Celebrate
- The CU Boulder Wind Team is harnessing their passion for renewable energy in the fight against climate change and was selected as one of 12 winning universities for phase two of the 2024 U.S. Department of Energy Collegiate Wind Competition.
- The National Science Foundation's Graduate Research Fellowship Program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in a wide variety of science-related disciplines.
- Harsha Gangadharbatla loves the challenge of inspiring students who sit in the last row of the lecture hall. His attention to his craft and his classes led to a prestigious teaching award from the American Academy of Advertising last month.
- The 2024 Research & Innovation Seed Grants, awarded by CU Boulder’s Research & Innovation Office and the Office of the Provost, are funding 19 new projects for up to $50,000 each.
- At its meeting on April 11, the University of Colorado Board of Regents will recognize CU’s most recent slate of distinguished professors, including Brian Argrow, Marie Banich, Shemin Ge and Dragan Maksimovic from the Boulder campus.
- The University Libraries awarded undergraduate Cristal Alvarado a $500 prize for her compelling video, “There’s Always More to Life Than We May Think.” Watch the winning contest entry.
- A team of researchers from LASP and the Colorado School of Mines has developed an innovative, award-winning idea for a lunar service station, where lunar rovers and mining machines could charge their batteries and clean the dust off their surfaces.
- The American Bar Foundation’s Outstanding Service Award is granted to a fellow who has, in his or her professional career, “adhered for more than 30 years to the highest principles and traditions of the legal profession and to the service of the public.”
- CU Boulder has several thousand student employees who perform countless services with enthusiasm, dedication and initiative. Learn about the 2024 Student Employee of the year winner, Erica Carlos Perez; the runner-up, Maya Milán; and other nominees.
- A group of seven physics students, staff and faculty were recently awarded funding from the College of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Innovation Fund for their proposal to improve undergraduate research for underrepresented and minority groups in STEM disciplines. The grant will support an undergraduate research expo and fellowship fund.