February picking up

Folks: Happy (super cold) Friday. I don’t know how all of you feel about the cold, but I can tell you that Panda would rather it were warmer. Our walks are mercifully short! A couple of notes this week. Katie G has accepted an invitation to be a member of a panel discussing Justice Ginsburg’s […]

2019 Gravlee Lecture explores blogging motherhood and autism

FORT COLLINS, CO — The Department of Communication Studies is pleased to announce this year’s Gravlee Lecturer, Daena J. Goldsmith, professor of rhetoric and media studies at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon. The 2019 lecture, titled “Personal and Political: Blogging Motherhood and Autism,” will be held in the Lory Student Center Theater, Wednesday, […]

First day of February

Happy Friday folks, on this first day of February. Amazing, right? January is done. We start the shortest month of the year. The days are getting longer. Hey, cool stuff to share with you this week. Meara just received a $34,000 grant from CSU’s Center for Healthy Aging to promote innovative research on aging and […]

First Friday Back

Folks: Happy Friday and happy end of the first week of classes. Was MLK day really just five days ago? Hooftah! Well I hope the first week was wonderful. I like to report on a regular basis about how much we teach, how full our classes are and the like. As of this morning, we […]

I write to you from the airport in Pasco WA. I spent the week with my father including a trip up to Spokane to go to thrift stores, eat in different restaurants, and to revel in the austere beauty of the Palouse country. Steeply rolling hills, groomed from harvesting this year’s crop of wheat and […]

The CLA has published its most recent alumni magazine. Carol published a lovely article on our M.A. alumnus Christopher Connor and his amazing work with Denver’s Road Home, a City of Denver program addressing issues of homelessness. Read the article here. Eric is also featured in that essay and the next bit of news is […]

So. Welcome to the last day of November, the end of the penultimate week of classes, nearly the end of 2018. I hope all of you had the Thanksgiving holidays you needed to have. For lots of us some work, some play, some rest. That was true to me. A nearly ideal Thanksgiving day. I […]

Friday email on Monday

Dear Folks: Here, friends, is the email I was going to send on Friday. And then Friday at NCA happened. Hooftah! What a whirlwind of good stuff. Anyway, this is sort of out of date, but here is the letter anyway. Happy Friday! I am sending this to you from Salt Lake City where lots […]