Recent Press Releases

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Naropa University and the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics Present Poet Alice Notley
1/30/2012

Naropa University’s Somatic Counseling Psychology Program presents the 16th Annual Somatic Arts Scholarship Concert: “These Bodying Waters”
1/3/2012

Naropa University Presents Pulitzer Prize Winner Gary Snyder, November 16-17, 2011
10/10/11

Dr. Stuart C. Lord Steps Down as President of Naropa University. Former Naropa President John Whitehouse Cobb named as Acting President
10/6/11

Judith Simmer-Brown Elected as Faculty Trustee
9/28/11

EPA Recognizes Naropa University Among Nation's Leading Green Power Purchasers
9/21/11

Naropa Community Art Studio – International partners with Transitions Global
9/14/11

William Shakespeare's The Tempest meets Indie Rock at Naropa
9/14/11

Google’s Chade-Meng Tan, “Jolly Good Fellow” to speak at Naropa University on “Mindfulness at Work: Google Did It. You Can Too.”
8/16/11

Dr. Carol A. Blackshire-Belay Selected to Serve
as Interim Provost for Naropa University
7/18/11

Naropa University Summer Writing Program Co-hosts “Moving Images” Poetry and Film Symposium with the University of Colorado

5/16/11

Naropa University President Stuart. C. Lord Announces the Appointment of Barbara Catbagan as the Special Advisor to the President for Diversity.
5/18/11

Naropa Board of Trustees Elects New Chair

5/12/11

Naropa Appoints Renowned Buddhist Scholar to Board of Trustees

5/11/11

Sawagi! Boulder Artists Raise a Ruckus to Bring Clean Water to Japanese
Earthquake Victims

4/18/11

Naropa University Welcomes Poet/Activist Ernesto Cardenal on April 24
4/18/11

Governor Howard Dean, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee and Founder of “Democracy for America,” to speak at Naropa University Spring 2011 Commencement
3/18/11

Naropa University’s MFA in Theater: Contemporary Performance Program Presents 10 Original Works.
3/3/11

Dr. Carolyn Jacobs, Smith College of Social Work Dean, Joins Naropa University Board of Trustees
2/25/11

Lyn Hejinian Named 2011 Visiting Fellow at Naropa University
Free, Open events offered as part of week-long celebration of poetry
2/15/11

Dr. Peter Senge to speak at Naropa University’s Emerging Paradigms for Leadership: What’s Needed Now? Symposium
1/31/11

Sharon Salzberg to Speak at Naropa
1/18/11

Somatic Arts Scholarship Concert
1/10/11

Jill Grammer Joins Naropa as VP for Development and External Relations
12/8/2010

Battle of the Bottle – Green Team at Naropa University Leads Initiative to Make Campus Bottled Water Free
11/23/2010

Naropa University MFA in Contemporary Performance Department Presents
Mad Forest: A Play from Romania by Caryl Churchill
11/5/10

Naropa University President Stuart Lord Announces Cabinet Appointments
10/14/10

Naropa University Receives $1.9 Million Title III Grant, the Largest Single Grant
in Its History
10/6/10

Beat Poet Allen Ginsberg's Resurgence
9/15/10

Naropa University President Stuart Lord and Leadership Expert Susan Skjei to speak on international management panel in Montréal
8/3/10

Naropa University Institutes Strategic Budget Reductions and Investments
6/15/10

Buddhism and Psychology: The Art of Counseling Conference
5/25/10

Naropa Earns Green College Award From Princeton Review
4/23/10

Senior Student Art Exhibit, "Bodily Nectar and Aberrant Explorations" Opens at Naropa
4/22/10

Congressman Jared Polis to Speak at Town Hall
4/2/10

Melanne Verveer, Ambassador-at-Large for the State Department’s Global Women's Issues  Office to Speak at Naropa Commencement
4/1/10

Building Peace in a Stormy World with Dr. Paula Green, Leading International Peacemaker
3/22/10

Naropa University Students Explore Death Penalty as part of the National Dead Man Walking School Theatre Project
3/17/10

Stuart Sigman Appointed as Provost of Naropa University
3/16/10

Naropa University Presents Steven Batchelor Book Signing and Talk "Confession of a Buddhist Atheist"
3/10/10

Naropa University Jack Kerouac School Co-Sponsors AWP Conference
3/5/10

Naropa University Accreditation Self-Study is Complete, University Prepares for Higher Learning Commision Visit
3/4/10

Naropa University Hosts Benefit for Haiti: World Music Concert
2/26/10

Naropa University Hosts Benefit for Burmese Orphans and Student Fundraiser for Nicaraguan School
2/22/10

Naropa University Welcomes New Chief Administrative Officer and Member of Leadership Team
2/12/10

Naropa University Adjunct Music Faculty, Mickey Houlihan Receives 2010 Grammy Award
2/4/10

Naropa University Jack Kerouac School Publishes Bombay Gin Literary Journal
1/28/10

Naropa University Announces New Board of Trustees Member, Jerry Colonna
1/27/10

Naropa University President Speaks About Human Rights on MLK Day
1/11/10

Naropa University Educators Assist Bhutan in Overhauling its Educational System
1/5/10

Naropa University 2010 Summer Writing Program
12/21/09

Naropa University 14th Annual Somatics Arts Scholarship Concert
12/14/09

Naropa University Launches Budget Initiative
12/7/09

Naropa University Book Signing Featuring Professors Karen Kissel Wegela and Gaylon Ferguson
12/3/09

Naropa University Ceremony to Honor Fall Graduates Hosts Guest Speaker, Dan Montgomery Management Consultant, Sustainable Business Practice Advocate
12/3/09

Naropa Dean of Admissions Elected President of Regional College Counseling Association
11/12/09

Inauguration Weekend Includes "Naropa Dialogues" Interfaith Discussion
10/14/09

Naropa University Presidential Inauguration Presents a Day of Service and Learning
10/14/09

Naropa University Sets New Fiscal Year Fundraising Record
10/12/09

Luminous Emptiness, a Multimedia Production Illustrating The Tibetan Book of the Dead, to be Performed at Naropa University
9/11/09

Naropa University Prepares for Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace Laureate
8/28/09

Naropa University Celebrates 35th Academic Year with New Developments, Personalities, and Objectives
8/21/09

Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi, Symposium on "Women's Leadership and Activism in the Muslim World" Coming to Naropa University
8/12/09

Anne Waldman’s Newly Released Book of Poetry Manatee/Humanity
07/21/09

Naropa University Announces New Contemplative-Based Gender and Women's Studies Minor for Fall 2009
07/17/09

Naropa University Hosts Annual Wilderness Therapy Symposium
07/15/09

New Anthology, “Beats at Naropa,” Chronicles Kerouac School and its Personalities
07/07/09

New President's Arrival
06/30/09

Naropa Announces Appointment of New President
04/10/09

Naropa Press Conference
04/08/09

Author of Dead Man Walking to Speak at Naropa University
04/07/09

Planetize the Movement with Activist Poet Drew Dellinger
04/07/09

Oregon's Poet Laureate, Lawson Indada, to Give Reading with Andrew Schelling 04/03/09 (Postponed)

Roshi O'Hara to Deliver Lenz Lecture on Buddhist Studies
03/24/09

Naropa's Afro-Pop Ensemble to Perform at BaoBao Festival
02/24/09

Abacus Wealth Partners CEO to Speak at Naropa
02/09/09

Production of Trojan Women Scheduled for February
01/27/09

Tuvan Throat-Singing Group Tyva Kyzy to Perform at Naropa University
01/16/09

13th Annual Somatic Arts Scholarship Concert Builds Theme Around Chalk
01/14/09

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