Colorado College News

Chloe Agenor ’27 is headed to Germany and Kevin Menendez Mejia ’28 is Africa-bound, thanks to the Gilman Program. Since 2001, the U.S. Department of State’s Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program has provided merit-based scholarships to over 45,000 U.S. undergraduate students, to participate in global internships and study abroad programs. Agenor will use her Gilma...

Colorado College students make a difference in the world, often starting in their local communities—and their collaborative spirit changed the work of Hyungyu Kim ’27 from the moment he stepped on campus. During his gap year between high school and CC, Kim founded a clothing brand to raise money for charitable causes. Kim, who was interested in graphic design, grew up in a low-i...

Seeing a need to connect CC students with local businesses, Kyle Kihlberg ’29 and Nick Brashear ’29 created PeakAssist—a student-led program that links Colorado Springs businesses with CC students through structured marketing internships. “The benefit to the Colorado Springs community and students at CC is at the heart of what we're building,” Kihlberg says. “PeakAssist creates ...

Bernadette Latham ’27 is one of only 454 students across the United States to be awarded a 2026 Barry Goldwater Scholarship. “It’s incredibly empowering to be identified as a part of 'the nation’s next generation of research leaders,'” says Latham, a Neuroscience major and Global Health and Human Biology and Kinesiology double minor. “Winning this award has strengthened my motiv...

For Mary Reinbold ’25, earning a Princeton in Asia (PiA) Fellowship to teach in Japan before starting medical school marks a return to her early influences. Growing up in Alaska, Reinbold received an unconventional education in the Anchorage School District Japanese Immersion Program, where she spent half her days learning core subjects—like math and history—entirely in Japanese...