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REEES major, Elizabeth (Libby) Chen, was one of the two moderators for CU’s Distinguished Speakers Board event with chess grandmaster and political activist Garry Kasparov. Garry Kasparov gave a talk on October 8, 2024 in Macky Auditorium to a crowd of students, faculty, staff, and community members. Kasparov fielded questions...

German program faculty member, Helmut Muller-Sievers, was featured in the Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine .

Mathias Nordvig, a professor in Nordic Studies, was featured in the Arts & Sciences Ampersand podcast which discussed animism, Norse mthology and what it means to live on Earth. View the full story and listen to the podcast here .

Nordic faculty member, Avedan Raggio, was featured in the Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine for her class on Tolkien's Nordic Sources.

Russian alumna and faculty member Elizabeth Shevchenko Wittenberg was featured in the Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine . Our Wittenberg scholarship was named after this Ukrainian woman who was born in China and lived in Japan. Read this story to learn more about her life, including her experiences as a...

Congratulations to Professor Artemi Romanov for receiving the 2023 Faculty and Staff Integrity Award, a CU Boulder Involvement Award given by The Center for Student Involvement and the Colorado Creed. The CU Involvement Awards is a free and open event that celebrates students, student organizations, faculty and staff who exemplify...

Congratulations to Prof. Lauren Stone who received the Graduate School’s 2022-2023 Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award. Lauren was nominated for this award by one of her thesis advisees, with letters of support written by German Program students, alums and the department chair.

CU alumna of the Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies program Daria Molchanova was featured in the Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine article "Russia retools Soviet propaganda against Ukraine, expert says."

Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Program at CU congratulates the winners of its 2023 Undergraduate Conference: Elizabeth Crim (Majors: REES and Spanish; Minor: Art History), “Representing Generations of Violence against Women: Ukrainian Ornamental Motifs and Collage in the War-Time Works of Maria Siniakova and Dana Kavelina” Derek Plott (Major:...

The Russian Program, University of Colorado Boulder announces the official change of our program name, as well as our BA and MA degrees, to Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies. Our program acronym is now REEES (with three E’s). The four-letter course code for our culture courses taught in English...