Academics
Matthew Winchester and Matthew Hurst are among a handful of national scholarship recipients selected for 2016 by the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation. Typically, the organization choses only one winner per university, but in CU Boulder's case, ASF has chosen two per year since 2015, according to the campus Top Scholarships office.
Elizabeth Koebele, a doctoral candidate in the Environmental Studies Program, was one of only 19 award winners from 535 applications for the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy grant. The environmentalist rubs elbows with ranchers and fly fishing companies, for example, adding a very social component to her research.
Summer Session provides an important academic opportunity for students and faculty. More than 7,500 students take Summer Session courses each year and about 95 percent of the students are in CU Boulder degree programs. Click through to read more about Summer Session programs and opportunities for class offerings.
With Family Weekend quickly approaching, many students may be getting a campus visit. It is a great opportunity to show parents, guardians or friends around and to update them on how school is going.
This Friday, members of the campus community are invited to join Chancellor DiStefano and Provost Moore for the annual presentation of CU Boulder faculty awards and the introduction of faculty members receiving tenure and promotion. The ceremony will be preceded by two programs earlier in the day, hosted in collaboration with Family Weekend.
Professor McKell Carter studies how social information influences the decisions people make, as well as how people predict others' behaviors. His expertise will be part of a French documentary that delves into the minds of world-class poker players.
The past secret societies of Chinese immigrants around the globe, and an emerging leader in crowdfunding securities -- New Zealand -- are the basis of research and teaching that two CU Boulder faculty members are undertaking overseas this academic year as recipients of Fulbright Scholar awards.
Noah Finkelstein, who co-directs the Center for STEM Learning at CU Boulder and is a principal investigator for the Physics Education Research group, plans to showcase CU Boulder research at Brazilian universities in November after being awarded a grant from a prestigious lectureship program for physicists.
CU Boulder’s rank as a tier-one research university holds merit with both faculty and students. Case in point: CU Boulder senior Nick Zyzda, who began working on his ambitious Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures research project, “Madness and Science in Georg Buchner’s Lenz,” this past summer with CU Boulder professor and mentor Dr. Arne Höcker.
Four of CU Boulder's five Nobel laureates gathered recently on campus for a photo in front of the Duane Physics Building. Click through for a short, behind-the-scenes video of the photo session.