Children in Afghanistan skateboarding thanks to the Skateistan nonprofit

Education on the quarter pipe

June 23, 2022

Alumnus Rory Burke is working with a nonprofit called Skateistan to help kids across the globe achieve academic goals through skateboarding.

Lab with MRI machine

Major gift to enhance diversity of life-science researchers

June 23, 2022

Six life science scholars will embark on their PhD studies and contribute their unique cultural experiences to the CU Boulder campus this fall through a nearly $1.9 million gift to the university from the Shurl and Kay Curci Foundation.

Wil Srubar

Cities of the future may be built with algae-grown limestone

June 23, 2022

The Living Materials Laboratory is scaling up the manufacture of carbon-neutral cement as well as cement products, which can slowly pull carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and store it.

Pink roses in bloom on campus

Federal Pell Grants mark 50th anniversary

June 22, 2022

Federal Pell Grants, which have helped generations of low- and moderate-income CU Boulder students afford higher education, turned 50 years old on June 23. The Pell Grant program helps more than 4,000 CU Boulder students annually and nearly 7 million recipients nationwide.

Group of CU Boulder alumni

Host a reunion this Homecoming

June 22, 2022

Were you part of a special group of people at CU Boulder? Host a reunion with them during Homecoming Oct. 27–29. Reunions registered with the Alumni Association by July 1 receive marketing and event support and CU swag.

Film posters

Award-winningfilmmakergives persistence, ‘energy’to next generation

June 22, 2022

John W. Comerford, who discovered the power of film at CU Boulder, arranges major gift to its Stan Brakhage Moving Image Art Forum and Studies Collection.

Natasha Myhal

Indigenous scholar investigates changing relationship of fish, people

June 22, 2022

A CU Boulder doctoral candidate in ethnic studies with an emphasis on Native American and Indigenous studies has received the 2022–23 Henry Roe Cloud Dissertation Fellowship at Yale University.

laptop keyboard

An ‘easy-button’ approach to user testing

June 22, 2022

Recent ATLAS graduate Elsy Meis proposes Dashboard Zero, an approach to user testing that is both simple and immediate, in a paper she will present later this month at the Human Computer Interaction International Conference.

Campus community member working on computer

Updates to Campus Culture Survey dashboard increases search functionality

June 22, 2022

The CU Boulder Office of Data Analytics has updated the 2021 Campus Culture Survey unit-level dashboard to increase the functionality of the survey results by campus unit.

Employees sit at a conference table with laptops

Explore higher education trends, technology at CU event July 27

June 21, 2022

The University of Colorado invites faculty and staff to a new annual event on “propelling CU’s mission today and tomorrow,” exploring higher education trends with Gartner Research.

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