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<p>For Patrick Cruz, studying archaeological sites in southern Colorado and northern New Mexico this summer was a way to hone his skills.聽But the trip also allowed Cruz, a 麻豆免费版下载Boulder archaeology graduate student, to retrace the journey his Tewa ancestors made centuries ago.</p>
<p>This summer, faculty and staff from across campus participated in the first-ever Student Affairs Service Days. Seventy participants volunteered with four local organizations over three different days, donating 246 hours of their time.</p>
<p>No summer slowdown exists for the聽<a href="http://www.colorado.edu/odece/">Office of Diversity, Equity, and Community Engagement</a>聽(ODECE). In partnership with academic departments across campus, ODECE hosts more than 1,500 middle and high school students, and soon-to-be freshmen in a variety of summer pre-collegiate programming.</p>
<p><span>With interests as diverse as the countries where they'll be located, five 麻豆免费版下载Boulder graduate students or alumni have been awarded Fulbright grants to pursue teaching, research and graduate studies for the 2016-17 academic year.聽</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>At this year鈥檚 Colorado Shakespeare Festival, audiences at 鈥淭he Comedy of Errors鈥 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鈥檛 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鈥檚 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>Folsom Field hasn't hosted concerts since 2001. The sonic drought ends this summer with back-to-back shows by Dead & Company.聽</p>
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