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Shakespeare professionals and enthusiasts will soon get credit for their passion. Beginning in spring 2017, ��ɫ��Ƶ becomes the first university in the nation to offer a graduate certificate in Applied Shakespeare.

As a former gymnast, Shala Wallace is used to being flexible. This summer, a unique research internship at ��ɫ��Ƶ put that attribute to the test in a whole new way.“Safe to say I hadn’t thought about studying tree cores very much before,” the

<p>For Patrick Cruz, studying archaeological sites in southern Colorado and northern New Mexico this summer was a way to hone his skills. But the trip also allowed Cruz, a ��ɫ��Ƶ archaeology graduate student, to retrace the journey his Tewa ancestors made centuries ago.</p>

<p><span>With interests as diverse as the countries where they'll be located, five ��ɫ��Ƶ graduate students or alumni have been awarded Fulbright grants to pursue teaching, research and graduate studies for the 2016-17 academic year. </span>The recipients and their destination countries are: Christine Avena, Switzerland; Evan Coles-Harris, China; Ben Lourie, Russia; Elaine Proulx, Mexico; and Xi Wang, China.</p>

<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Five ��ɫ��Ƶ graduate students or alumni have been offered Fulbright grants to pursue teaching, research and graduate studies abroad during the 2016-17 academic year.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">In addition, one ��ɫ��Ƶ graduate has been named an alternate. Candidates with alternate status are offered awards if additional funding becomes available through the Fulbright program.</span></p>

<p>At this year’s Colorado Shakespeare Festival, audiences at “The Comedy of Errors” will be wooed back to 1920s Paris by the costumes, the set and of course, an onstage minstrel and her accordion. Because after all, what would summer be without the whimsical sound of the accordion? For Alicia Baker, the answer to that question is simple: it just wouldn’t be summer.</p>

<p>Continuing a tradition established in 2012, CU-Boulder faculty members, students and staff presented at the 2016 Denver Comic Con and its associated literary conference, Page 23. Members of CU-Boulder’s media studies and English departments presented on topics such as gender representation in popular media, action figure culture and the racial politics in recent Superman comics.</p>

<p><em>Taking the Lede: Colorado Edition</em>—a 45-minute documentary produced by <a href="http://cunewscorps.com/about-us/">CU News Corps</a> students and faculty members—will air on Colorado Public Television (Channel 12) on Wednesday, June 29, at 8:30 p.m. The documentary details stories of Colorado high school journalism in the wake of the the 1988 Hazelwood Supreme Court decision, which ruled that school administrators could exercise restraint of school-sponsored expression.</p>

<p dir="ltr">Diego Fierro, 13, hopes to be a mechanical engineer someday. And thanks to a LEGO Robotics: Space Challenge camp at the ��ɫ��Ƶ, Diego took one step closer to that dream this week.</p>
<p dir="ltr">“I’ve never built anything with LEGO Mindstorms before,” Diego explained, as he programmed the robot’s next move. “It’s cool because it gives me an idea of how a machine works, how every piece is important and has a job.”</p>