CMC ENews Archive

Tag: Faculty

  • Lindsey Thomson earns collegewide recognition

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    Edwards adjunct Faculty of Year named awardee for all CMC campuses On a recent Wednesday night, Colorado Mountain College President Dr. Carrie Besnette Hauser, along with several faculty and staff, burst into adjunct instructor Lindsey Thomson’s classroom in Edwards to surprise her with an announcement: She has been honored as adjunct Faculty of the Year…

  • Battle Mountain’s ProStart team making another national title run

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    CMC Culinary Assistant Heather Weems helps guide high school culinary students to success This article appeared in the Vail Daily. By Randy Wyrick. EDWARDS – Melissa Bosworth is about 5 feet 5 inches tall, but she knows how it must feel to slam dunk to beat Duke at the buzzer. Bosworth is part of Battle…

  • Women snowcat groomers carve the slopes at Summit County ski resorts

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    This article was published in The Summit Daily News. By Alli Langley. The sun disappeared behind the mountains at Copper Mountain Resort Saturday, March 29, and Debbie Caves climbed into her snowcat. She gripped the machine’s controls with both hands, feeling the way the cat’s arm met the walls of her halfpipe, checking her instruments…

  • Businesses lead valley toward sustainability

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    Kim Langmaid teaches sustainability studies at Colorado Mountain College. She’s also vice president and director of sustainability and stewardship programs at Walking Mountains Science Center. Langmaid’s column on the positive changes Vail Valley businesses are implementing to become more sustainable was published in the Vail Daily.  The countdown to the 2015 World Alpine Ski Championships has…

  • CMC culinary program featured in Sizzle! magazine

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    Tempted to try your hand at gnocchi? The secret’s in the dough. Colorado Mountain College Culinary Institute professor Kevin Clarke shared the steps of successful gnocchi-making in an article in the Spring 2014 issue of Sizzle! magazine. For a step by step guide, click here. Happy dining!    

  • Troubleshooting the fuel of the future

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    CMC adjunct Nick Harris researches ground-breaking energy technology This article was published in the March 2, 2014 Aspen Daily News. By Nelson Harvey. Nick Harris is a very slow dishwasher. And while his girlfriend at home may loathe him for it, such cautious deliberation has come to serve him well in the lab. On a…

  • Top instructor impresses students, colleagues

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    Conniff named Colorado Mountain College adjunct Faculty of Year for campus Colorado Mountain College instructor Michael Conniff sees his students in the Isaacson School for New Media as full partners in their own education, and his classes are designed to help them make substantive changes in their lives. Conniff’s hands-on, real-world approach paid off with…

  • Von Achen, Kocman earn teaching accolades

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    CMC Rifle campus names full-time, adjunct Faculty of the Year Bob Von Achen, instructor of English and literature at Colorado Mountain College in Rifle, went into teaching because he knew he would enjoy the analytical components – reading papers, employing his editing skills and offering textual insights. But within two weeks of classroom teaching, he…

  • Ketzenbarger, Halliwell earn teaching honors

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    CMC names Roaring Fork campus full-time, adjunct Faculty of Year When Gary Ketzenbarger’s Theatre Script Analysis class was interrupted recently, students thought the intruders might be part of a performance-art flash mob. A closer look revealed an enthusiastic group of administrators, instructors and staff members, some wearing masks made from a photo of Ketzenbarger’s face,…

  • Faculty Stories: Tim Widmer

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    Faculty are the heart of Colorado Mountain College. We’re featuring them all week in eNews via articles on CMC’s faculty and adjuncts of the year. We’ve also started a video series profiling a handful of additional faculty stories. Our first video shares ski and snowboard business faculty Tim Widmer’s passion for teaching and for Steamboat…