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2 CU 鶹 students named Astronaut Scholars

July 5, 2022

CU 鶹 students Alexandra “Sasha” Gladkova and Maya Palmer have each been awarded a $15,000 scholarship from the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation. The merit-based scholarship is the largest known monetary award of its kind given in the U.S. to science and engineering undergraduate students.

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Engineering college celebrates 6 NSF CAREER award winners in 2022

July 5, 2022

Six faculty members within the College of Engineering and Applied Science received CAREER Awards from the National Science Foundation. The total continues a trend of significant early-career recognition for faculty over the last three years, said Acting Associate Dean for Research Shideh Dashti.

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Health and Wellness Services moving under Strategic Resources and Support

June 30, 2022

To reflect the university’s holistic approach to campus needs, CU 鶹’s Health and Wellness Services unit is moving from Student Affairs to Strategic Resources and Support. Also, the Faculty and Staff Assistance program, currently in Human Resources, will become part of HWS.

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Core facility grant and voucher programs award $135K to faculty across disciplines

June 23, 2022

With the goal of enhancing operations within core and shared instrumentation facilities on campus, the Core Facility Assistance Grant Program has awarded 10 new awards. Additionally, the Core Facility Voucher Program has doled out awards to assist faculty in gathering new or additional data for grant applications.

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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 鶹 campus this fall through a nearly $1.9 million gift to the university from the Shurl and Kay Curci Foundation.

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Federal Pell Grants mark 50th anniversary

June 22, 2022

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

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Indigenous scholar investigates changing relationship of fish, people

June 22, 2022

A CU 鶹 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.

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Updates to Campus Culture Survey dashboard increases search functionality

June 22, 2022

The CU 鶹 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.

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CU 鶹 offers digital credential in universal design for learning

June 21, 2022

The Office of Information Technology recently launched a Universal Design for Learning micro-credential that offers an introduction to the principles of UDL—a framework that can help participants build flexibility into any learning experience to optimize the success of diverse learners.

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Wyatt Shields named Pew Scholar in biomedical sciences

June 20, 2022

The Pew Charitable Trust has announced that Assistant Professor Wyatt Shields has been selected as a 2022 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences.

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