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Issue: Summer 2017

Class of 2021 Reads ‘Citizen: An American Lyric’

 Members of CC’s incoming Class of 2021 and transfer students are reading “Citizen: An American Lyric” by Claudia Rankine as part of Colorado College’s Common Book Read program. Rankine was on campus in February as the Block 6 First Mondays speaker and delivered the capstone address during New Student Orientation. She is the author of five collections of poetry, two plays, numerous video collaborations, and the editor of several anthologies. “Citizen” recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in 21st-century daily life and in the media. Some of these encounters are slights, seeming slips of the tongue, while others are intentional offensives. Rankine writes that the cumulative stresses come to…

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Issue: Summer 2017

Alex Hernandez-Siegel Joins CC as New Chaplain

 Alex Hernandez-Siegel joined CC as the new chaplain and associate dean of students on Aug. 1. Previously he was at Harvard University, where he served as university chaplain since 2012 and advised graduate students in the organismic and evolutional biology Ph.D. program. Additionally, he worked for two years as a community associate director with the Pluralism Project at Harvard. While overseeing student academic progress and diversity recruitment in Harvard’s organismic and evolutional biology program, he also led national efforts to attract underrepresented students to the genomic sciences at the undergraduate and postdoctoral levels. As chaplain at CC, Hernandez-Siegel will provide leadership in the ethical, religious, and spiritual dimensions of community…

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Issue: Summer 2017

More CC People Celebrated!

            “Celebrating CC People” is an ongoing feature in which faculty and staff members who have had a significant impact on the college are profiled. Recently added to the ever-expanding series are Laurel McLeod ’69, MAT ’75, former vice president for student life and the last person to hold the title of dean of women, and John Simons, professor emeritus of English. Read about them and others at http://sites.coloradocollege.edu/bulletin/celebrating-cc-people/

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Issue: Summer 2017

Quad Innovation Partnership 
Tackles Community Issues

 Ten CC students were among 25 students and recent grads from four area colleges and universities who participated in the third Quad Innovation Project Summer Intensive, partnering with local organizations in developing scalable, innovative solutions to real-world problems. “I was pushed out of my comfort zone and challenged to think bigger, broader, and from multiple…

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Issue: Summer 2017

Big Idea Team Accepted into Clinton Global Initiative

 John Roy Ballossini Dommett ’18, Harvey Kadyanji ’18, and Niyanta Khatri ’17 review the code and design for their Ogugu application during a team work session. Ogugu, which took third-place in this year’s Big Idea competition, has been selected to participate in the Clinton Global Initiative University’s 10th annual meeting in October. Ogugu is a…

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Issue: Summer 2017

Forget TED. We’ve Got 
TUTT Talks

 Five students presented at CC’s first-ever TUTT Talks, held in April in McHugh Commons. Participants Helena Thatcher ’18, Maggie Mehlman ’19, Stefani Messick ’17, Trevon Newmann ’18 (right), and Barbora Hanzalova ’17 shared how their passions can make an impact, showcasing the ideas, experience, and creativity of CC’s community. Students used performance, spoken-word poetry, and TED Talk-style presentations to share their passions in less than 10 minutes. The event was sponsored by the Tutt Library transition team and the Office of Speech and Debate.

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Issue: Summer 2017

From The President

 Dear Alumni, Parents, and Friends, “Students felt more autonomous in classes where they participated in field trips. They also felt like they had more competence and that they formed a deeper connection with instructors and peers.” This is one of the fascinating findings from the research of Heather Fedesco, our inaugural pedagogy scholar, supported by…

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Issue: Summer 2017

Five awarded tenure

 Five Colorado College associate professors were promoted to full professor during the June Board of Trustees meeting. They are: Lori Driscoll, Psychology An alumna of Colorado College, Driscoll earned her B.A. (1994) in psychology, magna cum laude. After completing her dissertation on “The Effects of Developmental Lead Exposure on the Cholinergic Modulation of Attention and Reactivity to Errors,” she earned her Ph.D. (2003) in biopsychology with minors in Nutritional Biochemistry and Neuroanatomy at Cornell University. Driscoll teaches Introduction to Psychology, Research Design, Neuroscience, Neuropharmacology and the Science and Ethics of Biotechnology in the Psychology Department. Her research focuses on cognitive function and neurotoxicology. Recent coauthored publications include “‘Ecstasy’: A Party…

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