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Teaching and Learning Laboratory was awarded $500,000 by
the U.S. Department of Education in 2001- to develop a hands-on,
pre-engineering curriculum for students in grades three through
five. The ITL Laboratory pioneers hands-on engineering education
for undergraduates and outreach to elementary, middle and
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Faculty Facts
- Three faculty have received Nobel Prizes: Thomas Cech of
chemistry and biochemistry won the 1989 Nobel Prize in chemistry
and Carl Wieman and Eric Cornell of JILA and physics won
the 2001 Nobel Prize in physics.
- Seventeen faculty are members of the National Academy of
Sciences.
- Fourteen faculty are members of the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences.
- Ten faculty are members of the National Academy of Engineering.
- Six faculty have received MacArthur Fellowships, known
as the "genius grant": Charles Archambeau of physics (1988),
David Hawkins of philosophy (1981; Hawkins died in 2002),
Patricia Limerick of history (1995), Margaret Murnane of
physics (2000), Norman Pace of molecular, cellular and developmental
biology (2001) and Daniel Jurafsky of linguistics (2002).
- Three faculty have been named investigators by the Howard
Hughes Medical Institute: Natalie Ahn of chemistry and biochemistry,
Kristi Anseth of chemical engineering, and Min Han of molecular,
cellular and developmental biology.
- Nine CU-Boulder professors have received prestigious Packard
Fellowships. The unrestricted grants, worth $625,000 each
in 2002, go to young faculty who are among "the most promising
science and engineering researchers at universities in the
United States."
- Two faculty have won the National Science Foundation Director's
Award for Distinguished Teaching Scholars, the foundation's "highest
honor for excellence in both teaching and research:" Richard
McCray of astrophysical and planetary sciences (2002) and
Carl Wieman of physics (2001).
- Eight CU-Boulder faculty were named Fulbright scholars
for 2002-03. Faculty members from history, biology, sociology,
East Asian languages and civilizations, engineering and anthropology
won grants to conduct research and lecture in Africa, Asia,
Europe and North America.
- Nineteen are CU Distinguished Professors.
- The Boulder Faculty Assembly formulates policy and makes
recommendations to administrators and the Board of Regents
regarding matters of concern to the faculty.
- BFA officers for 2002-03 are Uriel Nauenberg, chair; Martha
Hanna, vice-chair; and Deane Bowers, secretary and nominating
committee chair. Representatives-at-large are Greg Carey
and Robert Schulzinger.
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