Michelle P. Fulcher

Christopher Hill served as ambassador to four countries during a 33-year State Department career. He says President Trump repeatedly violated diplomatic norms in his dealings with Ukraine.

One of Colorado’s fiercest disabilities rights activists will be honored Thursday, posthumously. For decades, attorney Carrie Ann Lucas fought for parents and children with disabilities. She died earlier this year. The ACLU is recognizing her life’s work with the Carle Whitehead Memorial Award which is given to someone who has devoted significant time and resources to an important contemporary issue.

Here’s an unusual ride to work: “We’re going to hop on the icebreaker Polarstern in Norway and then we’ll sail out into the Arctic Ocean and eventually into the sea ice and kind of break our way in there a little bit and find a place to park and anchor ourselves to a chunk of ice that will be our home for a year.” That’s CU research scientist Matthew Shupe, who’s leaving Monday to live on the sea ice near the North Pole to study climate change.

The Air Force Academy wasn’t always located in Colorado Springs. Its first class was enrolled at Lowry Air Force Base in Denver until the southern facility was complete. The AFA chapel, currently undergoing renovation, brings to mind Lowry’s chapel which had a famous regular visitor. President Dwight Eisenhower worshiped there so often, it was eventually re-named after him.

Much of Colorado sweated through record heat last weekend. The state’s assistant climatologist, Becky Bolinger, says the fall outlook calls for temperatures to stay above average and a chance for more moisture than usual. We also asked Bolinger for a peek ahead at next winter and spring.

Colorado author Carter Wilson’s psychological thriller centers on what-ifs: What if you lost all your memories of childhood? What if getting them back put you at mortal risk? And, how important are memories, anyway? Wilson’s new book is “The Dead Girl in 2A.” The Erie-based author has won three Colorado book awards for his previous work.

It has the notorious distinction of being the first race riot in Denver’s history. It happened nearly 150 years ago, in what was then the city’s Chinatown. And it’s just one “moment in time” Colorado’s new state historian is eager to share. William Wei is a professor of history at the University of Colorado. He met us on a busy street corner in Lower Downtown, just across from Coors Field, to talk about this, and his goals as the state historian.

Slavery came to our shores 400 years ago this month, and it has shaped the United States ever since, including, it turns out, medical science. A new essay in The New York Times details how slaves were tortured in the name of medicine and how myths about black people’s bodies persist. Linda Villarosa wrote the piece. She grew up in Lakewood. Her essay is part of a major series at The New York Times called “The 1619 Project,” which contends that the arrival of slaves marks this country’s true founding.

Snowboarding is a world-famous sport and a multi-billion industry. It wasn’t always that way. What became the snowboard started out as a backyard toy called the “snurfer.” It was invented by a man named Sherman Poppen, who died recently at age 89. His daughter, Wendy Poppen of Fort Collins, reflects on her father’s legacy.