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Colorado Shakespeare Festival director has teamed up with instructor Tyler Lansford on the belief that helping actors more fully understand classic rhetoric might help them better convey the full meaning of the play.

This year not only marks the 60th season of the Colorado Shakespeare Festival but also the first year of the Applied Shakespeare Certificate offered by ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder. Students spent the past two weeks immersed in all things Shakespeare.

The Center for Media, Religion and Culture (CMRC) at ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder has been awarded $500,000 from the Henry Luce Foundation to explore the changing nature of religious scholarship in the digital age.

Thompson. Eklund. Ritter. For the ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder College of Music, these are household names associated with a deep-seated love and selfless support of music. Now, you can add the name Roser to that list. Becky Roser, a longtime college supporter, recently created a $2 million endowment naming the Roser Piano and Keyboard Program.

There might be more than just hard work to people's successes in life. From an early age, those whose last name starts toward the beginning of the alphabet can have an advantage. The news is not so good for those with last names toward the end of the alphabet.

No one knows better than Grace Burns just what a difference a vision and a financial boost can mean to a young musician. Burns was one of 14 students to perform at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall in November. In support of opportunities like this, and in celebration of its 100th birthday, the college is embarking on its first major fundraising campaign called music+.

Andrea Ramsey, associate director of choral studies at ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder, seeks to raise awareness through music for the ongoing tragedy in Flint, Michigan, and tell the stories that may have been lost in the two years since the crisis began.

The “Play On!" project has commissioned playwrights, including women and writers of color, to translate a variety of Shakespeare plays into contemporary modern English. A group of ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder students and professors recently got to participate in a reading of two of those plays.

With the new Consortium of Doctoral Studies in Literatures and Cultures, ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder is improving support for doctoral students in its six literature Ph.D programs: French and Italian; Spanish and Portuguese; German; classics; English; and Japanese and Chinese.

Thanks to a team of undergraduate students, ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder now has an innovative new iPad app for kids, extending the international educational footprint of the PhET Interactive Simulations project and its award-winning collection of science and math simulations.