Education & Outreach
- CU Boulder and Colorado Mesa University have added an Electrical and Computer Engineering program to their expanding partnership.
- The National Education Policy Center recognizes honorees for closing educational opportunity gaps in their communities. This year's recipients join 37 other public high schools in the Schools of Opportunity network.
- The Trout Bowl, which will take place on campus Feb. 3, is a science competition designed to encourage the next generation of young, scientific minds to feed their curiosity about Earth's oceans.
- On Dec. 13, more than 80 local elementary, middle and high school students experienced an action-packed day of climate change education and inspiration at the CU Recreation Center.
- ATLAS Institute researchers have developed a suite of novel tools that enable middle-school students to quickly create networks, connect devices, invent apps and design wearable technology.
- Shalini Menon is helping the campus Build a Better Book Project make tactile materials more accessible for visually impaired children.
- Faculty and students helped develop a plan for how to better represent indigenous histories and ongoing tribal relationships to the land that is now Rocky Mountain National Park.
- Studies have long shown researchers publish prolifically in the first decade of their career, followed by a decline in productivity. But a CU Boulder study found that stereotype to be "remarkably inaccurate."
- The cyberlearning community, made up of computer and learning scientists who design and study innovative learning technologies, reports on emerging themes in this sphere.
- PhET Interactive Simulations is one of six winners of the WISE Award, recognizing innovative educational projects that address challenges and bring transformative societal change.