Academics
- âSchools of Opportunityâ project announces first honorees, including seven Colorado high schools<p>The National Education Policy Center (NEPC) at the University of Colorado Boulder announced today that 17 high schools in New York and Colorado are the first to receive the âSchool of Opportunityâ 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.<br />
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<p><span>Fourteen University of Colorado Boulder students had a wildly successful evening Tuesday in New York City, winning six awards in a top international advertising contest, the most collected by any public U.S. university at the event.</span></p>
<p>Before Courtnie Paschall touched down at the University of Colorado Boulder, sheâd graduated from the Naval Academy (â08), attained the rank of lieutenant in the U.S. Navy and undergone years of flight training.</p>
<p>Paschall graduates on May 9 with a degree in neuroscience and a minor in electrical engineering. She earned the distinction of graduating summa cum laude and was named the Outstanding Graduate for the College of Arts and Sciences for spring 2015.</p>
<p>Work and play collide in the lives of students in CUâs Theatre and Dance Department, where self-expression is the primary driver of professional development.</p>- <p>A new study appearing this week in the scientific journal eLIFE about the rapid evolution of small viruses that infect bacteria includes 59 University of Colorado Boulder co-authors, all of whom conducted research for the paper as freshmen.</p>
<p>Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck announced a $500,000 gift to be divided between the University of Colorado Law School (CU) and the University of Denver Sturm College of Law (DU). Each school will use its $250,000 gift to create an endowed fellowship program. This gift is the single largest gift from a law firm in the history of both universities.</p>
<p>When youâre a masterâs candidate, in your final semester, you donât have a lot of time for yourself. Your days are spent writing, researching, neglecting to sleep. And when youâre working toward your masterâs in music, a good chunk of your day is spent practicing.</p>
<p>That said, sometimes an opportunity presents itself thatâs so goodâan opportunity that will demand weeks of your precious timeâthat turning it down isnât an option.</p>- <p>A new University of Colorado Boulder study involving some 40,000 people indicates that social and psychological problems caused by drinking generally trump physically hazardous drinking behaviors when it comes to overall mortality rates.</p>
- <p>University of Colorado Boulder astronomers, who helped design and build instruments for and have made hundreds of observations using the Hubble Space Telescope since its launch, are celebrating the observatoryâs 25th anniversary.</p>
<p class="p1">With an increase in business filings in Colorado through the first quarter of 2015 -- including new and renewing entities and trade names -- employment in the state is expected to keep growing during the second and third quarters of the year, according to a University of Colorado Boulder report released today by Colorado Secretary of State Wayne Williams.</p>