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NEST Studio for the Arts and NEST office manager Joanne Guillery received campuswide awards this month, celebrating the studio’s work on sustainability and Guillery’s achievements as a staff member.

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One hundred years ago, the University of Colorado Board of Regents voted to form the Department of Journalism and create a four-year journalism degree program. ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· the Department of Journalism’s centennial celebration website to learn more about the history of journalism education at CU and to share your own story!

Meet Strategic Communication student Taylor Cislo, director of Program Council.

As the crisis in Ukraine continues, TikTok has become a primary outlet for spreading information, causing some to refer to the conflict as TikTok's first war. Casey Fiesler, an assistant professor of information science, discusses the role TikTok is playing in the Ukraine crisis.

An investigative reporting series into the juvenile justice system in Rutherford County, Tennessee, won the 2022 Al Nakkula Award for Police Reporting. Produced by Nashville Public Radio’s Meribah Knight and ProPublica’s Ken Armstrong, the series revealed systemic injustice, sparked reform and demonstrated expert reporting on a secretive system.

Information Science student Priscilla Hopper won first place and was awarded $5,000 towards her venture, Notice.

Professor Ross Taylor turns a lens toward healing as the Boulder community recovers from last spring’s tragedy.

Women’s history snapshot: Lucile Berkeley Buchanan graduated in 1918 but wasn’t allowed to walk across the stage with other graduates because she was Black. History overlooked Lucile Berkeley Buchanan, the first African American woman to graduate from the University of Colorado. A dogged CU journalist brought her back to the fore. Tipped off by a newspaper story, Polly McLean, a ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· associate professor of media studies, spent years exhuming Buchanan’s story and, finally, correcting history.

Wood (StratComm’21) is competing as an alpine skier for the second time in the Paralympic Winter Games, which take place March 4-13.