball coach at Colorado College. Conarroe, a three-year letter winner in basketball at Colorado College, spent the last nine seasons at CSU Bakersfield, the first eight as an assistant coach before his promotion to associate head coach prior to the 2019-20 campaign. “Colorado College is a special place that is an ideal fit for me and my family,” Conarroe says. ”I am grateful to [Vice President and Director of Athletics] Lesley Irvine for believing in me. Her passion for Colorado College and vision for CC…

Issue: Summer 2020

Jeff Bieri Named New Station Manager of 91.5 KRCC

Jeff Bieri, a 30-year radio industry veteran, has been named the new station manager of 91.5 KRCC. Bieri, who currently serves as program manager, was promoted to station manager for the Colorado Springs-based public radio station, which is owned by Colorado College and operated by Colorado Public Radio. Bieri has been an active leader of the integration of KRCC into CPR’s operations, working closely across all departments. He also will be an essential member of the team working to design the new public media center for Southern Colorado at 720 N. Tejon St. in Colorado Springs. The center is slated to open next summer, and will include offices for KRCC, Colorado…