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Mission
The Graduate School at the University of Colorado at Boulder works to create and preserve knowledge; to prepare a new generation of scholars, professionals, and informed citizens; to promote interdisciplinary thinking and learning; and to encourage constructive engagement with the public.

CU-Boulder Announces Development Of Renewable and Sustainable Energy Initiative
100th Distinguished Research Lectureship Awarded to Professor Fred Anderson

Innovative Grant Program Features Faculty Seed Grants

CU-Boulder Awarded $2.2 Million For Earth Radiation Belt Studies

EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS

CU Professor Receives National Award
University of Colorado at Boulder physics Professor William Ford has been awarded the American Physical Society's 2006 W.K.H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics.

Ford received the national award in recognition of his research to better understand the innermost workings of matter, especially the nature of radioactive decay. He has spent the better part of 30 years working on collider projects, including electron-positron annihilation experiments, from which findings have been used to help piece together clues about the early evolution of the universe.

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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
Antarctic Ice Sheet Losing Mass
University of Colorado at Boulder researchers used data from a pair of NASA satellites orbiting Earth in tandem to determine that the Antarctic ice sheet, which harbors 90 percent of Earth's ice, has lost significant mass in recent years. Learn more.

United Government Of Graduate Students
UGGS Wins Two National Awards
The Graduate School would like to congratulate the United Government of Graduate Students (UGGS) for a very successful fall semester, both here on campus and at the national level.UGGS sponsored several events for graduate students, including a campus-wide graduate student orientation, fall picnic, several coffee and happy hours, and co-sponsored an open forum with UCSU for the 5 candidates for the CU Regent-at-Large position. Learn more.

More News/Features

CU-Boulder: A Global Research University - A Report of the Task Force on International Graduate Education (downloadable pdf)

class Giving Opportunities
Contribute to the continued and future success of the Graduate School and its students by contributing to the CU Foundation.

"How Humanists and Social Scientists Can Take Advantage of Grant Opportunities at the National Science Foundation" A free lecture by Andrew Light from the Department of Philosophy and Evans School of Public Affairs, University of Washington. Sponsored by the Center for Humanities and the Arts. April 3rd, 2008, 2-4 p.m., UMC 245

Just the Facts: Research and Graduate Education
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Graduate Student Guide to Campus Life 2007-08
The online version of this annual publication provides A to Z information to serve the special needs and interests of graduate students. Download Graduate Student Guide to Campus Life. (pdf)