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<\/a>The academic year remains the core of our mission, but part of our strategic plan is to create more and varied opportunities for students in the summer. Summer is a great time for experimentation, practice, and adventure. Not surprisingly, our students and faculty have responded \u2014 creating and taking advantage of new opportunities. In this issue of the Bulletin, <\/i>we highlight some of the exciting opportunities CC offered during this past summer.<\/p>\nOne of our new summer initiatives is offering intensive, hands-on learning through thematically linked blocks (Blocks A & B) that integrate academic and practical experiences. Last summer, we launched three new programs. One example, the Colorado Documentary Institute, provided students with the opportunity to develop film production, interview, and research skills while creating their own documentaries.<\/b><\/p>\n
Summer also provides invaluable opportunities for faculty-student collaboration. Approximately 100 students worked with faculty on campus last summer and, thanks to an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant, the students also participated in research workshops and showcased their work at CC\u2019s inaugural Summer Undergraduate Collaborative Research Symposium. The scope of research ranged from a project by Leigh Nicholl \u201915<\/b> and Professor David Brown on \u201cStochastic Modeling of Quorum Sensing in Gram-Negative Bacteria\u201d to
\nAlex Suber \u201915<\/b> and Professor Scott Krzych\u2019s study of \u201cPsychoanalysis and the Cinema.\u201d<\/p>\n
The flexibility of the Summer Session also allows faculty to offer courses in inspiring locations around the world. Over the past summer, students joined faculty in 15 countries including Professor Heidi Lewis\u2019 course in Germany, titled Invisible Women: Afro-German Women and Feminisms, and Professor Sanjaya Thakur and Riley Scholar Richard Buxton\u2019s course in Italy, titled Rome, Naples, Sicily: Crossroads of the Ancient Mediterranean.<\/p>\n
CC alumni, parents, faculty, and the Career Center helped many students find \u2014 and fund \u2014 summer internships. With support from the college, students could afford to take otherwise \u201cunpaid\u201d internships. Andrew DesLauriers \u201916<\/b> worked as a research project manager for the MindBody Medicine Clinic at the University of Vermont College of Medicine. Theodosia Fehsenfeld \u201916<\/b> interned with the Puget Sound Restoration Fund. As a Public Interest Fellowship Program Summer Fellow, Heidi<\/b> Yim<\/b> \u201916<\/b> worked in the education program of
\nthe National Conference of State Legislatures.<\/p>\n
Students also used other institutional resources to pursue their intellectual adventures. For example, Joseph Eisaguirre \u201915<\/b> received a Keller Family Venture Grant to study \u201cSpatial Variation of the Golden Eagle Diet, Nest Site Productivity, and Nest Area Landscape Characteristics on the Seward Peninsula, Alaska.\u201d Jack Rodat \u201915<\/b>, Niels Davis \u201915<\/b>, and John Nestler \u201915<\/b> used a Ritt Kellogg Memorial Fund Expedition Grant to fund their adventure paddling sea kayaks along the coast of Newfoundland to a remote bay with towering granite cliffs.<\/p>\n
The opportunities at Colorado College abound! As we implement \u201cBuilding on the Block,\u201d we will strengthen and grow opportunities for our students. Whether taking a classics course\u00a0in Italy, collaborating with a faculty mentor on groundbreaking research, or teaching high school as I did, students will be transformed, getting ready to begin their own journeys.<\/p>\n
Best regards,<\/p>\n
Jill Tiefenthaler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dear Alumni, Parents, and Friends of Colorado College, It was my junior year in college and summer was rapidly approaching. Like many college students, I was eager for a break, but also wanted to have a meaningful summer experience. After considering my options, I spent the summer teaching math at a boarding school. It was…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-8922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-december-2014","tag-presidents-page"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2014\/11\/Jill-Fifty-Year-Club.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8922"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9131,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8922\/revisions\/9131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}