Education & Outreach
- A collaboration between the School of Education and Northeast Colorado Board of Cooperative Educational Services has received a grant to help create a more sustainable teacher force in Northeast Colorado.
- Colorado leaders met with CU Boulder researchers recently to discuss ways to use the arts to address social and economic issues across the state.
- Colorado high school students interested in becoming teachers and community leaders can earn guaranteed admissions to CU Boulder’s School of Education for the 2018–19 academic year.
- CU Engage is pleased to announce new resources to deepen and advance a research partnership with the Student Voice and Leadership program in Denver Public Schools.
- A new CIRES-led study has found that it's possible to improve spatial reasoning with practice.
- A STEM camp this summer, held at Casa de la Esperanza, a housing community and learning center for migrant workers and their families, gave K-12 students a crash course in robotics.
- In June, nine students from CU Boulder gave visitors to Mesa Verde National Park an education in yucca plants and other facets of Colorado ecology.
- A summer research internship at CIRES gives Colorado community college students hands-on research opportunities as they look ahead in their careers.
- As a way to engage youth in the climate change conversation, Beth Osnes created "Shine," a musical performance about how energy, climate and humans are interrelated.
- An international research team including CU Boulder scientists has identified more than 1,200 genetic variants associated with how much schooling an individual completes.