2019 Community Talks
As part of CU Boulder's second annual Research & Innovation Week (October 14-18, 2019), the 2019 Faculty Fellows gave five-minute TED-style talks in the Gordon Gamm Theater at the Dairy Arts Center in Boulder.
Watch videos of each talk below to learn about the leading edge of research, scholarship and creative works from some of CU Boulder's most influential leaders, representing disciplines across the spectrum, including engineering, theatre, geology, education, chemistry and more.
Indigenous Resurgence and the Failure of Colonialism
Clint Carroll (Ethnic Studies)
Making the Invisible Visible
Erin Espelie (Cinema Studies; Critical Media Practices; NEST Studio for the Arts)
Exposure Outliers: Children and Disasters Yet to Come
Lori Peek (Sociology; Natural Hazards Center; Institute of Behavioral Science)
Fighting Pathogens with Purple Rain
Valerie McKenzie (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Privacy is a Social Problem
Alison Cool (Anthropology)
Cuba Becomes Her
Kaifa Roland (Anthropology)
Building with Biology
Wil V. Srubar III (Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering; Materials Science and Engineering Program)