Graduate Student Edition - March 8, 2022
Events & Exhibits
Coffee and Conversations on Community Engagement March 17: Planning with partners
This spring, our series—designed for those interested in outreach and community-engaged research, teaching and creative work—will focus on partnership development: from reaching out to partners and solidifying equitable relationships to planning and achieving goals and assessing impact together.
Gov. Jared Polis to speak at graduation recognition ceremony
The University of Colorado Law School is pleased to announce Colorado Gov. Jared Polis will be the speaker for its graduation recognition ceremony, which will be held in person on May 6.
Explore the history of women in jazz March 29
Women have been involved in jazz since the early 1920s, not just as vocalistsÌýbut as instrumentalists, composers and arrangers. An understanding of jazz would not be complete without highlighting the influence and contributions of women—such as Bessie Smith, Valaida Snow, Mildred Bailey, Mary Lou Williams, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughn.
Talk March 12 to explore camping grounds—public nature in American history
A closer look at recreational camping reveals how its history and meanings are far from obvious. In the next CU on the Weekend lecture, Professor Phoebe Young will explore its unexpected and interwoven histories.
Campus Community
On lonely Boulder ‘prairie,’ Mary Rippon saw glory
Mary Rippon was a bona fide pioneer who became a CU icon, but CU almost did not become her home. When CU’s first president, Joseph Sewall, invited Rippon to teach at CU, which had just opened its doors in September 1877, Rippon initially declined.
This past December, three ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ researchers climbed up the side of the world’s highest active volcano, 22,615-foot Ojos del Salado, to understand how tiny organisms persist at one of the driest and highest points on the planet. This first-of-its-kind project may ultimately help inform the search for existing and extinct life on other planets.
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