Achievement Shapes The World
CU-Boulder is one of the world’s premier public universities, with more than a dozen top 25 programs in business, engineering, law, and the arts and sciences.
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Presidents Leadership Class (PLC)
PLC, one of the nation's premiere leadership programs, has won numerous national awards for excellence over the past three decades. |
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Norlin Scholars Program
Norlin students enrich and customize their undergraduate experiences through close interaction with faculty and peers from all majors on campus. |
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Puksta Scholars Program
Puksta Scholars are required to be actively involved in an intensive, year-long civic project that will serve the community. |
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Honors Program
The Honors Program brings together the university's best teachers at CU-Boulder with high-achieving students who are seeking the challenge of becoming more critical and analytical thinkers.
College of Arts and Sciences Honors Program
College of Engineering and Applied Science Honors Program |
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Top Scholarship Office
The Top Scholarship Office works to promote and coordinate prestigious national scholarship opportunities for CU-Boulder's high-achieving students. |
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Graduation with Honors
Each college or school offers an honors distinction at graduation for students who have demonstrated exceptional work during their CU career. |
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| Learn from World-Class Faculty |
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84 CU-Boulder Faculty have been named Fulbright Scholars since 1982, including four for 2005-06. |
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Four faculty members have received Nobel
Prizes: John Hall of JILA and physics won the
2005 Nobel Prize in physics; Carl Wieman and
Eric Cornell of JILA and physics won the 2001 Nobel Prize in physics; Thomas Cech of
chemistry and biochemistry won the 1989
Nobel Prize in chemistry. |
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Seven faculty have received MacArthur
Fellowships, known as the “genius grant”:
Deborah Jin of JILA and physics (2003), Daniel
Jurafsky of linguistics (2002), Norman Pace of
molecular, cellular and developmental biology
(2001), Margaret Murnane of physics (2000),
Patricia Limerick of history (1995), Charles
Archambeau of physics (1988) and the late
David Hawkins of philosophy (1981). |
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Three faculty have been named investigators by
the Howard Hughes Medical Institute: Natalie
Ahn of chemistry and biochemistry, Kristi
Anseth of chemical and biological engineering
and Min Han of molecular, cellular and
developmental biology. |
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Nine CU-Boulder professors have received
prestigious Packard fellowships. The unrestricted
grants, worth $625,000 each in 2005,
go to young faculty who are among “the most
promising science and engineering researchers
at universities in the United States.” |
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Four CU-Boulder professors have been awarded prestigious Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Fellowships in the last two years. Margaret
Tolbert of chemistry and biochemistry (2005),
Bruce Holsinger of English (2004), John
O’Loughlin of geography (2004) and Veronica
Vaida of chemistry and biochemistry (2004)
were among only 371 fellows selected from
more than 6,200 applicants over the past two
years. Fellows are chosen for past achievements
and exceptional promise for future
accomplishments. |
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| Video Profiles |
Check out what these four students have done with their time at CU-Boulder.
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