Arts & Humanities
- Two Ƶ 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 Ƶ 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 Ƶ Boulder’s College of Music, uploaded videos of himself performing all 32 of Beethoven’s sonatas on his YouTube channel in just 60 days.
- With the Colorado Shakespeare Festival season and camps postponed, staff members have been busy adapting their community resources to a virtual format.
- Silent films weren’t 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 fill with stories of distant battles won and the brave men who fought them, Kathleen M. Ryan, a documentary filmmaker and associate professor of journalism, 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 aren’t the only ones on campus who can be felled by injury. Ƶ Boulder’s College of Music is leading the charge to treat and—more importantly—to prevent repetitive injuries to musicians.
- The faculty director of Ƶ Boulder's 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.