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Pedal power ranging from aging French racers to an adult-sized “Big Wheel” tricycle brought more than 200 faculty, staff and students to Bike Jam festivities Thursday on El Pomar Plaza. Even smoothies were made with (More)
Chancellor Pam Shockley-Zalabak told the members of the Class of 2017 to embrace uncertainty Wednesday during Freshman Convocation. In a departure from recent years, Shockley-Zalabak took the podium to address the record-breaking freshman class and a sprinkling (More)
More than 1,200 students moved in to the UCCS residence halls Aug. 20-23. Showing up as early as 7:30 a.m. on Aug. 20, freshman housing students and their families eagerly unloaded vehicles and carried boxes (More)
About 100 UCCS faculty, staff and students attended a Aug. 5 ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the completion of UCCS’s newest residence halls, Copper and Eldora. “This is what progress and fulfillment of our mission is all (More)
More than 60 UCCS and Colorado Springs community leaders watched a final piece of structural steel be lifted into place atop the Lane Center for Academic Health Sciences at a “topping off” ceremony July 22 near the intersection (More)
A chance dinnertime conversation turned into a $677,091 National Science Foundation grant for two professors of biology, one at UCCS and one at Colorado College. Eugenia Olesnicky Killian, assistant professor, Department of Biology, and Darrell (More)
A harvest of butter crunch lettuce, arugula, Bok choy, baby beets, beet greens, daikons, mint, kale, chamomile, tarragon, and chives from the Yawn Valley Student Garden was offered to faculty, staff and students Wednesday morning (More)
About 800 spring graduates participated in formal commencement exercises on May 24 at the World Arena. For the first time in UCCS history, colleges were split between two commencement ceremonies to accommodate the large class size and to ensure that (More)
Colorado Springs Mayor Steve Bach presented a Spirit of the Springs Award to members of the national champion UCCS Inline Hockey team Friday morning during a brief ceremony at the Campus Recreation Center. Bach presented (More)
Five university vice presidents from China’s Jiangsu Province learned important lessons during an almost four-month stay at UCCS. Zhang Qintang, 41, a vice president at Jiangyin Polytechnic College, drew chuckles as he demonstrated his new (More)