Tag: Steamboat Springs
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Craig, Cox named CMC-Steamboat’s full-time, adjunct Faculty of the Year
Mathematics educators Stephen Craig and Lee Cox have been named 2015 full-time and adjunct, respectively, Faculty of the Year for Colorado Mountain College’s campus in Steamboat Springs. One of Craig’s students, Zack Greenberg, said in nominating his instructor, “He made me want to do my very best work for him as well as myself.” Another…
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Catch the Drift project debuts educational signs
Steamboat Springs — The Leadership Steamboat class of 2015 river stewardship project culminated earlier this month with the installation of four permanent educational signs along the Yampa River Core Trail and the river itself. The group installed the signs as part of the yearlong “Catch the Drift” project aimed at renewing enthusiasm for stewardship of…
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CMC art professor finds sudden success after Arkansas art show
This article was published in the Steamboat Pilot. By Teresa Ristow. Steamboat Springs — A Colorado Mountain College art professor is seeing sudden success in the professional art world following the display of his artwork in an Arkansas exhibit last year. About two miles of fiber are used for each of Allen’s sculptures, which are…
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Six men successfully complete canoe expedition across North America
This article was published in the Steamboat Today. By Audrey Dwyer. Steamboat Springs — The miles are far behind them and those unrelenting strokes for up to 18 hours a day are a distant memory. Now, eight months, 244 days, 12 states, four provinces, two territories, 11 rivers and roughly 5,230 miles later, the six…
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Breaking Silence exhibit at CMC this week
This article was published in the Steamboat Pilot & Today. By Teresa Ristow. Steamboat Springs — A unique exhibit called Breaking Silence is at Colorado Mountain College for the week and aims to start a dialogue about domestic violence and sexual assault. Visitors to the exhibit put on headphones to hear the difficult, true stories…
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Jimmy Westlake: The Equinox and the Harvest Moon
Jimmy Westlake’s Celestial News column appears Tuesdays in the Steamboat Today and is reprinted below. The season of autumn officially arrives for the northern hemisphere this year at 1:20 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 23, Colorado time. Our season of autumn begins the instant that the sun crosses the equator on its way south. Thanks to the…
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Tough life doesn’t deter Steamboat graduate heading for Colorado Mountain College
This article was published in the Steamboat Pilot & Today. By Mike McKibbin. Steamboat Springs — Thania Núñez may barely be an adult, age-wise, but her life story reads as that of one much older. The maturity she has gained over the years has led the recent Steamboat Springs High School graduate to earn one…
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Jimmy Westlake: Yampa River Star Party this Saturday
This coming Saturday evening, I will be conducting a summer stargazing event out at the Yampa River State Park campground, three miles west of Hayden on U.S. Highway 40, beginning at 9 p.m. This will be my second “Yampa River Star Party” event. and I am very excited about it! Last summer, we had a…
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Jimmy Westlake: Venus and Jupiter meet for spectacular conjunction
CMC astronomy and physics professor Jimmy Westlake’s “Celestial News” column appears weekly in the Steamboat Today newspaper. Anytime the night sky’s two brightest planets pass close to each other, it is a spectacular event worth watching. Venus, our dazzling “Evening Star,” has been flirting with Jupiter, the king of the planets, for several weeks now.…
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CMC student elected to national Amnesty International board
This article appeared in the Pilot and Today. By Teresa Ristow. Steamboat Springs — A Colorado Mountain College student is now the youngest member of Amnesty International USA’s Board of Directors. Molly Goldberg, 27, earned a place on the worldwide organization’s board election ballot via a campaign in which she collected 100 signatures of dues-paying…