2023-24学年

Block 1 - 打开召开

第2座- 150 Years: An Occasion to Build a New Future? 

录于9月星期一. 下午3:30-5点.m. 凯瑟琳·莫尔曼剧院. "150 Years: An Occasion to Build a New Future?由小组成员苏珊·阿什利(Susan Ashley)主持, 迈克·坦纳, 还有24岁的莉莉·伯恩, 由Neena Grover主持, 教授, RNA生物化学家, 化学 & 生物化学.

Block 3 - 教师研讨会: Re搜索 on Mental Health at CC

A discussion around mental health and wellness at CC. 克丽丝蒂Erdal, 心理学教授, 和尚塔尔·菲格罗亚, 助理教授 of Sociology, discussed their own re搜索 on the mental health of the CC community. Much of their re搜索 was conducted by CC students about students, 社区, and the college’s response to mental health issues.

Block 4 - Defending Democracy Through Social Movements!

11月11日星期一加入我们. 下午3:30-5点.m. in Bemis Hall for a fascinating First Monday presentation from Srdja Popovic, Distinguished 访问ing Instructor in Political Science, Defending Democracy Through Social Movements!

从残酷的独裁统治, 比如伊朗和缅甸, 对“成熟的”民主国家, 比如匈牙利和波兰, values and institutions of democracy are in peril all over the world. Historic cases and contemporary dynamics clearly point out that the most successful way to defend it is through mass social non-violent movements.

第5区- 教师研讨会 - Dive into the Wisdom of Our 教师 Experts

For the Block 5 教师研讨会, we invite you to "Dive into the Wisdom of Our 教师 Experts" and listen to three 科罗拉多大学 professors present their re搜索 on environmental education, 法国文学, and inclusive everyday learning and living. Each presenter will share for 25 minutes and leave five minutes for Q&A. This is an opportunity to hear from CC's diverse and vibrant community, 了解世界，成长.

胡安·米格尔阿里亚斯, 助理教授, 教育部门, 将, "Transformative Possibility in Environmental Education." Juan will discuss his work on transformative possibility in environmental education, including a recent study on experiential courses and their influence on pro-environmental motivations. He will also share work on collaborative programming at CC and will seek input from our community on possibilities for interconnected environmental learning.

Varsha Koushik，数学助理教授 & Computer Science Department, 将, "Inclusive Everyday Learning and Living". People with disabilities face numerous challenges every day due to the lack of inclusive assistive technologies. Varsha's re搜索 focuses on creating customizable user interfaces that support everyday activities. 具体地说, Varsha and her students focused on two projects this summer: 1) creating contextualized communication devices for nonverbal individuals and 2) collaborative audio games for shared elementary math learning. 

Alistaire塔伦特, Associate 教授 of French, 将, "Fictions of Pleasure: The Putain Memoirs of Prerevolutionary France". Out of the libertine literary tradition of eighteenth-century France emerged over a dozen memoir novels of female libertines who eagerly take up sex work. Tallent 将 her argument—that these novels helped undermine the patriarchal hierarchies of the Ancien Régime and proposed a social model where women form networks of mutual support to achieve wealth and personal satisfaction.

Block 6 - Artificial Intelligence: Where are we, where are we going, and what does it all mean?

Join 教授s Blake Jackson, Ben Nye, and Cory Scott from the Computer Science Department on 星期一,2月. 下午3:30-5点.m. 在盖茨公地 as they outline the history and context of machine intelligence, fundamentals of how these systems work, what's happening at the cutting edge, and how we can strike a balance between powerful technology and social benefit. 你可以阅读更多关于 event details and the presenters here.

〇第7街区 教师研讨会: 

Two CC faculty members share their re搜索 in the fields of organismal biology and ecology and molecular biology.

助理教授 of Molecular Biology Meredith Course presents “A Cryptic Code in Alzheimer Disease.” In her team’s work to unravel the complex causes of Alzheimer disease, 他们发现了一本小说, cryptic exon that is specifically expressed in individuals with the disease. 

助理教授 of Organismal Biology and Ecology Roxaneh Khorsand presents, “It’s Getting Hot Up There! The effects of experimental warming on Arctic plant-pollinator interactions and 花的奖励.” Dr. Khorsand’s talk synthesizes the work CC students have done to quantify the effects of short- and long-term warming on flowering patterns, 授粉, 花的奖励, and plant reproductive success in northern Alaska.