Celebrate
- With the construction of increasingly taller dams, Assistant Professor Yida Zhang is concerned about the potential effects of soil grain breakage caused by pressure. He recently received a prestigious CAREER award to fund his research on the evolution of grain sizes in dams.
- As part of Homecoming celebrations, the CU Boulder community will honor some of its most accomplished and inspirational Forever Buffs at the Alumni Awards ceremony on Nov. 2.
- CU Boulder geological sciences Professor Shemin Ge is an expert on “induced seismicity,” when earthquakes are triggered by energy development.
- CU Boulder Distinguished Professor Karolin Luger has been awarded the 2023 World Laureates Association Prize in Life Sciences or Medicine.
- The Office of Faculty Affairs is announcing several new fellows in the Faculty Leadership Institute, a program that helps identify and support emerging leaders and provides opportunities for faculty to work together.
- The Leeds School of Business undergraduate program earned its highest-ever ranking, tying for the No. 18 spot among public schools, according to U.S. News & World Report’s 2024 list of best colleges.Â
- CU Boulder’s College of Engineering and Applied Science held steady as a top 20 undergraduate engineering program in U.S. News and World Report’s Best Undergraduate Engineering rankings, maintaining the No. 17 spot among public institution peers.
- Graduate student Christopher Picard is one of 21 students nationwide to win scholarships this year from the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation.
- Kirk Ambrose and Rebecca Safran have been recognized with Distinguished Research Lectureships—among the most esteemed honors bestowed by faculty upon faculty at CU Boulder.
- Keala Gapin, a chemical and biological engineering senior, is the recipient of a 2023 scholarship from the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation, an organization founded by the Mercury 7 astronauts and sustained by successive generations of NASA