Academics

  • <p>A consortium led by the University of Colorado Boulder has received permission from the Federal Aviation Administration to start flying drones over parts of Texas and Oklahoma this spring in the heart of Tornado Alley to conduct weather research.</p>
  • Europa, courtesy of NASA
    <p>A University of Colorado Boulder instrument has been selected to fly on a NASA mission to Jupiter’s icy moon, Europa, which is believed to harbor a subsurface ocean that may provide conditions suitable for life.</p>
  • <p>It’s not every day you get to work with a Pulitzer Prize-winning librettist as a college student. It’s even less often that you share the same alma mater. When the sixth season of the CU New Opera Workshop, or CU NOW, kicks off this month, one of the opera professionals mentoring composition students knows Boulder well. Mark Campbell, a 1975 graduate of the Department of Theatre and Dance, is coming back to campus for the first time in 40 years.</p>
  • <p>A novel compound developed by a team led by the University of Colorado Boulder may be therapeutic in suppressing misguided inflammatory responses by a set ofĀ immune cells known as microglia to perceived damage to the brain and nervous system.</p>
  • <p>It’s graduation time for colleges and universities around the country and for the 5,927 CU-Boulder graduates likely to hit the job market there’s good news. That’s because the job market is healthy and strong across the board, says Jon Schlesinger from CU-Boulder’s Office of Career Services.</p>
  • <p>91“ó»ĘѼ seven years ago, Rob Kemp had two encounters that changed his life.</p>
    <p>The first was when a mentor at the university where he earned his bachelor’s degree pushed him to talk with a former CU-Boulder PhD student. Until then, Kemp hadn’t really considered going on to graduate school.</p>
  • Emirates Mars Mission
    <p>A mission to study dynamic changes in the atmosphere of Mars over days and seasons led by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) involves the University of Colorado Boulder as the leading U.S. scientific-academic partner.</p>
  • <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 ā€œSchool of Opportunityā€ 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, she’d graduated from the Naval Academy (ā€˜08), 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 graduatingĀ summa cum laudeĀ and was named the Outstanding Graduate for the College of Arts and Sciences for spring 2015.</p>
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