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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…

Issue: Summer 2017 • Tags:

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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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…

Issue: Summer 2017 • Tags: ,

CC Art Week Program for Alumni, Parents, and Friends

October is known nationally as Art Month, and this year we have even more reason to celebrate with the alliance between Colorado College and the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. To honor the alliance, we’re excited to announce our first-ever CC Art Week, to take place the week of Oct. 9-13 with daily programming for…

Issue: Spring 2017 • Tags:

Virtual Book Club

Colorado College has an impressive number of alumni and faculty authors (as evidenced by the wait for publication in “On the Bookshelf”!) Readers, now there’s news of a virtual book club for CC on Goodreads. The first featured book will be the debut novel by Kathy Giuffre, professor of sociology, whose work “The Drunken Spelunker’s…

Issue: Spring 2017 • Tags:

A Message From Your Alumni Board

As this will be my final article as president of the Alumni Association Board, I am grateful for what has been a very rewarding opportunity. As I prepare for the transition for AAB President-Elect Jesse Horn ’07 to take office in July, I’m also aware of the transition our graduating seniors will make this spring…

Issue: Spring 2017 • Tags:

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Seven Faculty Members Granted Tenure, Promotions

Seven faculty members were approved by the Board of Trustees for tenure and promotion to associate professor. President Jill Tiefenthaler and Sandra Wong, dean of the college and dean of the faculty, visited each promoted faculty member, delivering the official news along with some bubbly. Those granted tenure and promoted to associate professor, effective July…

Issue: Spring 2017 • Tags:

‘I was searching for a fool when I found you.’

Need inspiration for your insults? There’s always “Thou art a boil, a plague sore, an embossed carbuncle in my corrupted blood.” Or, more to the point: “Thou art like a toad: ugly and venomous.” Talking about someone behind their back? “The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes.” Associate Professor of Theatre and Dance Andrew…

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CC Speak:Yes,‘Blockly’ can be an Adjective

We all know there are certain words and phrases only CC Tigers understand. Here are a couple; send in others we may have missed! Blockly: Describes the frequency with which many CC events occur on the Block Plan. May be modified with once, twice, etc. Chas: Nickname for the statue of Charles Leaming Tutt, Jr.,…

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