CC Stories

On August 5th, 2019, this year's Bridge Scholars are welcomed on campus for their first day of the program. After moving into their dorms, the scholars attend a reception and professor panel with their families, warmly say goodbye to their loved ones, and get to know their Bridge mentors and peers with games and s'mores. Photo by Vivian Nguyen '20

Environmental Studies professor Rebecca Barnes has for several years performed Summer Collaborative Research work with students to monitor and collect data from area streams, particularly those affected by wildfires near Deckers, CO where streams may have had elevated levels of carbon dioxide and oxygen from the runoff. Photo by Jennifer Coombes

Carissa Sherman ’21 performs lab work for a Summer Collaborative Research project with Molecular Biology Professor Olivia Hatton. Photo by Jennifer Coombes

Assistant Professor of Mathmatics Beth Malmskog works with Kadin Mangalik ’20, Jose Monge ’20, Haley Colgate ’20 and Edgar Santos Vega ’20 in the CC GIS Lab to aggregate data collected from the U.S. Census to determine how districts were reorganized in ways that could be considered gerrymandering. Malmskog and her students will produce a public-access tool to assess the fairness of potential voter redistricting plans for Colorado. Photo by Jennifer Coombes

Bella Lawrence ’21 and Hope Moodey ’21 are CC students who have internships through the history department researching the life of Helen Hunt Jackson. The two students are collaborating with the Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum and the museum’s Curator of History Leah Witherow using archived artifacts housed at CC and at the museum. The result will be completed research that will be used for a new section of the museum devoted to Jackson and educational opportunities that the students can provide to volunteer docents. Photo by Jennifer Coombes

Students in the Summer Session Robotics class worked with data sets and then took a break outside of Tutt Science Center. Left to right: Paul Price ’20, A.W. Antonoff-Wertheimer ’20, Tian Lee ’20, Cat Gill ’20 and Clifford Chirwa ’20. Photo by Jennifer Coombes

Introduction to Journalism class trip to Washington, DC

Sam Seymour ’22 (from left), Max Chiaramonte ’20, Jamie Bechta ’20, Robert Schilling ’20, and Troy Conzo ’21, pose for a photo in front of the Washington Monument on an Introduction to Journalism class trip to Washington, DC. Photo by Lydia Thompson

On May 11th, CC held its annual Music and Arts Festival Llamapalooza. Students were able to spend the day indulging in the music of visiting artists and two student bands. Photo by Chidera Ikpeamarom ’22