Tag: Partnerships
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2013 Cosmic Calendars are here!
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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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‘Live in HD’ opera season features ‘Otello’ Oct. 27
Met Opera brings tale of jealousy and murder to CMC in Breckenridge The New York Metropolitan Opera production of Verdi’s Shakespearean drama “Otello” comes to Colorado Mountain College in Breckenridge as part of this year’s “Live in HD” simulcasts. Renée Fleming and Johan Botha star in the towering tragedy of jealousy and murder, which will…
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New grant supports new approach to solar education, training
Colorado Mountain College to create mobile training lab This article first appeared in the Citizen Telegram By Rob Winn This fall at Colorado Mountain College in Rifle we are preparing for a whole new era of learning that will allow us to improve the way we deliver our integrated energy programs, which prepare students for…
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CMC-Rifle features free showing of ‘Half the Sky’
New film aims to turn oppression into opportunity for women around the globe Colorado Mountain College in Rifle and Chevron kick off the third year of free PBS Community Cinema screenings on Sept. 28 with “Half the Sky,” the story of turning oppression into opportunity for women throughout the world. The linked problems of sex…
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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…
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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…
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Help Portrait
Last fall, students in CMC professor Steven G. Smith’s portrait photography class participated in the worldwide Help-Portrait movement, providing free portraits to Roaring Fork Valley families in need during the holiday season. The portraits were the basis for a short multimedia piece just posted on CMC’s YouTube channel: Catch a glimpse of this feel-good project…