Education & Outreach
- Next time you drive along I-70 near Idaho Springs, you’ll see an eye-catching billboard encouraging smart investing. That’s due to a new collaboration between the ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Division of Securities and students in ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder's College of Media, Communication and Information.
- A team of entrepreneurship experts visited ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ to help scientists and researchers recognize breakthrough ideas.
- ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder’s Sleep and Development Lab’s summer fellowship provides hands-on training for undergrads while furthering research for the university.
- ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Science Discovery, a K–12 education outreach organization, recently received two statewide awards in recognition of its efforts and achievements in STEM and environmental education.
- At the global climate summit next month, teachers and aspiring teachers will be in the audience and working with an educator's guide created at ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder to help their students understand how climate change is impacting people and communities and how they can help. Participating teachers may apply for graduate credit and a stipend—deadline Nov. 16.
- ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder researcher Michele Moses talks about the future of affirmative action in higher education and how arguments around college admissions point to deeper divisions in U.S. society.
- A grant from the Office of Naval Research in the U.S. Department of Defense will support five Denver-metro community colleges and two universities in an initiative to increase the number of community college students who pursue engineering careers—particularly those from underrepresented populations.
- ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder is proud to announce the launch of a worldwide education coalition in support of the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit with the goal to broaden understanding of the human rights impacts of a changing global climate and galvanize people to take action.
- The College of Music’s American Music Research Center has embarked on a research project aimed at documenting, preserving and engaging with diverse musical and cultural influences in and around Pueblo, ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥.
- As book bans rise across the country, Wendy Glenn, a ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder professor and former English teacher, argues that reading books––even ones that make adults uncomfortable––is critical for the education of young people.