Celebrate
- “The Only Good Indians” became a New York Times bestseller and has won a host of awards, now including the 2021 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award.
- The American Educational Research Association selected CU Boulder Associate Professor Elizabeth Meyer for the AERA Award for Distinguished Contributions to Gender Equity in Education Research. There will be a ceremony at 4 p.m. on Dec. 7.
- The National Academy of Inventors has announced that CU Boulder researchers Richard Noble and Theodore Randolph have been named as 2021 fellows.
- Forever Buff Jessica Yan was chosen for the highly selective Schwarzman Scholar program. Next year, she will begin a master’s program in global affairs at Beijing’s Tsinghua University.
- The Deming Center shined among the top entrepreneurship programs in the world for its trailblazing initiative for CU’s student-athletes, Buffs With a Brand.
- The “DBIA Buff Builders” team has earned first place in the 2021 National Design-Build Student Competition, held in Denver earlier this month.
- The 2022 RIO Faculty Fellows cohort is comprised of 17 of the most promising faculty from across CU Boulder. The group reflects the diversity of expertise, research and scholarship taking place across campus.
- This year's winners of the Bruce Ekstrand Memorial Graduate Student Performance Competition on Nov. 16 included a clarinetist, trumpet player, countertenor and double bass player.
- The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities named CU Boulder a 2021 Innovation Award winner. CU Boulder earned the organization's innovation and economic prosperity designation in 2019.
- CU Boulder’s Katherine Perkins and Valerie Otero are cited for their groundbreaking work to understand and improve science education.