Evaluation: Research and creative work are part of CU-Boulder's mission. We are proud of our illustrious faculty, the confidence shown in our research by ever-increasing external funding, and our contributions to the betterment of society and the advancement of knowledge. Improving the support infrastructure for research is a priority over the next few years.

We are also proud of the many ways in which the research activities of CU-Boulder faculty contribute to teaching and to student educational experiences. We hope to continue to integrate teaching and research more closely through our undergraduate education focus area.

• CU-Boulder faculty are members of the National Academy of Sciences (15 faculty members), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (11), and the National Academy of Engineering (7)
• Two faculty have received prestigious NSF Presidential Early Career Development Awards since the program begain in 1991
• Three faculty have received MacArthur Fellowships, known as "genius grants"
• Four faculty have been named investigators by the Howard Huges Medical Institute
• The 1989 Nobel Prize for chemistry and the 1997 King Faisal International Prize in Science were bestowed on CU-Boulder faculty
• Research funding is another type of honor. For example, one professor recently received a $1 million NIH MERIT award to continue his research on genetic links between alcohol and nicotine addition.

• produce and participate in performances (theater, dance, music), exhibitions, and other creative works; (see calendar)
• submitted a record 118 invention disclosures during the 1996-97 fiscal year, starting a process that eventually will bring their discoveries to market
• host and contribute to conferences and meetings world-wide
• publish their discoveries. In 1995, '96, and '97, CU-Boulder personnel authored a yearly average of 400 articles and monographs cited in the Social Science Citation Index, 1,700 cited in the Science Citation Index, and 170 cited in the Arts and Humanities Index. Articles with CU-Boulder authors comprised one of every 360 articles in the SSCI, one of every 530 in SCI, and one of every 690 in the AHCI.

• Faculty research activity brings enthusiasm, the excitment of discovery, and currency to teaching at all levels.
• Formal programs involve undergraduates in research both as assistants to faculty and as independent investigators. These include UROP, honors, the Hughes Initiative for biological sciences, and an annual undergraduate research fair. Students are involved in all kinds of faculty research: biochemistry, astronomy, civil engineering, archaeology, biology at the Mountain Research Station and in the lab, even a student-managed satellite.
• Engineering's Integrated Teaching and Learning Laboratory (ITLL) gets students involved in research from their first year, often in groups that cross class levels and disciplines. ITLL won a CCHE Centers of Excellence award in 1998. Engineering's planned Discovery Learning Center will provide a place for vertical integration of undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and industry in the research enterprise.
• Doctoral and masters students are themselves pursuing education in research methods and use.
• Research grants and contracts provide funds for research assistantships and traineeships which give students financial support and research experience. Some also fund research faculty who spend some time each year teaching.

• The Center for the American West, which explores the distinctive character and issues of the U.S. West
• The department of ethnic studies, which engages in cross-cultural studies of race and ethnicity
• All our departments of foreign language and literature, which focus on foreign cultures as well as language
• The BUENO Center in the school of education, focusing on bilingual and multicultural education
• Women's studies, doing interdisciplinary work in the humanities and social sciences
• Engineering and speech, hearing, and language science, focusing on technologies and programs to assist people with disabilities
• Individual faculty members in other departments, such as psychology, sociology, and geography