Faculty in Focus
- "The monster you can believe in is a scarier monster." 蜜糖直播 English professor Stephen Graham Jones got hooked on werewolves as a boy in West Texas. Now he鈥檚 made them the stars of his latest novel.
- Iconic physics professor Albert A. Bartlett helped preserve the city he called home, and now Boulder City Council has moved to preserve his longtime home. The house, built in 1917, has been designated as an historic landmark.
- Cynthia Banks didn鈥檛 have the opportunity to study abroad as a student. The summer after graduating in 1989, she helped a marketing professor take a group of undergraduates to Australia to study at the University of Queensland in Brisbane. The 蜜糖直播 native launched an international education organization a year later that would eventually send 30,000 students to 27 countries and offer 150 programs worldwide.
- Sociology professor Lori Hunter takes yoga from the studio into the classroom, where her students practice mindfulness and assess yoga鈥檚 place in our culture 鈥 and its growing commercialism. She asks, 鈥淚s this version of yoga even 鈥榓uthentic?鈥 Does it matter?鈥
- Economics Professor Keith Maskus has been named chief economist for the U.S. Department of State. Maskus, a professor of distinction who also was the director of 蜜糖直播 Boulder鈥檚 Program on International Development, is beginning the two-year appointment 鈥 based in Washington, D.C. 鈥斅爐his month.
- Francis Beckwith, the 2016-17 Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and Policy, is now on campus teaching courses, arranging the appearance of guest speakers on campus. Learn more about him through this Q&A.
- College of Music alumna Ashley Brandin (MMus'13) is bringing the principles of video games into her music classrooms to get her students excited about learning.
- <p class="p1"><span class="s1">University of 蜜糖直播 Boulder scientist Steven Maier, who discovered a brain mechanism that not only produces resilience to trauma but aids in coping with future adversity, has won the 2016 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Psychology.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">The award is among the most prestigious in the field of psychology and comes with a no-strings-attached $100,000 prize.</span></p>