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Innovation continues to thrive at Colorado College – and the college’s efforts have been nationally recognized. CC launched an Innovator-in-Residence Program this fall featuring two well-known innovators, Michael Hannigan ’75, founder and former CEO of the Pikes Peak Community Foundation, and Aaron Kahlow, founder and former CEO of the Online Marketing Institute. Kahlow was on…

The 25 students taking Lisa Hughes’ interdisciplinary course Romantic Comedy: The Birth, Death, and Re-birth during Block 2 in Greece were struck by the plight of refugees and vowed to help. With broad support from CC students, faculty, staff, alumni, student clubs, and athletics teams, the students raised more than $2,250 to buy necessities for…

Four first-year students, Amelia Eskenazi ’19, Joann Bandales ’19, Padah Vang ’19, and David Gonzalez Salgado ’19, have created the “Humans of Colorado College” Facebook page. Modeled after the “Humans of New York” project, the page seeks to tell stories that others aren’t aware of, letting students know it’s OK to be vulnerable and helping…

Visitors to campus will notice a more pedestrian-friendly and aesthetically pleasing Cache La Poudre Street, between Cascade and Nevada avenues. The Cache La Poudre Improvement Project is the first phase to address the campus master plan’s recommendation to create a clearer gateway into campus from the south. The project extends the curb on the south…

More than 125 members of the Colorado College community gathered for the dedication of the Kathryn Mohrman Theatre in Armstrong Hall in early November. Mohrman served as the 11th president of Colorado College — and the first woman to hold that position — from 1993 to 2002. Speaking at the ceremony were Trustee Ryan Haygood…

The Barbara L. Yalich Class of 1953 Boardroom, located on the ground floor of the renovated Spencer Center, was dedicated at a ceremony on Sept. 9. Barbara Yalich ’53 served as an alumni trustee from 1971-73; director of alumni support from 1973-75; director of alumni affairs from 1975-85; director of development from 1985-91; and vice…

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…

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…

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…