Five CC Students and Alums Advance as Fulbright Semifinalists
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Fulbright semifinalist Brett LeVan ’26, Study Award for University of Roehampton in Dance, United Kingdom. Photo provided by LeVan.
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By Khloe Haney
Colorado College has announced that five of its 11 Fulbright U.S. Student Program applicants have advanced to semifinalist status for the 2026-27 competition cycle.
The semifinalists are:
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- Brett LeVan ’26, Study Award for University of Roehampton in Dance, United Kingdom
- Luke Ortiz Grabe ’25, Research Award, Serbia
- Felix Battle ’26, English Teaching Assistant Award, Germany
- Mimi (Emily) Norton de Matos ’22, English Teaching Assistant Award, Portugal
- Zoe Williamson ’26, English Teaching Assistant Award, Botswana
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The Fulbright U.S. Student Program offers three post-graduate opportunities: research, study, and English Teaching Assistant awards.
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Mountain West Voters Show Growing Concerns Over Public Land Protections Heading into 2026 Elections
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“Alpine Reflection,” taken by Mary Cate Kiser ’27, won the People’s Choice Popular Vote in the student photo contest for the State of the Rockies Project. Photo provided by Kiser.
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Results from Colorado College’s 16th annual State of the Rockies Conservation in the West Poll released Feb. 18 show widespread concern among Western voters about rollbacks of protections for land, water, and wildlife and cuts to funding for public land management.
The poll, which surveyed voters in eight Mountain West states—Colorado, Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming—found that Western voters across party lines are prioritizing conservation, recreation, and renewables over fossil fuel development heading into this year’s midterm elections.
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Windows Copilot App to Be Disabled on College Devices
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In the coming weeks, ITS will disable the built-in Windows Copilot app on college-owned Windows computers as part of ongoing information security efforts. This change applies only to the Windows desktop app. Copilot within Microsoft 365 applications will continue to work as expected, and most users should see little to no impact.
Your Copilot license is not changing, and you can still access Copilot through the Microsoft 365 Copilot app or the web using your CC account. Supported alternatives remain available, so your day-to-day workflow should not be affected.
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Board of Trustees Town Hall Set for Monday, March 2
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The Board of Trustees Town Hall is coming up soon! Remember to tune in to the virtual town hall on Monday, March 2 from 2:30-3:30 p.m. to hear from Board of Trustees Chair Kyle Samuel ’92 and President Manya Whitaker as they report on the latest Board of Trustees meeting.
A recording of the town hall will be shared with the campus community the following week. Register today!
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Computer Science Majors Prepare to Publish Human-Robot Interaction Research
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Yousef Sengal ’27 (left) and Owen McGann ’26 present their research on Human-Robot Interaction at the 2025 Summer Faculty-Student Collaborative Research and Internship Symposium. Photo provided by McGann.
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By Julia Fennell ’21
Computer Science majors Owen McGann ’26 and Yousef Sengal ’27 spent last summer conducting research on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) and how the language used to introduce robots can shape human perception.
McGann and Sengal worked with Blake Jackson ’16, Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, who first started research in this field while pursuing his PhD at Colorado School of Mines and who started this research project while teaching at Harvey Mudd College. Jackson worked with students there to develop the idea and design an experiment, but then got involved in other projects. He then returned to the idea with McGann and Sengal and since the field of social robotics had made significant developments, started revising the experiment design.
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Live Performance of “We Lit a Fire and Trusted the Heat (After Angela Davis)” Activated by Thaddeus Tukes
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Photo provided by the FAC.
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In conjunction with the museum’s presentation of Maria Gaspar’s 60 hour and 20-minute video, Clamour (2022), please join us on Friday, Feb. 27 at 5 p.m. for a special performance of We Lit a Fire and Trusted the Heat (After Angela Davis) by Gaspar and activated by musician Thaddeus Tukes. In the performance, Tukes plays a variety of percussive instruments, including Gaspar’s sonic sculpture made of iron bars salvaged from the demolition of two housing blocks formerly operated by the Cook County Department of Corrections in Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood.
Through the sounding of carceral debris, the artists activate the bars through generative touch and vibration, transforming materials of confinement into resonant sites of collective imagination and liberation.
Free with museum admission; RSVPs are requested as space is limited.
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Professor of Physical Chemistry Sally Meyer and her students from her EV212, studying the use of geothermal energy in food production, at Colorado Gators. Photo provided by Meyer.
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