Arts & Humanities
- CU Boulder Classics scholars Yvona Trnka-Amrhein and John Gibert identified previously unknown fragments of two lost tragedies by Greek tragedian Euripides.
- With the baseball season well underway, CU Boulder history professor Martin Babicz offers thoughts on why some fans remain loyal to baseball’s perennial losers.
- In a newly published story collection, The Rupture Files, Assistant Professor Nathan Alexander Moore explores identity and community in dystopian worlds.
- Whether in a somber performance in the National Portrait Gallery or in her wry takes on Native humor, Assistant Professor of art and art history Anna Tsouhlarakis follows her heart.
- Professor Carole McGranahan has long studied the Tibetan perspective of China’s invasion and occupation of Tibet, and with dogged research pinpointed the exact location of the CIA’s training of Tibetan soldiers to fight Chinese invaders—once a state secret. A commemoration will be held on June 9 at Camp Hale, Colorado.
- Associate Professor Markas Henry reflects on the sometimes vague or even non-existent line between clothing and show—a distintion that can blur at the annual Met Gala.
- A Research & Innovation Office grant program announced nearly $95,000 in combined funding for 17 projects exploring topics in disciplines from Asian languages and environmental design to composition and Classics.
- On International Dance Day, Erika Randall, a CU Boulder professor of dance, reflects on the popular advice that can apply to both dance and life.
- A team co-led by classics researcher Yvona Trnka-Amrhein unearthed the upper portion of a huge, ancient pharaonic statue whose lower half was discovered in 1930. Ramessess II was immortalized in Percy Bysshe Shelly’s “Ozymandia.”
- The College of Music’s Thompson Jazz Studies Program will be shaking up this year’s commencement ceremony with new takes on the timeless “Pomp and Circumstance,” reimagined in the styles of Latin jazz, New Orleans funk and big band swing.