Arts & Humanities
- Director of Bands Don McKinney, jazz alumna Tia Fuller (MM '00) and opera alumnus Wei Wu (MM and PC '13) were all listed among the 2019 Grammy Award nominees, announced on Dec. 7.
- Using advanced digital imaging technology, professor and archaeologist Dimitri Nakassis is pioneering new techniques to study ancient Greece.
- This fall, the College of Music returns to Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York for a captivating performance showcasing some of the college's most accomplished students.
- This fall, the College of Music is joining a worldwide celebration of acclaimed composer Leonard Bernstein as it presents CU Bernstein at 100.
- Sarah Kurnick and students are working on a community archaeology project at Punta Laguna, a site of significant cultural importance to the contemporary Maya people who live there.
- Opening on June 22, Art & Art History Professor George Rivera has organized an art exhibit at South Korea's DMZ Museum roughly three miles south of the North Korean border.
- College of Music launching graduate certificate in arts administration, undergraduate minor in musicIn fall 2018, the College of Music will begin offering two new programs; both options will be open to non-music students, further broadening the scope of music study at CU 51´«Ã½.
- After a distinguished career spanning more than 40 years, founding second violinist of the Takács Quartet Károly Schranz will retire effective May 1. CU 51´«Ã½'s Harumi Rhodes has been appointed the new second violinist.
- Henry Lovejoy has been named the new director of an online resource that is "the main website" used by scholars, researchers and students for historical images of slavery.
- A world-renowned and historically important collection of artistic prints that has captured the imagination of artists and art lovers worldwide has officially found a home at the CU Art Museum.