Announcements & Deadlines
A new humanities course on how to make sense of data and apply it to real-world problems has just been awarded $300,000 from the National Science Foundation. The grant was awarded to Eric Vance, associate professor of applied math, and David Glimp, associate professor of English.
Congressman Joe Neguse announced Professor Violeta Chapin as the winner of the 2021 Polly Baca RaÃces Fuertes Community Leader Award in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month.
Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder’s enrollment numbers bounced back this fall, according to new enrollment data published Wednesday. The campus’s fall census marked undergraduate enrollment at 29,511 students, a 1.8% increase from fall 2020.
Boulder City Council took the next step toward approval of the proposed Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder South annexation agreement. It also honored the late Frances Draper, a longtime university employee, for her instrumental leadership and collaborative spirit.
With a three-year grant, the University Libraries' Rare and Distinctive Collections and the Department of Cinema Studies & Moving Image Arts will explore curriculum-building for an undergraduate certificate program on media archiving and preservation.
Lisa Marshall, associate director of science storytelling in Strategic Relations and Communications, won a Silver Media Relations award from PRSA Colorado in 2021 for her story "New COVID-19 test returns results in 45 minutes, without nasal swab."Â
John and Ann Harsh are creating a scholarship for first-generation and underrepresented students studying integrative physiology, as well as a bequest to establish the first endowed faculty chair in the Department of Integrative Physiology and directorship of the Health Professions Residential Academic Program.
Four Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder aerospace graduate students have been named 2021 Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology.
The Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ has received a $2 million gift from The Anschutz Foundation to support the university’s diverse research in aerospace and national defense—from tracking and protecting satellites in orbit to improving the security of mobile devices.
As the world of live theater strives to resume this fall after a long pandemic hiatus, alumna, arts aficionado and philanthropist Roe Green is helping welcome students and the community back with a record-breaking $5 million gift for the Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder theater program.