Month: April 2016

ASU helps 600 local families receive tax refunds

During the 2016 tax season, Adams State University partnered with the Denver-based Piton Foundation to provide free tax preparation assistance to low- to moderate-income families through the Tax Help Colorado program. At Adams State’s free tax site, IRS-certified students filed 603 returns, helping local tax payers claim $981,060 in refunds. This year, 28 students from […]

Adams State Pan American Day releases results

Sargent High School received first place, overall. Alamosa High School student Octavio Villaseñor and Sargent High School student Ana Serna received scholarships to Adams State University, valued at $600, during the annual Pan American Days, hosted by El Parnaso, the Adams State Spanish Club, on April 21. Overall results include Sargent High School, first place; […]

ASU sociology professor receives recognition

Article by Maya Ramirez ’16 Adams State University Associate Professor of Sociology Dr. Benjamin Waddell was named the 2016 Tom L. Popejoy Dissertation Prize recipient for his manuscript, "The Political Economy of Remittance-led Development in Guanajuato, Mexico." Waddell received his Ph.D. in Sociology, from the University of New Mexico (UNM). His dissertation, completed in 2013, […]

ASU Band Concert is May 1

The Adams State University Concert Band and Wind Ensemble Concert begins at 3 p.m. Sunday, May 1, in Richardson Hall Auditorium. The program will include the Concert Band performing Red Rock Fanfare by John Bogenschutz; As Summer Was Just Beginning by Larry D. Daehn; Festia by James Curnow; and other selections. The Wind Ensemble will […]

ASU creative writing public read is May 5

Leah McCromack will join senior creative writers for a reading on May 5. Adams State University creative writing seniors, Julia Cole, Jonathan Hazard, Shelby Rushing, Shelbee Sims, and Nicholas Spencer, will share their writings during the Capstone Reading Celebration at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 5, in McDaniel Hall room 201. Leah McCormack, assistant professor of […]

Meet experts in film and media industry

High Noon Productions will be on the Adams State campus as part of a panel discussion on film and the media industry on April 28. .Adams State University Community Partnerships will host the Colorado Office of Film, Television and Media, for their statewide road tour from 2:15 p.m. until 4 p.m. Thursday, April 28, in […]

ASU Student Scholar Days announces award recipients

Article by Maya Ramirez ’16 Photo by Daniel Parsons ’18.Azarel Madrigal presents her research. The ninth annual Adams State University Student Scholar Days took place April 7 and April 8. The conference included undergraduate students presenting orally, or with posters, on topics within their major. The public event included students from the sciences, history, political […]

Adams State Earth Week raises awareness to “Save the Planet”

A few of the 25 volunteers who collected trash along the Rio Grande bordering the campus on April 21. EARTH Coordinator Dr. Jared Beeton is at far left. "Save the Planet" was the theme of the ninth annual Earth Week celebration at Adams State University. Activities included a river clean-up, tree-planting, bake sale, Save the […]

ASU Spring Choir Concert is April 29

The Adams State University Chamber and Concert Choirs will perform at 7 p.m. Friday, April 29, in the Adams State Richardson Hall Auditorium. The concert will include Renaissance works by William Byrd and Pierre Passereau, arrangements of early American hymns by Philip Lawson and Alice Parker, songs of remembrance by Z. Randall Stroope and Donald […]

Star Wars and the Good Life is the final spring Faculty Lecture

Star Wars raises moral and metaphysical questions within that galaxy and in ours. The Adams State University Faculty Lecture, Star Wars and the Good Life, by Dr. George Backen, professor of philosophy, begins at 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 4, in Porter Hall room 130. Is it morally inconsistent for the Republic to outlaw slavery, but […]