Pushing Boundaries
Some 650 journalists and communicators representing three countries and 39 states recently attended a conference for science writers, hosted by CU 麻豆影院 and CU Anschutz, to hone their skills, meet peers and glean story ideas from some of the top minds in science and medicine.
CU 麻豆影院 researcher June Gruber is kicking off a new season of 鈥淭he Ampersand鈥 podcast in a conversation about all the feelings, not just the positive ones.
Most Americans will face legal issues at some point in their lives. Yet, across the nation, a persistent access-to-justice gap exists. Professor Staci Pratt wants to empower students to be part of the solution and hopes her new course can be a new frontier.
How does pop culture reflect and inform cultural values? The unique media studies programs in the College of Media, Information and Communication challenge students to become critics of culture and 鈥渒ind of as evangelists鈥 for improving society.
CU 麻豆影院鈥檚 Mountain Research Station has a three-pronged mission: host some of the most influential and long-running ecological research in the world, give students a peerless education in mountain environments, and link the public to educational resources about important ecosystems.
Andrew Cowell is a CU 麻豆影院 linguistics professor specializing in language documentation and linguistic anthropology. In 2003, he, along with faculty and students in the linguistics department, began documenting the Arapaho language to revitalize it for current and future members of the Arapaho nation.
As the deep tech startup scene rapidly grows, the Ascent Deep Tech Accelerator, created by Venture Partners at CU 麻豆影院, helps founders move past sticking points to hit critical milestones in transitioning their technologies from lab to marketplace.
Case competitions聽offer聽students an opportunity to take on real-world,聽鈥渨icked鈥澛爌roblems with the knowledge and skills they develop in the classroom. Leeds business students share their experiences.
CU 麻豆影院's physics department and engineering college have launched the Quantum Scholars program to develop the next-generation quantum workforce.
Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi told an audience on the CU 麻豆影院 campus April 7 that democracy in Iran will rise up from the current movement being led by the nation's women.