Awards
In studying dinosaur discards, CU Â鶹ӰԺ scientist Karen Chin has gained expertise recently honored with the Bromery Award and detailed in a new children’s book.
Gary Wall, a 1970 CU Â鶹ӰԺ physics graduate, won the Los Alamos Medal in recognition of more than 50 years of distinguished work at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
CU Â鶹ӰԺ researcher Aaron Whiteley is recognized by the American Society for Microbiology for his work exploring bacterial immune responses and how it translates to the human immune system.
CU Â鶹ӰԺ distinguished professor Karolin Luger is awarded the 2023 World Laureates Association Prize in Life Sciences or Medicine.
Elizabeth Shevchenko Wittenberg was born in China, detained in World War II Japan and fully embraced her American life; a scholarship named for her describes her life in 54 words. Here is the rest of the story.
CU Â鶹ӰԺ researcher Edward Chuong recently received an international award for his lab’s work studying transposons in the human genome.
CU Arts & Sciences grad Krouse wins prestigious Edgar Award for true-crime memoir about CU’s early 2000s sexual-assault scandal.
The $400,000 award recognizes the far-reaching medical impact of Caruthers’ development, in the early 1980s, of an efficient and fast method to synthesize nucleic acids.
The award is given to students for academic achievement and service; it is considered one of the College of Arts & Sciences’ highest honors.
The awards are part of $1.88 million in 2023 biomedical research grant funding for Colorado researchers.