Faculty in Focus
New faculty members, many of whom recently attended a Faculty Affairs orientation, bring to ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder expertise in everything from bioinspired robotics and indigenous religious traditions to Vikings and the dynamics of climate variability and change.
The pandemic upended schools in the spring of 2020, sending students and faculty home. With an NSF RAPID grant, JILA Fellow Heather Lewandowski asked instructors what worked—and what didn't—as they moved their lab courses online.
After working remotely, engineering researchers are gradually and safely returning to campus to continue their work in the lab. Assistant Professor Kaushik Jayaram shares his experience.
Carla Fredericks, an associate professor of law, helped organize a campaign that changed the NFL.
After working remotely, engineering researchers are gradually and safely returning to campus to continue their work in the lab. Assistant Professor Nicole Labbe shares about her return to research.
After months of remote work due to COVID-19, Chris Heckman and some of his team are headed back to the lab for testing and experimentation.
Also known as Freedom Day, Jubilee Day and Liberation Day, Juneteenth celebrates the day when Union Army General Gordon Granger read aloud the Emancipation Proclamation in Galveston, Texas––supposedly the last place in the U.S. to hear of its passage. Learn more from Associate Professor Hillary Potter.
In mid-April, as instructor Chris Koehler was preparing to remotely teach his Pathway to Space class about the role imagination plays in our concept of space, he had an imaginative idea of his own.
ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ 55 million U.S. kids have been hunkered down at home the past few months, often in households where both parents work full time. In honor of Mother's Day, we caught up with ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder psychology professor and mother-of-two June Gruber for her perspective and advice for working moms.
Physicist Patricia Rankin was an advisor on a new report from the National Academy of Sciences that lays out why women leave science fields—and what institutions can do to reverse that loss.