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Both ceremonies will be held in person at 9 a.m. at Weidner Field in downtown Colorado Springs.
Jill Tiefenthaler, former Colorado College president and current CEO of National Geographic, will be the commencement speaker for the 2021 class, and Richard Lariviere, former CEO of Chicago’s Field Museum, will be the speaker for the 2020 class.
CC assistant professors Nadia Guessous and Michael Sawyer will give the baccalaureate addresses for the 2021 and 2020 classes, respectively. Both addresses will be delivered virtually, according to the release.
The college will award honorary degrees to Tiefenthaler, Lariviere and several other individuals who have made noteworthy contributions in their respective fields: Fania E. Davis; Eiko Otake; Denise S. Young; 1972 CC graduate Margaret Elise Myers; Scott Yoo; Gloria Ladson Billings; Katherine Haughey Loo; and Tink Tinker.
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April 28, 2021 at 12:46 pm
Nobody alive today remembers a time before we knew the Neanderthals. Yet their discovery happened very recently in the wider context of human history – barely five generations back. 1856 is the official Neanderthal “ground zero”, when bones materialised in a cloud of clay clods and black powder from the Feldhofer cave, near Düsseldorf in Germany.
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recognised find. Nearly three decades earlier, a Neanderthal skull-top had been discovered in a Belgian cave, but its unusual anatomy was less obvious because it was a child. In 1848 yet another skull emerged, this time from near the Forbes military battery on Gibraltar. This nearly became the “type” fossil for the species. But its true significance only became clear just after the Feldhofer find had been given a scientific moniker: