Bulletin

Issue: Winter 2017

And the Award for Best House Goes to ….

Professor of Political Science David Hendrickson ’76 found an interesting note on the door of his west side Colorado Springs home last summer. A location scout for “Our Souls at Night,” a Netflix film based on the book by the late Kent Haruf, thought the house would be perfect for the character played by Jane Fonda, who stars in the film with Robert Redford. The timing of the two-month filming schedule was fortuitous; Hendrickson was on sabba-tical during the Fall 2016 semester, spending his time in Santa Fe, New Mexico, working on a book. He and his wife, Clelia deMoraes ’76, hosted a neighborhood party when the film was released.…

Issue: Winter 2017

Nobel Prize Winner at CC

Kip Thorne, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics this fall, presented “Exploring the Universe with Gravitational Waves” in the Cornerstone Arts Center. He delivered the annual Roberts Lecture at CC as part of a retirement celebration for Professor of Physics Barbara Whitten. Thorne, a professor of physics at the California Institute of Technology, was one of three physicists who received the Nobel Prize for the discovery of ripples in space-time known as gravitational waves, which were predicted by Albert Einstein a century ago but had never been directly seen. Thorne was the advisor for CC Associate Professor of Physics Patricia Purdue’s thesis, “Topics in LIGO-related physics: Interferometric speed-meters…