BSI News and Announcements

Congratulation to Ella Hushka and Abby Kimball for earning prestigious NSF graduate fellowships. The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) helps ensure the vitality of the human resource base of science and engineering in the United States and reinforces its diversity. The program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in...

‘I fell in love with space that day. I didn’t even know I liked space,’ student Maureen McNamara notes Decades from now, when Maureen McNamara looks back on her career, she says that she will still vividly remember the defining moment when she knew that she wanted a space-related career...

Having finished her thesis and undergraduate studies, Rea said she can look back on her time at CU Boulder with fond memories and good humor In middle school, Jessica Rea was fascinated by the gruesome injury of Phineas Gage, a railroad foreman who miraculously survived an 1848 explosion that shot...

Calling all CU Boulder undergraduate research assistants working in biosciences-related labs! Applications for the Summer 2020 BSI Scholars in STEM Undergraduate Research are now available. BSI Scholars is a funding, professional development and mentoring program for CU Boulder undergraduates. Eligible students conducting STEM research may apply for funding to support...

Xenna the service dog helps Jon do laboratory research Canine support companions help people with disabilities succeed in many environments, and now, for the first time at the University of Colorado Boulder, a service dog is enabling a wounded military veteran to pursue his dream of hands-on research in neuroscience...

This week BSI welcomed a new cohort of BSI Scholars. These students are working on a diverse range of projects. Some project titles include: "Thermoregulatory differences between black-capped and mountain chickadee nests"; "Investigation of the adenosine neurotransmitter signaling in cocaine addiction"; "Genomic overlap search engine"; and "The effect of biochemical...

Last week, BSI kicked off the 2019-20 academic year with our Continuing BSI Scholars program. These students have previously received research funding through BSI, and their funding this year will support their continued efforts in research labs across campus. Congratulations to BSI Scholar Major(s) Research Department Raven Jayne Anthropology Anthropology...

Are you an undergraduate working in a CU lab conducting biosciences-related research? Apply to the 2019-20 BSI Scholars funding and professional development program! Eligible students conducting original STEM research are paid to work in a laboratory on the CU Boulder or CU Denver Anschutz Medical Campus. Students also attend seminars...

In recent years, numerous studies have shown that people who don’t get enough sleep are at greater risk of stroke and heart attack. A new CU Boulder study , published in the journal Experimental Physiology and i s co-authored by two former BSI funded undergraduate researchers Ma'ayan Levy and Grace...

As finals wrapped up at the end of the spring 2019 semester, a group of 32 undergraduate students at CU Boulder were welcomed into the BSI Scholars Summer 2019 program. These students, who are working in research laboratories across twelve different departments on the CU Boulder and Anschtuz campuses, attended...