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Seventeen students are named 2021 Van Ek Scholars

May 12, 2021

This year’s recipients of the notable College of Arts and Sciences’ award are especially distinct, the chair of the award committee notes Seventeen exceptional undergraduates are this year’s recipients of the Jacob Van Ek scholarship, one of the College of Arts and Sciences’ highest honors. The award recognizes faculty-nominated students...

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Students, staff and faculty honored for diversity efforts

April 7, 2021

Recipients, chosen by faculty committee, ‘work tirelessly and most times in the dark’ for diversity and inclusion.

Created by Daniel Martin and Katherine Stange at ICERM’s Fall 2019 semester, Illustrating Mathematics.

CU Boulder mathematicians named Simons Fellows in Mathematics

April 6, 2021

Support aims to allow scholars to focus solely on research for the ‘long periods often necessary for significant advances in their disciplines’.

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Mathematician on the front lines of Colorado’s coronavirus response

June 18, 2020

At the start of 2020, David Bortz, like most Coloradans, didn’t know what a coronavirus was. For the last few months, tracking this virus is practically his full-time job.

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Five college standouts named employees of the year

April 16, 2019

Five outstanding colleagues have been named employees of the year by the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder.

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Student helps tell stories of Boulder’s ‘Forgotten Neighbors’

Feb. 4, 2019

Keegan McNamara, a CU Boulder mathematics student, intends to give a voice to Boulder’s homeless

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Scholarship recipients thank donors, in person, for their help

May 22, 2018

Peter Rock is among scores of students whose tuition costs have been reduced thanks to donors and among the scholarship recipients and scholarship donors who recently shared lunch and conversation.

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Scholar recognized for math-education excellence

April 27, 2018

Eric Stade is the newest recipient of the American Mathematical Society’s Award for Impact in the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics.

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CU Boulder to help boost 'active learning' in STEM education

Feb. 6, 2018

The University of Colorado Boulder has been chosen by the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) to help lead the SEMINAL project—a study funded by the National Science Foundation researching how to best incorporate “active learning” into math classrooms.

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Author refuses to ‘dumb down’ the story

Nov. 30, 2017

David Zindell (Math ‘84) has joined an increasing number of successful authors in stepping away from traditional publishing — no more contracts, no more agents, no more writing to the dictates of someone else’s bottom line. Today, he's writing for the "pure joy of writing — the best motive of all for writing.”

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