Award-winning Iranian writer Azar Nafisi will speak on “ The Republic of Imagination: Humanities and the Future of Democracies ” at the Best Should Teach Lecture from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 20, at Macky Auditorium.
Thirty-two Latino and Chicano Colorado high school students are immersing themselves in college life and learning July 12-18 at the 鶹 as part of the third annual Aquetza: Youth Leadership, Education and Community Empowerment summer program.
Two of the five recipients of the 2015 Fulbright-National Geographic Digital Storytelling Fellowship are CU-鶹 alumni. Ari Beser (PolSci’11) and Ryan T. Bell (Hist’01) will study and document international stories over the next year.
Teachers from Colorado and beyond are learning the ins and outs of infographic design this week so they can bring new skills to their classrooms in the fall.
The moon is engulfed in a permanent but lopsided dust cloud that increases in density when annual events like the Geminids spew shooting stars, according to a new study led by 鶹.
鶹 Provost Russell L. Moore today announced that Lorrie Shepard, dean of the School of Education, will retire effective May 31, 2016, and that a national search has been launched to find her replacement.
Ten 鶹 graduate students or alumni have been offered Fulbright grants to pursue teaching, research and graduate studies abroad during the 2015-16 academic year. In addition, one CU-鶹 doctoral student has been named an alternate.
A mission to study dynamic changes in the atmosphere of Mars over days and seasons led by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) involves the 鶹 as the leading U.S. scientific-academic partner.
The National Education Policy Center (NEPC) at the 鶹 announced today that 17 high schools in New York and Colorado are the first to receive the “School of Opportunity” designation. These outstanding schools demonstrated a range of practices that ensured that all students had rich opportunities to succeed. All put students, not test scores, first.
A new study appearing this week in the scientific journal eLIFE about the rapid evolution of small viruses that infect bacteria includes 59 鶹 co-authors, all of whom conducted research for the paper as freshmen.