Recent News and Events at Colorado College http://www.coloradocollege.edu/news_events/ Mon, 22 Aug 2011 8:44:16 MDT Copyright 2011, Colorado College Mon, 22 Aug 2011 8:44:16 MDT President Tiefenthaler Begins 'Year of Listening' Friday, July 8, 2011 at 5:00 pm http://blog.coloradocollege.edu/atb/2011/07/08/president-tiefenthaler-begins-year-of-listening/ Fri, 08 Jul 2011 17:06:00 MST http://blog.coloradocollege.edu/atb/2011/07/08/president-tiefenthaler-begins-year-of-listening/ CC joins National Collegiate Hockey Conference Wednesday, July 13, 2011 at 12:00 pm http://www.cctigers.com/news/2011/7/13/MHOCK_0713113001.aspx Wed, 13 Jul 2011 12:34:00 MST http://www.cctigers.com/news/2011/7/13/MHOCK_0713113001.aspx CC's Summer Reading Selection Highlighted by Chronicle of Higher Education Monday, June 6, 2011 at 2:00 pm Colorado College’s selection of “Ludlow” as summer reading for incoming first-year students has been highlighted in The Chronicle of Higher Education:  http://chronicle.com/article/Summer-Readings-A-Dark-Novel/128030/

 “Ludlow” is a novel in verse by David Mason, CC professor of English and the Colorado Poet Laureate. The book tells of Greek, Mexican, Scottish and Italian immigrants and their struggle to eke out a living in the mining camps of Southern Colorado. The book culminates with the Ludlow Massacre of April 1914, in which elements of the Colorado National Guard killed striking miners and their families.

The book was selected by CC because it can be read from multiple academic perspectives—literary, political, and economic among them—and because it offers a lens to examine contemporary issues like immigration policy and climate change. Here is what The Chronicle says about Colorado College’s selection:

Published in 2007, “Ludlow” was named best poetry book of the year by the Contemporary Poetry Review and the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum. It was also featured on “PBS News Hour” and won the Colorado Book Award for Poetry.  Mason won the 2009 Thatcher Hoffman Smith Creativity in Motion Prize from the University of Oklahoma College of Arts and Sciences for his collaboration on an opera adaptation of “Ludlow.”

]]> http://www.ColoradoCollege.edu/news_events/poster/view.asp?id=1538 Mon, 06 Jun 2011 14:59:00 MST http://www.ColoradoCollege.edu/news_events/poster/view.asp?id=1538 Welcome, New Students! Friday, June 10, 2011 at 11:00 am http://www.coloradocollege.edu/academics/FYE/newstudentorientation.asp Fri, 10 Jun 2011 11:20:00 MST http://www.coloradocollege.edu/academics/FYE/newstudentorientation.asp Paper Co-Authored by CC's Henry Fricke Provides Insights into Dinosaurs Monday, June 27, 2011 at 12:00 pm Researchers have developed a new way of determining the body temperatures of dinosaurs, providing new insights into whether dinosaurs were cold-or warm-blooded.

A paper co-authored by Colorado College Associate Geology Professor Henry Fricke discusses the techniques used to determine the body temperature of animals that have been extinct for 150 million years.

By analyzing the teeth of sauropods — long-tailed, long-necked dinosaurs that were the biggest land animals ever to have lived — the scientists found that these dinosaurs were nearly as warm as most modern mammals. The paper can be viewed at: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2011/06/22/science.1206196

The research was funded by the National Science Foundation's division of earth sciences

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