CC Honors Stroud Family in Newly Named Space

The honoring of a family’s legacy — and its lineage of perseverance — is enshrined in the Kelley Dolphus Stroud ’31 Club Level on the fourth floor of CC’s Ed Robson Arena. The family’s story is one of tragedy and triumph, and the space, named for Stroud, a prolific scholar, elite athlete, and Olympic competitor, brings together CC’s history, its ongoing commitment to antiracism, the Olympics, Stroud’s native Colorado Springs, and the City for Champions initiative.

Luis Garcia Puente Named American Mathematical Society Fellow

Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science Luis David Garcia Puente has been invited to join the 2022 class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society. He is one of 45 mathematical scientists from around the world to have been named an AMS fellow for 2022, and one of only nine AMS fellows in Colorado.

Garcia Puente is being honored for contributions to applied algebraic geometry, including algebraic statistics and geometric modeling, and for broadening participation in the mathematical sciences. He is an active member of the Latinxs and Hispanics in the Mathematical Sciences Community, the Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science and The National Alliance for Doctoral Studies in the Mathematical Sciences. He has directed undergraduate research projects for 20 years, involving close to 100 undergraduate students in his work.

Students Help Launch Vintage West Poster Contest

Video by Eric Ingram ’23

Colorado College’s State of the Rockies Project encourages students to explore critical environmental and social challenges in the Rocky Mountain West. Students embark on interdisciplinary investigations around the region to discover the possibilities for balancing human activity without spoiling the natural environment.

Watch students Kaitlin Steinfort ’22 and Mar Wilson ’23 run the campus letterpress, producing vintage-style posters to help promote the college’s State of the Rockies Conservation in the West student vintage poster contest.

‘People • Place • Power’ Podcast Explores the Big Questions

In January 2021, Creativity & Innovation at CC officially launched the Student Seed Innovation Grant program, designed to empower students to investigate questions and solve real-world problems. The SSIG program seeks to be an idea accelerator by providing resources for students to be creative problem-solvers, embrace ambiguity, and iterate a project or idea forward.

One of last year’s funded SSIG projects, the podcast “People • Place • Power,” has launched its first episodes. “People • Place • Power” is a longform podcast that explores big questions about activism around the world. Created by longtime friends Benjamin Swift ’22 and Trisha Mukherjee (Columbia University ’21) they decided to make a podcast when they were sent home due to COVID. They originally planned to create a travel podcast to virtually take people around the world during a time when most forms of travel were impossible. After innumerable iterations of ideas, however, they realized that what interested them most about travel was not the traveling itself, but rather the activists that they met while traveling. Thus “People • Place • Power” was born. In its first season, “People • Place • Power” will bring listeners stories about how activists from India to Haiti to Afghanistan to Oklahoma are reclaiming their power.

CC Coach Named Top 100 Greatest College Swimming and Diving Coaches of the Past Century

Anne Goodman James, head coach of the men’s and men’s swimming teams has been selected to the College Swimming & Diving Coaches Association of America’s 100 Greatest College Swimming & Diving Coaches of the past century.

Goodman James, who has produced 97 All-Americans, 29 national champions and countless NCAA qualifiers at five different schools since 1976, became head coach at CC in 2006.

Photo of the Week

Photo by Lonnie Timmons III

Tree down in the windstorm December 15th

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