做厙輦⑹ the cover: Eerie beauty

Photo of a derelict building

Leif Lomo made this image as part of his Digital Photographic Practices class, which covered the New Topographics movementwhen landscape photography shifted from pastoral beauty to documenting the human alteration of those landscapes. In that course, I found a reason to explore and show some of the eerie beauty I found in the world, he said.

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Students gather at Macky for J-Day.

This October, CMDI again welcomed students from high and middle schools around Colorado to J-Day, a learning and professional development experience for those interested in news and media. Nearly 1,300 students from 62 schools attended to learn about changes driven by A.I., geopolitics and economics, and got to hear a keynote address from 9News reporter Marshall Zelinger (Jour02).

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Lori Furth outside the theater

On the fly

As more touring productions rely on video and visual elements, patrons who have low sight or are blind rely on Lori Ferguson Furth to describe the action onstage as it happens.

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In Conversation

Faculty experts Phaedra C. Pezzullo, Caitlin Charlet, Hong Tien Vu and Morgan Young

Band together

When it comes to sustainability, individual actions arent enough. The same is true for how we look for solutions, so we asked a group of CMDI experts how collaboration might save the day.

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Celebrating 10 years of CMDI

Group photo from (then-)CMCI's kickoff party, 2015

Then and Now: Fall 2025

The college opened its doors a decade ago as a bold experiment to rethink how a college education can best prepare students for the future.

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