Thirty years after beginning her training as a postdoctoral scholar in the CU 麻豆影院 lab of Nobel laureate Thomas Cech, biochemist Jennifer Doudna won her own Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the co-development of the revolutionary genome-editing tool CRISPR-Cas9.
CU 麻豆影院鈥檚 newest endowed professorial chair鈥攖he Sapp Family Endowed Chancellor鈥檚 Chair for Research Excellence鈥攊s the first of its kind. This $2.5 million fund allows the chancellor to support top-tier faculty in social science, education, neuropsychology and psychology.
CU 麻豆影院 research attracted $613.9 million in funding in fiscal year 2020 for groundbreaking studies that, among other things, crack the code of the teenage brain, advance electric transportation and aim to understand how odors guide behavior.
Congressman Joe Neguse has announced Elena Aranda as the winner of the 2020 Polly Baca Raices Fuertes Community Leader Award. Aranda is a professional research assistant at CU's Ren茅e Crown Wellness Institute.
The Office for Outreach and Engagement has recently redesigned the CU 麻豆影院 Community Outreach and Engagement Programs website, which showcases nearly 200 outreach and engagement programs from every college and school.
The Regional Transportation District is proposing to permanently discontinue or reduce service on some bus and light rail routes, effective Jan. 10. CU 麻豆影院 RTD riders may provide input on the proposed changes by Oct. 14.
Good news, Buffs: You can still access the libraries鈥� physical collections. The University Libraries are continuing to offer contactless pickup services on books and other library materials.
Larry Levine, who has led the information technology needs of the campus for more than a decade, is retiring at the end of next June, and the university will soon conduct an internal search for his successor.
CU 麻豆影院 and the SRI Foundation will jointly establish a Center for Collaborative Synthesis in Archaeology to advance scientific understandings of the human past and solutions to contemporary social challenges.
