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December 2015
Sexual Assault: Prevention and Response at CC
Learn about the prevalence of sexual assault on campus and what educational efforts are underway to prevent it.Read more
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December 2015
Padah Vang’s Essay Wins ‘I’m First!’ Scholarship
Padah Vang ’19, of St. Paul, Minnesota, is one of only nine winners of the 2015 “I’m First!” Scholarship. More than 1,000 first-generation students applied for the prestigious scholarship, awarded by the nonprofit Center for Student Opportunity. Vang’s family members are Hmong from Laos, and she said the college process was difficult for her family…Read more
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December 2015
Meet the New Faculty Members
Colorado College welcomed 13 new tenure-track faculty members at the beginning of the 2015-16 academic year. Anthony Bull Associate Professor of Human Biology and Kinesiology Bull examines the effects of physical activity and energy balance on health and performance in humans. Lynne Gratz Assistant Professor of the Environmental Program Gratz’s research focuses on the atmospheric chemistry, transport, and deposition of air pollutants, such as mercury and ozone, over local and global scales. Nadia Guessous Assistant Professor of Feminist and Gender Studies Guessous is an anthropologist of postcolonial and trans-national feminism, who works on questions of religion and secularism, subjectivity, and affect in the Middle East and North Africa. Olivia…Read more
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December 2015
Alumni Association Presents Awards
Colorado College Alumni Association presented their annual awards on Saturday, Oct. 10, during Homecoming Weekend. Those receiving awards were Frieda Ekotto ’86 and Andrew Fahlund ’91, the Louis T. Benezet Award; Doug Norberg ’62, P ’88, P ’91 and Nancy Pettit Norberg ’64, P ’88, P ’91, the Lloyd E. Worner Award; and Associate Professor…Read more
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December 2015
KRCC Hires New General Manager
Tammy Terwelp joined CC in October as the new general manager of KRCC, Colorado College’s NPR-member station. Prior to coming to CC, Terwelp was the director of content and programming at 90.5 WESA, the NPR-member station in Pittsburgh. She has more than 20 years of public media experience with systems and operations; a strong knowledge…Read more
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December 2015
New Director of Campus Safety
Magdalena “Maggie” Santos ’86 recently joined CC as the new director of campus safety and emergency management. Santos graduated with a B.A. in Spanish education and taught for five years before serving with the Colorado Springs Police Department for nearly 25 years. She graduated from the Colorado Springs Police Department Training Academy, completed credits for a…Read more
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August 2015
In Memoriam: Bob Steck
Bob Steck, who began teaching in the Philosophy Department in the early 1970s, lost his battle with cancer March 9 in West Roxbury, Massachusetts. He is survived by his wife of 36 years, Sarah Bullard Steck; four daughters; Katherine, Ashley Austin, Vanessa, and Nicole; beloved grandson, Langston; and an older brother, Tom. His activism against the Vietnam War was an important part of his early adulthood and he remained politically engaged throughout his life. He was drafted late in the war and joined Vietnam Veterans Against the War after his return. He remained involved with VVAW throughout his life. In 2014, the Department of Veterans Affairs formally acknowledged the role…Read more
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August 2015
In Memoriam: Heinz Geppert
Heinz Geppert, May 7, at home in Colorado Springs at age 84. An emeriti lecturer, Heinz taught German at CC from 1991 to 2013. His courses included German film and the Holocaust, and he organized German cultural events open to the public. He received his B.A. from Colorado College in 1968 and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle. The title of his doctoral dissertation was “Georg Kaisers Dramentyp: Theorie und Bühnengestaltung. Before coming to CC Heinz taught at the University of Washington, Seattle; the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay; and Whitman College. Heinz also spent a year with Seattle Theater Arts and, after returning to CC, alternated…Read more
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August 2015
What’s On Your Reading List?
We asked Spanish Professor Clara Lomas: What’s On Your Reading List? “The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” by Junot Díaz “The book takes us on a journey into an American story of imagination, migrations, fantasy, and desire. This transnational novel is an aesthetic amalgam of realism, science fiction, magical realism, and action hero comic book.” Lomas is chair of the Spanish and Portuguese Department and director of the CC Semester in Latin America.Read more
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August 2015
Nancy Nagel Gibbs ’71
It takes a lot of people to make a hit Broadway show. If you had told Nancy Nagel Gibbs ’71, while she was working in the Armstrong Hall basement, that she would be the producer of the multi-Tony Award winner “Peter and the Starcatcher,” she would have said, “No way.” The Denver native didn’t have a plan when she took a small scholarship from Colorado College. It was just a fine school, she said, and close to home. She’d worked in theater in high school, but didn’t dream of working the Great White Way. Still, her work-study program took her backstage and into the tutelage of Jean McMillen, a creative…Read more