It’s that time of year again. CMC professor and astrophotographer Jimmy Westlake has created another edition of his annual Cosmic Calendar. The 2013 version, titled the “Year of the Comet,” is now available for purchase. Chock full of Westlake’s unique and beautiful celestial images, the calendar also keeps you alerted to the cosmic highlights of… Continue reading 2013 Cosmic Calendars are here!
Category: CMC In The News
CMC offers dress rehearsal for Thanksgiving dinner
Holiday culinary classes also include gingerbread workshop This CMC Corner column first appeared in the Glenwood Post Independent. By Beth Zukowski. If you’re hosting Thanksgiving this year and you’re already feeling the stress, Colorado Mountain College in Glenwood Springs offers a way to help. Deb Martin teaches “The Great Thanksgiving Dinner,” a six-hour cooking seminar… Continue reading CMC offers dress rehearsal for Thanksgiving dinner
Opening doors
College secures $2.6 million in grants; Upward Bound to serve Lake, Eagle counties for five more years This article first appeared in the Vail Daily. GYPSUM, Colorado — “Before Upward Bound, I didn’t really have goals or think about how to achieve them,” said Emma Niswonger, a senior at Eagle Valley High School in Gypsum.… Continue reading Opening doors
CMC Nursery would provide wetlands, forest plants
This article was first published in the Pueblo Chieftain. By Chris Woodka. Colorado Mountain College wants to start a high-country nursery near Leadville that could help provide trees for fire-damaged areas or plants to use in wetlands projects. The college wants to set up a solar greenhouse, a shade house to harden plants and an… Continue reading CMC Nursery would provide wetlands, forest plants
A ‘greening up’ update from CMC in Rifle
Campus Vice President Nancy Genova’s Corner Column, below, first appeared in yesterday’s Rifle Citizen & Telegram. Campus Sustainability Day was celebrated on Oct. 24 throughout the United States. At Colorado Mountain College, we are one of hundreds of colleges and universities making a difference where sustainability is concerned. Recently, the college submitted our Climate Action… Continue reading A ‘greening up’ update from CMC in Rifle
CMC’s entrepreneurship center gets fresh start in new professional digs
This article first appeared in the Steamboat Pilot & Today. By Tom Ross. Steamboat Springs — Seemingly every office in the new academic center at Colorado Mountain College has a great view of Steamboat Ski Area, and the Yampa Valley Entrepreneurship Center is no exception. The message scrawled there on a dry-erase board in one… Continue reading CMC’s entrepreneurship center gets fresh start in new professional digs
Our View: CMC building good for the community
The following editorial about the value of Colorado Mountain College’s new academic center to the community of Steamboat Springs appeared in last weekend’s Steamboat Pilot. Thursday’s grand opening of Colorado Mountain College’s spectacular new academic center overlooking Steamboat Springs is an achievement that stands to benefit the community for decades to come. The 60,000-square-foot building… Continue reading Our View: CMC building good for the community
CMC starts new chapter in Steamboat with opening of building
This article first appeared in the Steamboat Today. By Scott Franz Steamboat Springs — As she looked up and admired the atrium of the new academic center at Colorado Mountain College’s Alpine Campus on Thursday night, Bonnie Bogue was thinking about her mom. “In my heart, I know she would have loved this building,” Bogue… Continue reading CMC starts new chapter in Steamboat with opening of building
New programs aim to ease transition to Re-2 four-day school week
This article first appeared in the Rifle Citizen Telegram. By Nelson Harvey. As summer wanes, parents of students in Rifle, Silt and New Castle scramble to plan for the four-day school week that begins Monday with the start of the Garfield School District Re-2 2012-13 school year. And in recent weeks, several area businesses and… Continue reading New programs aim to ease transition to Re-2 four-day school week
College students gain leadership skills through new work program
This article was first published in the Summit County Business Journal. By Kim Marquis. Students in a new Colorado Mountain College internship program not only gained work experience this summer but also learned how to get things done independently on the job. Sustainability major Ashlee Andrews, a junior, earned three credits and a $500 scholarship… Continue reading College students gain leadership skills through new work program