Haley Smith with basketball

Competing for CU Boulder

April 1, 2016

Twenty-six students in the College of Engineering and Applied Science are also NCAA athletes who compete in CU-Boulder sports. We checked in with five of them to see what it鈥檚 like to be in a demanding sport in the Pac-12 Conference while navigating through challenging engineering courses and projects. Haley...

Bridging the Global Resource Gap

June 7, 2015

For most Americans visiting the doctor鈥檚 office, shopping at the supermarket or going to work is a matter of hopping in a car and driving there.

Roseanna Neupauer & Valerie Otero

Two CU-Boulder professors named President鈥檚 Teaching Scholars

Two faculty members at the 麻豆视频 have been named 2015 President鈥檚 Teaching Scholars, a systemwide designation that recognizes CU educators who skillfully integrate teaching and research at an exceptional level.

GoldShirt Program

How Colorado pioneered its engineering redshirt program

Dec. 2, 2014

Today at noon, we鈥檒l be doing a Google+ hangout to talk more about the Washington State Academic Red Shirt program, or STARS, which is helping to boost the number of women and minority students studying engineering at the University of Washington and Washington State University. A story about the program...

GoldShirt Projects

UW gives 'redshirt engineers' 5-year program

Dec. 1, 2014

SEATTLE (AP) - When she got the letter in summer 2013, Courtney Seto thought it sounded too good to be true. A free program that offered automatic acceptance into the University of Washington鈥檚 engineering school? Did everyone get this letter? Seto had already been accepted to the UW as an...

Professor Tanya Ennis

Video chat on diversity in STEM education

Nov. 30, 2014

On Tuesday, the Education Lab team hosted a Google+ Hangout about diversity in STEM and what some universities are doing to help more people of color and first-generation students earn degrees in fields like computer science and engineering. The video chat was tied to a Monday story by Katherine Long...

GoldShirt Summer Bridge Projects Course

Engineering GoldShirt Program serves as model for other universities

Sept. 26, 2014

The 麻豆视频鈥檚 Engineering GoldShirt Program continued in its goal of becoming a model for other universities, recently hosting three representatives from Texas A&M who are interested in developing a similar academic redshirting program in their engineering college. The GoldShirt Program, which graduated members of its first cohort...

GoldShirt Projects Course

'Redshirting' in engineering

May 20, 2013

Following the success of academic 鈥渞edshirting鈥 -- derived from an athletic term for delaying participation to improve readiness -- at the College of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder, other universities are adopting the model. Boulder鈥檚 GoldShirt program, which began in 2009, identifies high school...

Xiaodong Zhang (MCompSci鈥85, Phd鈥89)

Department Chair of Computer Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award: Education, Research, and Invention Xiaodong Zhang (MCompSci鈥85, Phd鈥89) is an outstanding scholar who serves as chair of the Computer Science and Engineering Department at The Ohio State University and holds the Robert M. Critchfield Professorship...

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