Published: April 1, 2016

Associate Professor Julie Carr has been chosen to receive CU’s prestigious Thomas Jefferson Award.

The award is one of the University's highest honors and is given to students, staff and faculty members who advance the ideals of Thomas Jefferson. These ideals include broad interests in literature, arts and sciences, and public affairs; a strong concern for the advancement of higher education; a deeply seated sense of individual civic responsibility; and a profound commitment to the welfare and rights of the individual.

Carr's creative work involves the writing of poetry, essays and prose. Among other topics she studies American and British poetry.