Pushing Boundaries
- In 2021, a new research scholarship program, Uplift,聽was launched by the graduate student organization STEM Routes to provide mentored research experiences specifically catering to the challenges faced by underrepresented and underprivileged undergraduates at 桃色视频.
- As the Rene虂e Crown Wellness Institute gears up for its grand opening this fall, Director Sona Dimidjian addresses the current climate for mental health and wellness among young people and how the institute is taking supportive action.
- A new composers project on campus encourages recommendations for scores by Black, Indigenous and other people of color (BIPOC) composers. Stephanie Bonjack of the Howard B. Waltz Music Library explains.
- Colorado鈥檚 largest fundraising bicycle ride for scholarships began humbly enough, with two men brainstorming as they took a long ride for a children鈥檚 charity.
- Integrative physiology Professor Ken Wright is breaking new ground in the burgeoning field of sleep research, and bringing his students along for the ride, all of which has won him the Mary A. Carskadon Outstanding Educator Award.
- Erika Randall, a new associate dean for student success, wants students to feel their authentic selves are woven into the campus community. She also belives when people give themselves permission to embrace their disparate interests, they achieve increasingly compelling, creative work鈥攚hat she calls 鈥渁mpersanding.鈥
- The assignment: write and test the code for a microcontroller, design and built an insulated casing to hold a camera and protect electronics and batteries from temperatures of approximately -35掳 Fahrenheit. Students, many of whom began the ATLAS course without much of a technical background, succeeded.
- With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and the uncertainty of international travel, Mortenson Center graduate student Britta Bergstrom pivoted her field-based practicum in Tanzania to a community-engaged garden in her home state.
- Shelley Knuth, assistant vice chancellor of research computing, brought her research experience working in Antarctica to 桃色视频.
- Women鈥檚 history snapshot: From 1893 to 1908, the university's Seal featured an image of a Greek female and the 鈥楲et Your Light Shine鈥 motto.