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“Maybe it’s because of the nice, sanitized way in which we consume sport as an audience,” says Sarah Fields, who studies how sports intersects with American culture. She says sports thrive on “our innate, maybe human desire — but certainly American desire — for fairness.” “It’s a standardized field with...

During this Fall 2024 Semester, English Instructor Matthew Jellick, working with the International College of Beijing (ICB) program in Beijing, China, started a Book Club for students. The group read Gabrielle Zevin’s novel Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. Meeting bi-weekly at a local coffeehouse in Beijing, students and faculty discussions...

Jennifer Hathaway won the student poster contest at GIS in the Rockies ( http://gisintherockies.org/ ), a local conference for GIS professionals. The poster is part of her thesis work examining queer women spaces in the 1970s and today. For the map of 1970s, Hathaway used a 1956 zoning map, digitized...

The field of communication is celebrating the profound contributions of Dr. Sonja K. Foss, Professor Emeritus of Communication at the University of Colorado Denver. Dr. Foss was the founding chair of the Department of Communication at the International College Beijing in 1999. Since joining the National Communication Association (NCA) in...

Dr. Hartmann's new book, Tourism, Memorials and Landscapes of Violence: Remembering the Holocaust and the Pacific War , focuses on tourism, memorial sites of the Holocaust and the Pacific War, and the management practices for the visitors that they attract. It provides an account of landscapes of violence as millions...