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Building on the Block: Our Progress

The Colorado College community continues to complete and update components of the strategic plan, putting ideas into action. In 2013-14, the Center for Immersive Learning and Engaged Teaching funded 10 pilot projects that advanced the center’s vision. One of those successful projects was an adjunct writing course focused on senior theses. Molly Gross, the former associate director of the Writing Center who worked intimately with this project, said the pilot’s interdisciplinary nature created a sense of community that provided a safe space for student writers to collaborate and challenge one another. “The thesis is where they transition from being students to being professionals, and that skin can be uncomfortable. This…

Issue: December 2014

The Bridge Scholars Program: A Rigorous and Engaging Welcome to CC

This summer, 55 first-year students started their intellectual adventure at CC with the Bridge Scholars Program — a yearlong college transition program based on the most recent research in education and psychology. The program started with two weeks of intense coursework, followed by collaborative programming by the Dean’s Office, The Butler Center, and student mentors.…

Issue: December 2014

Tigers Show Off Many Stripes: Undergraduate Summer Research Symposium

Not so long ago, nearing completion of my master’s degree at Dartmouth College, I found myself presenting research from my dissertation to a room filled with suited and booted professors, classmates, and college community members. I had practiced the night before, and felt confident. My research was strong, the paper well-written, and the audience was…

Issue: December 2014

Tigers Use Paintball to Bond with Veterans

Athletes are often viewed as heroes after they make a key play or score the deciding goal. But on May 11, members of the Colorado College men’s basketball team competed against veterans who are real heroes. The 14 Tigers played paintball with veterans from the Army, Marines, and Air Force with combat injuries from Iraq and Afghanistan. Forward James Lonergan ’16 worked with Susan Holmes of Operation TBI (traumatic brain injury) Freedom to organize the activity. “Obviously, a basketball team and a bunch of war veterans are about as different as you can get,” Lonergan said. “But we had the opportunity to talk with them, hang out with them and…

Issue: December 2014

Women’s Soccer Scores Honor

Colorado College women’s soccer will add another impressive chapter to its storied history in July 2015 when it competes as Team USA at the World University Games in Gwangju, Korea. CC, which hosted the first collegiate championship in 1980, was selected by the U.S. International University Sports Federation (US-IUSF) as the first full collegiate women’s soccer team to represent the United States in the prestigious biennial event. “This is such a great honor for our program and players,” Head Coach Geoff Bennett said. “It is every player and coach’s dream to wear the red, white and blue, and represent the United States in international competition. I know our players and…

Issue: December 2014

Two CC Legends Join Hall of Fame

The Colorado Springs Sports Corp. hosted its 15th Annual Colorado Springs Sports Hall of Fame induction ceremony Oct. 28 at the Broadmoor World Arena. Two CC legends were among the five individuals, one team, and two special award winners joining the ranks of honorees. Horst Richardson embarked upon his 50th season with the CC men’s soccer program in 2014, a milestone no other Tigers coach has come close to matching and momentous among soccer coaches nationwide. Since joining the CC program in 1965 under Bill Boddington, then taking the head coaching position a year later, Richardson compiled an amazing record of 552 wins, 300 defeats, and 69 ties. Richardson led the…

Issue: December 2014

Putting Pen to Paper: Alumni, Friends Fund Journalist-in-Residence Program

Hampton Sides, author of the best-selling “In the Kingdom of Ice,” is taking the helm at CC’s new Journalist-in-Residence Program. The program aims to raise the profile of non-fiction writing on campus while also bringing some of the nation’s top non-fiction writers, which include historians, journalists, and commentators, to campus to teach and participate in…

Issue: December 2014

CC Geologist Makes Startling Discovery

Geology Professor Christine Smith Siddoway and CC geology students have made an astounding discovery in the rocks of Colorado, near Colorado Springs. Their findings, published by the Geological Society of America and published widely in the geology world, detail a sandstone formation amid surrounding granite. Siddoway notes that the sandstone is of major significance for Colorado and the eastern Rocky Mountains because it formed during the Cryogenian Period of geological time, for which there had been no known sedimentary record for this sizable region. This formation, called Tava sandstone, occurs as sedimentary intrusions within the surrounding ancient granite and gneisses that form the spine of the Colorado Front Range. Features of…

Issue: December 2014

Telluride Premiere Features CC Collaboration

A documentary co-produced by Assistant Professor of Film and New Media Studies Dylan Nelson, which also includes the work of numerous CC film students, premiered this summer at the prestigious Telluride (Colo.) Film Festival. The film, “Merchants of Doubt,” directed by Robert Kenner (“Food, Inc.”) and inspired by the book by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway, explores science denial and shows how pundits-for-hire have helped sow doubt about man-made climate change. Nelson spent two years on the film, which also provided opportunities for CC students and recent graduates. Among them are Ryan Loeffler ’12, who served as assistant editor and additional cameraman and continues to work fulltime at Robert Kenner…

Issue: December 2014

Barnes Part of $1.7 Million STEM-related Grant

Assistant Professor Rebecca Barnes, who began teaching at Colorado College this fall in the Environmental Program, is one of six principal investigators on a $1.7 million grant titled “Collaborative Research: Improving the Recruitment and Persistence of Women in the Geosciences: Exploring Deliberate Mentoring Approaches Aimed at Undergraduate Students.” The initiative is a collaborative, multi-school project that addresses two issues in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education (STEM): under-representation of women in the earth sciences and shortcomings of existing studies addressing effective strategies for mentoring. In the United States, men outnumber women in many science and engineering fields by nearly three to one; in fields such as physics or the geosciences,…