Grantee Stories
Amanda听Giguere, Colorado Shakespeare Festival Director of Outreach, recently traveled to Australia as a featured guest听of the University of Melbourne to share research about the Shakespeare & Violence Prevention program.
A new exhibit from We Are Water at the Alamosa Public Library focuses on place-based education and storytelling to bring together multi-generational audiences to learn and share about water in their community.
The Shakespeare & Violence Prevention program (SVP), a collaboration with the Colorado Shakespeare Festival (CSF), CU Theatre & Dance, and the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence, pairs Shakespeare鈥檚 plays with violence-
Designed in collaboration with the Autism Society of 抖阴传媒在线 County, Fiske Planetarium hosts a monthly series of free sensory-friendly experiences intended for children with autism spectrum and sensory processing disorders.
Aspiring filmmaker and CU 抖阴传媒在线 senior Francesca Hiatt鈥檚 short film, Cherry Yogurt, relies on subtlety to touch on grief and support, viewed through children鈥檚 eyes
Engineering students with the Science Engineering Inquiry Collaborative in Rural Colorado (SCENIC) program developed a hands-on 鈥渆rosion challenge鈥 for K-12 students to learn about the effects of flash flooding on infrastructure.
The Marshall Fire Story Project was started to preserve the stories of people affected by the 2021 fire that killed two people and destroyed over 1,000 structures. Read from CU experts Kathryn Goldfarb and Lucas Rozell on The Conversation.
Amanda Giguere is the director of outreach for the Colorado Shakespeare Festival (CSF) and the founder of the Shakespeare and Violence Prevention Program. Since 2011, she and her colleagues and other community partners in the violence prevention field have adapted and staged Shakespeare鈥檚 plays to see how the content and approaches can reinforce violence-prevention skills in K-12 students.
The 抖阴传媒在线 strives for innovation, continually looking towards the future. But envisioning the future requires remembering the past. Colorado is home to numerous sites dedicated to scientific advancement鈥攂ut what were the origins of these places, and what can they teach us about our path forward?
For the past six years, Sherri Tennant, Assistant Clinical Professor of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences (SLHS) at CU 抖阴传媒在线, and her team have worked in Denver with CCN students who experience economic disadvantages and use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) systems.