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Twelve University of Colorado Boulder students have been offered Fulbright grants to pursue teaching, research and graduate studies abroad during the 2013-14 academic year, an all-time record for CU-Boulder. Their proposed subjects range from studying robotic colonoscopy equipment to determining the accuracy of wind measurements near wind turbines. Other proposals include research on the changing [...]

If America can end its addiction to debt, believe again in shared sacrifice and swap out myth for math, it just might reverse the nation’s financial free fall. Retired U.S. Sen. Alan Simpson brought that sobering message and his renowned tart humor to the 2013 Celebration of Success dinner on May 1. The Celebration of [...]

Since 1975, Fiske Planetarium has been the Johnny Appleseed of astronomy. Each year, 30,000 K-12 students and 4,000 University of Colorado Boulder students go there to take a front-row seat on the universe. Soon, they’ll get a better, clearer and deeper view. And Fiske won’t be just for astronomy anymore. For now, however, Fiske is [...]

Three faculty members and five students from the film and television program at the College of Arts and Media at CU Denver attended workshops and the College Television Awards gala in Los Angeles on April 25. “The Mortal Coils,” a web series produced by students, won third place in the national competition. Those involved with [...]

Kee Warner was not thinking about his health when senior instructor K.C. Craig’s email to the faculty list appeared on his computer screen late on a December Friday afternoon. But Craig’s offer of a free personal trainer as part of her spring semester course, Exercise Testing and Prescription HSCI 4950, made Warner pause. “K.C.’s email reminded me of [...]

Critics shouldn’t be surprised when students earn high grades, writes Joanne Belknap, sociology professor at CU-Boulder, in this guest column.

As the number of international students increases at CU-Boulder, so has demand for members of the community – including faculty and staff – to help newcomers explore their new surroundings.

A first-ever Fountain Fairview Cemetery crawl organized by UCCS faculty and students generated more than $4,000 and built ties between the city of Fountain and UCCS that will provide benefits for years to come. Barbara Headle, senior instructor, Department of History, and Mike Larkin, instructor, Geography and Environmental Studies, led a summer class and used [...]

In a new set of way-finding maps, planters at the University of Colorado Boulder are more than decorative containers. The concrete vessels serve as directional prompts for people to navigate central campus. The bronze buffalo statue near Folsom Field is another cue used in the online maps, as well as references like “exhaust fan at [...]

Students in the interdisciplinary Urban Housing course taught this semester by College of Architecture and Planning Instructor Jennifer Steffel Johnson took on a task to research, facilitate and design three affordable housing charrette projects. The results were presented at the Housing Colorado Now! Conference in Vail in October. Charrette is defined as the intense final [...]

The University of Colorado Boulder enrolled more international students during the 2011-12 academic year and sent more students abroad during the 2010-11 academic year than any other higher education institution in Colorado. The data, released by the Institute of International Education in its annual Open Doors Report, shows that CU-Boulder was home to 1,681 international [...]

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 [...]

Another successful Admissions Open House was hosted Sunday by the CU Denver Admissions Office. Hundreds of prospective students showed up at the Auraria Events Center to find out about options and opportunities to pursue higher education. University representatives were on hand at the more than 60 tables that wrapped around the gym. Prospective students could ask questions and [...]

Ellen Burkart, assistant director, Office of First Year Experience and Student Retention at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, recently was promoted to associate director. In her new role, she will continue to work on a variety of initiatives to support student success and retention. She also will develop and coordinate the UCCS Parent and [...]

When Barbara Headle, senior instructor, History Department at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, and her students learned the Fairview Cemetery in Fountain had been the target of vandals, they reacted with anger then channeled that into energy. Headle and student Kim Sweetwood joined forces with community leaders to create the Friends of Fountain Fairview [...]

The most important factor in retaining a UCCS student from their freshman to sophomore year and ultimately through graduation is relatively obvious, said Barbara Gaddis, director, Office of First Year Experience and Student Retention, during an Oct. 9 all-campus forum. “It’s you,” Gaddis said to the approximately 60 faculty and staff members who attended the [...]

Sabrina Wienholtz recently was named assistant director of the Office of Student Life and Leadership at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs. In the position, Wienholtz will work closely with student clubs and organizations and will advise the UCCS Student Government Association. A member of the UCCS staff since 2007, Wienholtz served as program assistant [...]

Just hours before the vice presidential candidates sparred in a lively debate on Oct. 11, barely touching on energy policy, an equally spirited discussion struck on that very topic, courtesy of the third annual Energy Moving Forward forum. A panel exchanged partisan blows in “The Future We Want: Student Perspectives on Energy Policy and its [...]

Getting a job can be difficult. Getting a federal government job can be twice as difficult, but members of the United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM) were on the Auraria Campus to give students tips on how to navigate USAJobs.gov, how to write a resume for the government sector and the opportunities for students in [...]

Incoming freshmen at the University of Colorado Denver heard a message loud and clear at Friday’s high-spirited convocation: Get connected to your university family and pursue college with courageous zeal. The program drew a packed house to Tivoli Turnhalle and featured comments by students and university leadership, music by a cappella group UCD Mix, a [...]

The New Year as observed by many Asian cultures, including Chinese, Korean, Tibetan and others coincides with lunar cycles. For 2012, the Chinese New Year’s day was Jan. 23 with celebrations continuing for two weeks – also known as the Spring Festival – and ending with the Lantern Festival on Feb. 6. This year’s celebration [...]

An orientation session and resource fair in the North Classroom welcomed new students to the CU Denver campus Jan. 11. Many of the nearly 125 students who attended were transferring to CU Denver from Metropolitan State College of Denver and Community College of Denver. Also participating were a number of first-time freshmen, about a dozen [...]

Helping a UCCS student decide to continue to his sophomore year could be as easy as saying “hello” outside of class. Barbara Gaddis, executive director of Student Retention and First Year Experience, shared student comments about decisions to continue at UCCS during a Thursday, Dec. 1, forum. She was joined by Homer Wesley, vice chancellor [...]

Building pathways for Latinos to enter college and graduate is the goal of a partnership between the University of Colorado Denver and the Hispanic Scholarship Fund (HSF). CU Denver and HSF officials signed a memorandum of understanding on Oct. 28 that is intended to foster recruitment and retention practices at CU Denver and leverage the strengths [...]

In 1991, when Punam Chatterjee was 20 months old, a drunk driver careened into her parents’ car. Her leg was shattered, as was her father’s. Her mother lost an eye. Although she was too young to remember it, she has since learned that while her parents convalesced, nurses volunteered to comfort her and read to [...]

The SUVs, vans and pickups of UCCS freshmen and their families were lined up the morning of Aug. 16 as the newest members of the campus community moved into university housing. Greeted by the Office of Residence Life student resident assistant staff, legions of current students, staff from multiple campus offices, and the occasional faculty [...]