Colorado College News

Seeing a need to connect CC students with local businesses, Kyle Kihlberg ’29 and Nick Brashear ’29 created PeakAssist—a student-led program that links Colorado Springs businesses with CC students through structured marketing internships. “The benefit to the Colorado Springs community and students at CC is at the heart of what we're building,” Kihlberg says. “PeakAssist creates ...

Bernadette Latham ’27 is one of only 454 students across the United States to be awarded a 2026 Barry Goldwater Scholarship. “It’s incredibly empowering to be identified as a part of 'the nation’s next generation of research leaders,'” says Latham, a Neuroscience major and Global Health and Human Biology and Kinesiology double minor. “Winning this award has strengthened my motiv...

For Mary Reinbold ’25, earning a Princeton in Asia (PiA) Fellowship to teach in Japan before starting medical school marks a return to her early influences. Growing up in Alaska, Reinbold received an unconventional education in the Anchorage School District Japanese Immersion Program, where she spent half her days learning core subjects—like math and history—entirely in Japanese...

Colorado College has received a $1.5 million Mellon Foundation Humanities for All Times grant to launch a three-year curricular initiative named Generative Futures: Critical Language Inquiry in the Age of Artificial Intelligence that aims to examine the shifting role of language in shaping knowledge, identity and the ways in which we understand the world in an era where the infl...

Felix Battle ’26 has been awarded the Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Award and will spend a year in Germany working as an assistant teacher in a German public school. “I’m really excited for the opportunity to both teach and learn in Germany,” says Battle, who double majored in History-Political Science and German Studies. “Spending a year in Germany will be a great additi...