Graduate School

Distinguished faculty

• Produce groundbreaking research

• Address critical issues facing our world

Work and study with the best. CU-Boulder faculty includes four Nobel laureates, four recipients of the National Medal of Science, 15 Guggenheim Fellows in the past 10 years, 20 recent MacArthur, Packard, and Fulbright Fellows, and 58 members of the national academies of arts and sciences, education, engineering, and sciences.

The Anthropology department at CU Boulder is fantastic, and I came here to work with its excellent professors and graduate students, as well as be part of a major research university. I conducted fieldwork in Bangalore, India in the summer of 2009, where I interviewed Indian nurses and their families. — Rachel Fleming

To test our new wireless protocols, my group in the Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program (ITP) mounts radios in small unmanned planes and flies them at a range north of Boulder. Our hope is that these protocols will help people stay connected during disasters. I am also the Director of ITP. I enjoy the challenge of leading a major unit on campus while maintaining a research program. — Timothy Brown

Personal Satisfaction

Ultimately, many people choose to pursue graduate education because they love a particular subject and have a strong desire to grapple with its complexities and explore its fine nuances. Graduate studies often begin at the threshold of the unknown about any given subject. Students undertake one of the biggest adventures of their lives in learning beyond what is known and then imparting that knowledge to others. This is the point where learning becomes creative, and it can be immensely satisfying.