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Issue: Spring 2022

Vintage-Style Posters Send Contemporary Conservation Messages

CC Students Riff Off Old National Parks Posters in the State of the Rockies Vintage Poster Contest The State of the Rockies Project encourages students to explore environmental and social challenges in the Rocky Mountain West through collaborative student-faculty research, coursework, and stakeholder engagement. Students embark on interdisciplinary investigations around the region to discover the possibilities for balancing human activity without spoiling the natural environment. New this year was the Conservation in the West student vintage poster contest in which students were invited to design a vintage-style poster of a national park, monument, or forest in the Rocky Mountain region. Students based their posters on artwork produced during the Federal…

Issue: Spring 2022

Building on Originality: The Campaign for Colorado College Concludes, Raising $478M

The Building on Originality campaign has concluded, raising more than $478 million for the college and its students.

From left: Manya Whitaker, Associate Professor of Education, Executive Vice President, and Chief of Staff; Heidi R. Lewis, Director and Associate Professor in the Feminist and Gender Studies Program, and Coordinator of the Early Career Faculty Development Program; Emily Chan, Professor of Psychology, Director of the Bridge Scholars Program, Vice President and Dean of the Faculty; Rosalie M. Rodriguez, Senior Associate Dean of Students, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Director of the Butler Center

Issue: Spring 2022

More Women of Color in Leadership

But: ‘We Should Speak Frankly About the Barriers That Still Exist’ The leadership at Colorado College has changed dramatically throughout the years, and now, in the 2021-22 academic year, the college has never had as many feminine-identifying, Black, Indigenous, people of color voices as it does now. While this is an enormous success for Colorado…

Issue: Spring 2022

CC Receives Mellon Foundation Grant to Address Demand for Diversity, Social Justice

Colorado College has been selected as one of the recipients of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s Humanities for All Times grant. This initiative will support the college’s new General Education curriculum to teach students about social justice issues and give them the tools to tackle injustices head-on. CC will receive $1,024,000 over three years for…

Issue: Spring 2022

Making of Mythic Proportions

The multimedia performance piece ‘Boy mother/faceless bloom’ was conceived and premiered at CC.

Issue: Spring 2022

What We’re Learning

Book: The Movement: The African American Struggle for Civil Rights New York: Oxford University Press, 2021 By Thomas C. Holt P’21 Recommended by Bryant “Tip” Ragan, Ph.D. — William R. Hochman Professor, Department of History, Executive Director of the Society for French Historical Studies Thomas C. Holt’s “The Movement: The African American Struggle for Civil Rights” may be a short book, but it is an important one. Although I thought I knew something about the civil rights movement, I was wrong. Holt’s analysis of the long-term struggle for freedom, equality, and respect by African Americans taught me so much. He unpacks the complex ways that particular geographical and temporal factors…

Issue: Spring 2022

Pair of Tigers Earn All-America Accolades

Colorado College women’s cross country runner Elliot Singer ’25 and volleyball player Georgia Mullins ’22 joined an exclusive club of Tiger student-athletes to earn All-America honors for their exemplary athletic performances last Fall. Photos by Charlie Lengal. Singer, a first-year from San Francisco, California, achieved All-America status by placing 29th at the 2021 NCAA Division III Cross Country Championship in Louisville, Kentucky. She finished the race in a personal-best 6K time of 21:39.2, the fourth-fastest in program history. Singer was the third-fastest first-year student in the meet and the first All-America honoree from CC since Leah Wessler ’17 and Katie Lee Sandfort ’17 both earned the honor in 2016. Singer…

Issue: Spring 2022

State of the Rockies Project Nets $385,000 Grant for Poll, Student Engagement

For the 12th year, Colorado College’s State of the Rockies Project was awarded a grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. The award of $385,000 supports the 2022 Conservation in the West Poll and related student programming. The bipartisan poll surveys voters’ views regarding the conservation of public lands, energy, water, wildlife, wildfire, and other challenges in Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. The student engagement funding will be used for the following cross-disciplinary projects: A survey of public land visitors A student photo contest Vintage-style (1930s) promotional posters “Dark Skies” State of the Rockies/CC Journalism Institute collaboration

Issue: Spring 2022

Alumnus Co-invented DIY Air Cleaners in Use on Campus

Jim Rosenthal ’70 co-invented the Corsi-Rosenthal box air filter, a practical, low-cost, and award-winning tool for helping to mitigate Coronavirus transmission. The apparatus includes five filters and a box fan. Rosenthal is a co-founder of Air Relief Technologies Inc., the parent company of Tex-Air Filters. He has been in the air filtration industry since 1997 and frequently contributes to industry and professional publications on filtration, indoor air quality, and environmental controls for allergy and asthma. Andrea Bruder, chief public health advisor to the president at Colorado College, built five of the Corsi-Rosenthal box DIY filters over a weekend in January for CC offices and departments.

Issue: Spring 2022

Classics Professor Awarded Coveted Fellowship in Athens

Associate Professor of Classics and Judson Bemis Professor in the Humanities Sanjaya Thakur was selected as an Elizabeth A. Whitehead Distinguished Scholar at the American School for Classical Studies, Athens, for the 2022-23 academic year. The ASCSA is the oldest American overseas research center for advanced inquiry in the fine arts and humanities. Its mission is to advance knowledge of Greece and all aspects of Greek culture. While in residence, Thakur will be working on several related academic projects, including athletics in Homer’s “Odyssey” and depictions of boxers on ancient Greek vases.