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Issue: December 2015

Student Perspective

From left: Deaira Hermani ’17, Chloe Sharples ’16, Hannah Jean Shaper ’16, Emma Whitehead ’16, and Annika Kastetter ’17 of the women’s comedy troupe Eggs Ovariesy perform at the Taylor Theater during Family Weekend.

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Issue: December 2015

John Novembre ’00

Everyone calls it the “genius award.” The official title is the MacArthur Fellowship, and it’s a cool $625,000, five-year stipend with no strings attached.

Among this year’s recipients, “24 Extraordinarily Creative People Who Inspire Us All”: John Novembre, a biochemistry major who graduated cum laude from Colorado College in 2000. “I’m tremendously honored to have received…

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Issue: December 2015

Five New Faces of Innovation

When Eboni Statham ’17 was looking at schools, she knew she wanted to be part of a college radio station, so CC’s student station “Sounds of CC” attracted her right away. Once she was a student, she was drawn into CC’s vibrant scene of student bands and music shows. She became a DJ at the station, then moved into a staff role as events manager. From there, she says, she “just went crazy,” taking a leadership role at the station and helping The SOCC realize its potential on a campus that’s wild about music. She helped to start a band management program, assisting student bands with buying equipment, promotions, and…

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Issue: December 2015

SCoRe Numbers

According to Associate Professor of History Jane Murphy, co-director with Associate Professor of Biology Phoebe Lostroh of what’s known as SCoRe (Summer Collaborative Research Program), 117 students engaged in undergraduate research during summer 2015, both on- and off-campus. Multiple sources of funding provide the same stipend of $4,000 to individual students for 10 weeks of…

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Issue: December 2015

CC Scores Across Sports

Volleyball Sweeps Conference Honors The CC volleyball team swept all four of the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference’s top individual honors after com-pleting the most successful regular-season in program history. Courtney Birkett ’16 was named Player of the Year, Sophie Merrifield ’16 was selected Backrow Player
of the Year, and Myca Steffey-Bean ’19 was tabbed Freshman of the Year. Rounding out the recipients
was Rick Swan, who was voted Coach of the Year. Birkett won the SCAC Player of the Year award after recording eight triple-doubles, which ranked third in
the nation. Merrifield was honored as the SCAC Backrow Player of the Year after leading the Tigers with 663 digs and holds the school…

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