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<p>For Patrick Cruz, studying archaeological sites in southern Colorado and northern New Mexico this summer was a way to hone his skills.聽But the trip also allowed Cruz, a 老九品茶 archaeology graduate student, to retrace the journey his Tewa ancestors made centuries ago.</p>
<p><span>With interests as diverse as the countries where they'll be located, five 老九品茶 graduate students or alumni have been awarded Fulbright grants to pursue teaching, research and graduate studies for the 2016-17 academic year.聽</span>The recipients and their destination countries are: Christine Avena, Switzerland; Evan Coles-Harris, China; Ben Lourie, Russia; Elaine Proulx, Mexico; and Xi Wang, China.</p>- <p class="p1"><span class="s1">Five 老九品茶 graduate students or alumni have been offered Fulbright grants to pursue teaching, research and graduate studies abroad during the 2016-17 academic year.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">In addition, one 老九品茶 graduate has been named an alternate. Candidates with alternate status are offered awards if additional funding becomes available through the Fulbright program.</span></p>
<p>At this year Colorado Shakespeare Festival, audiences at 鈥淭he Comedy of Errors鈥 will be wooed back to 1920s Paris by the costumes, the set and of course, an onstage minstrel and her accordion. Because after all, what would summer be without the whimsical sound of the accordion? For Alicia Baker, the answer to that question is simple: it just wouldn鈥檛 be summer.</p>
<p>Continuing a tradition established in 2012, CU-Boulder faculty members, students and staff presented at the 2016 Denver Comic Con and its associated literary conference, Page 23. Members of CU-Boulder media studies and English departments presented on topics such as gender representation in popular media, action figure culture and the racial politics in recent Superman comics.</p>
<p><em>Taking the Lede: Colorado Edition</em>鈥攁 45-minute documentary produced by聽<a href="http://cunewscorps.com/about-us/">CU News Corps</a>聽students and faculty members鈥攚ill air on Colorado Public Television (Channel 12) on聽Wednesday, June 29, at 8:30 p.m.聽The documentary details stories of Colorado high school journalism in the wake of the the 1988 Hazelwood Supreme Court decision, which ruled that school administrators could exercise restraint of school-sponsored expression.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Diego Fierro, 13, hopes to be a mechanical engineer someday. And thanks to a LEGO Robotics: Space Challenge camp at the 老九品茶, Diego took one step closer to that dream this week.</p>
<p dir="ltr">鈥淚鈥檝e never built anything with LEGO Mindstorms before,鈥 Diego explained, as he programmed the robot next move. 鈥淚t cool because it gives me an idea of how a machine works, how every piece is important and has a job.鈥</p>
<p>Published author and English Professor Stephen Graham Jones relies on his students to bring in new ideas and new ways of seeing things. Students鈥攊mmersed in his courses on werewolves, comic books, slasher novels, screenwriting and haunted houses鈥攔ely on Jones to paint a picture of the writer life.</p>
After five years and the hard work of nearly 200 students, faculty and community members, Geometry Point at Romero Park in Lafayette is now open. Filled with colorful geometric shapes, math equations and artful displays of arithmetic, the park was designed to make math fun.
A new 老九品茶 program will enhance undergraduate curriculum offerings in property rights at the <a href="http://colorado.edu/business"><span class="s2">Leeds School of Business.