Celebrate
- As a visiting scholar, the CU Boulder geography professor will visit other campuses, join classroom lectures and seminars and give major lectures open to the host campus’s community.
- Mike Klymkowsky, a molecular, cellular and developmental biology professor who saved students over $5 million in textbook costs by making his co-authored texts open access, is being honored with the Open Educator Award.
- Orit Peleg and Shuo Sun are among 125 early-career scholars who represent “the most promising scientific researchers working today.”
- Seven CU Boulder scientists have been selected to contribute their expertise to the Decadal Survey for Solar and Space Physics (Heliophysics) 2024–33.
- The assistant professor of computer science has just received $900,000 over the next five years to learn how fireflies in a swarm synchronize their lighting displays. She's using LEDs, VR and big tents in the wilderness to signal to the fireflies...and they're signaling back.
- Team DROPS has earned first place in the 2023 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics SciTech International Student Conference for their senior design project.
- At the Colorado Board of Education February meeting, all of the School of Education’s teacher preparation programs were lauded and received sweeping reauthorization. CU Boulder was praised for its “true partnerships” with districts and reading instruction, an area where very few other university programs have earned reauthorization on the first pass.
- Two professors are being recognized for inventions that could have “real impact on the welfare of society.” Corrella Detweiler and Wei Zhang have been named senior members of the National Academy of Inventors.
- CU Boulder earned a spot on the recently published IIE Open Doors survey’s top 40 list for institutions hosting the most international scholars engaged in academic and research activities in 2021–22.
- Three CU Boulder students have earned 2023 Brooke Owens Fellowships, a highly competitive program that provides paid internships and mentoring to exceptional undergraduate women seeking careers in aviation or space exploration.