Arts & Humanities
- Two CU Boulder theater professors created guidelines for dealing with conflicts, reporting sexual harassment, handling violence and stage intimacy and maintaining basic health and safety for all artists.
- A global team of researchers led by a CU Boulder professor has received a $1.5 million National Science Foundation grant to study the classic-period collapse in Mesoamerica.
- Austin Okigbo, an associate professor of ethnomusicology, studies South African music created during epidemics. According to Okigbo, certain themes reverberate through periods of widespread illness.
- David Korevaar, professor of piano at CU Boulderās College of Music, uploaded videos of himself performing all 32 of Beethovenās sonatas on his YouTube channel in just 60 days.Ā
- With the Colorado Shakespeare Festival season and camps postponed, staff members have been busy adapting their community resources to a virtual format.
- Silent films werenāt actually silent. Now, students can study the music of this once prominent corner of American pop culture.
- As the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II approaches and airwaves begin to ļ¬ll with stories of distant battles won and the brave men who fought them, Kathleen M. Ryan, a documentary ļ¬lmmaker and associate professor of journalism,Ā is focused on the veteran women who helped make those victories possible.
- The Colorado Shakespeare Festival is releasing the lineup for its 2020 season, including larger than life remixes of classics, playing June 5 to Aug. 9.
- Student-athletes arenāt the only ones on campus who can be felled by injury. CU Boulderās College of Music is leading the charge to treat andāmore importantlyāto prevent repetitive injuries to musicians.
- The faculty director of CU Boulder'sĀ Center of the American West will be in New York Oct. 13 speaking as part of the festival's 20th anniversary event, discussing the legacy of President Donald Trump.