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Longtime CU staff member this year became director of budget and finance for Continuing Education at CU-Boulder.

The groundbreaking CU Teach program at the University of Colorado Boulder was awarded $878,115 this month by the National Math and Science Initiative (NMSI)—matching an equal amount that private donors had contributed to the program during a recent 16-month period. The private gifts totaling $878,115 for the program include major commitments by Richard McCray, a [...]

Tiffany Richards, a student at the University of Colorado Denver School of Education and Human Development, created a project to send baskets of food home with her students at Central Elementary School in Commerce City over Thanksgiving break. Student ethnicity at the school is 88 percent Latino. A large percentage of the remainder of the [...]

A University of Colorado Boulder admissions officer and dean are among 10 prominent alumni, faculty, staff and students who will be honored by the Alumni Association at its 83nd annual awards ceremony Nov. 1. Ryan Chreist, who oversees recruitment for all undergraduate programs, and Lorrie Shepard, dean of the School of Education, will receive the [...]

Four University of Colorado Boulder faculty members are among 96 U.S. researchers named by the White House as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, or PECASE. The winners announced last week are assistant professor Erin Furtak of the School of Education, assistant professor Cindy Regal of the physics department, associate [...]

While computer science graduates may be reaping rewards with among the highest job offer rates of any degree holders, there remains a decline in the participation of women and minority students interested in the field. The leaders of the 2012 Scalable Game Design Summer Institute hope to present new teaching techniques for the field, with [...]

Victoria Hand, assistant professor of the University of Colorado Boulder School of Education, developed the STEMsation Mentor Training Program with funding support from the school’s Women Investing in the School of Education (WISE). The STEMsation mentoring program provides promising high school sophomores from underrepresented backgrounds the opportunity to develop effective learning strategies from university faculty [...]

Several University of Colorado Boulder School of Education faculty members recently were recognized for a variety of honors and activities. Rubén Donato is a 2012 recipient of the CU Parents Association Marinus Smith Staff/Faculty Recognition Award, established to honor those who have had a significant, positive impact on a CU-Boulder undergraduate. Guillermo (Willy) Solano-Flores received [...]

Rhonda Williams, associate professor of the University of Colorado Colorado Springs College of Education, recently was named Counselor Educator of the Year by the American School Counselors Association. She will receive her award June 25 at the association’s annual conference in Minneapolis. … Amy Nacht, director of the College of Nursing (CON), Nurse-Midwives faculty practice, [...]

Academics, state administrators and mathematics educators from around the world will converge at the University of Colorado Boulder to tackle learning progressions in mathematics and their design and use in today’s classrooms at the third International Realistic Mathematics Education (RME) Conference. The Sept. 23-25 event is co-hosted by CU-Boulder’s School of Education and the Freudenthal [...]

Get Green is an incentive program designed by a dedicated mix of staff and faculty at CU Denver’s School of Education and Human Development who are determined to educate and encourage faculty, staff and students to adopt greener habits. Get Green launched in August 2010 with the program “v1.0 Reducing our footprint,” which focused on [...]

More than 60 middle- and high-school teachers from around the country are learning to design video games at the University of Colorado Boulder as part of the third annual Scalable Game Design Summer Institute, May 31 to June 10. The institute is part of CU-Boulder’s iDREAMS project, which is funded by the National Science Foundation [...]