Arts & Humanities
Women make up only 30 percent of students in advanced philosophy classes and 17–24 percent of philosophy faculty nationwide. Outdated stereotypes appear to be driving the trend.
Members of the Cleveland Orchestra will work side by side with ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ students and faculty Sept. 11-13 during what has become one of the College of Music's most anticipated biennial events.
Colorado Shakespeare Festival director has teamed up with instructor Tyler Lansford on the belief that helping actors more fully understand classic rhetoric might help them better convey the full meaning of the play.
This year not only marks the 60th season of the Colorado Shakespeare Festival but also the first year of the Applied Shakespeare Certificate offered by ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ. Students spent the past two weeks immersed in all things Shakespeare.
The Center for Media, Religion and Culture (CMRC) at ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ has been awarded $500,000 from the Henry Luce Foundation to explore the changing nature of religious scholarship in the digital age.
Thompson. Eklund. Ritter. For the ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ College of Music, these are household names associated with a deep-seated love and selfless support of music. Now, you can add the name Roser to that list. Becky Roser, a longtime college supporter, recently created a $2 million endowment naming the Roser Piano and Keyboard Program.
There might be more than just hard work to people's successes in life. From an early age, those whose last name starts toward the beginning of the alphabet can have an advantage. The news is not so good for those with last names toward the end of the alphabet.
No one knows better than Grace Burns just what a difference a vision and a financial boost can mean to a young musician. Burns was one of 14 students to perform at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall in November. In support of opportunities like this, and in celebration of its 100th birthday, the college is embarking on its first major fundraising campaign called music+.
Andrea Ramsey, associate director of choral studies at ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ, seeks to raise awareness through music for the ongoing tragedy in Flint, Michigan, and tell the stories that may have been lost in the two years since the crisis began.
The “Play On!" project has commissioned playwrights, including women and writers of color, to translate a variety of Shakespeare plays into contemporary modern English. A group of ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ students and professors recently got to participate in a reading of two of those plays.