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Assistant Professor of Physics Natalie Gosnell ’08 has been awarded the highly competitive Cottrell Scholar Award, which supports both original scientific research and new educational initiatives. The Cottrell Scholar program is highly competitive and open only to faculty members completing their third year in their first tenure-track appointment. The $100,000 award from the private Research…

At their annual February meeting, the Board of Trustees approved new charter trustees Justin “Chester” White ’15 and Tony Rosendo ’02 (Rosendo will start his position in 2022), and new board officers Jeff Keller ’91 P’22, chair; Ryan Haygood ’97, vice chair; and Heather Carroll ’89, secretary. The positions are effective July 1.

Associate Professor of Business Kat Miller-Stevens has been named the new director of CC’s State of the Rockies Project. Miller-Stevens’ interdisciplinary research bridges the areas of business, public policy, social impact, and nonprofit studies. Her research explores how social movements and collaborations create social change to influence policymakers and powerful industries. She is especially interested…

The Economics and Business Department launched a new interdisciplinary major in Block 5, one that examines the intersection of business and economics with society and builds on the commonalities and differences between the two disciplines. The new major, Business, Economics, and Society (BESoc), explores human economic behavior — its nature, sources, and consequences —and analyzes…

Nine Colorado College faculty members were approved by the Board of Trustees for tenure and promotion to associate professor following the board’s annual February meeting. The CC faculty members awarded tenure and promoted, effective July 1, are: Additionally, the board awarded emeriti status to seven faculty members who retired or are retiring by the end…

Colorado College has received a $33.5 million future estate gift from an anonymous donor, the largest gift ever from an individual in the college’s 147-year history. The unprecedented estate commitment will support future needs of the college and provide funding for the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College. “We cannot fully express how…

L. Song Richardson, a legal scholar, educator, lawyer, and expert on implicit racial and gender bias, will assume the presidency on July 1.

CC has held six events in a series called “CC Conversations,” an in-depth, online forum which seeks to engage participants on the issues, events, and moments of our time. So far, the series has had more than 19,000 viewers, either through Zoom or joining via CC’s Facebook page for a livestream. The series centers on…

Assistant Professor of Chemistry Eli Fahrenkrug has been awarded a $55,000 grant from the American Chemical Society’s Petroleum Research Fund for a project titled “Selective Polymorph Crystallization within the Electrical Double Layer.” The grant, part of the ACS PRF’s Undergraduate New Investigator program, will support three undergraduate research fellowships each summer for the next three…