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At CU Boulder, the Learning Assistant program is inpsiring students to consider a career in education while improving learning experiences and outcomes across campus.

"Chemistry, Life, the Universe and Everything," supported by the Association of American Universities and developed by CU professor Mike Klymkowsky and MSU professor Melanie Cooper, improves learning in chemistry while saving nearly a million dollars of student monies each semester.

The five-year project will yield a new national resource that will impact individual centers and campuses and provide a new platform for systemic transformation of undergraduate STEM education.

The National Science Foundation has awarded separate grants of $2.5 million to CU-Boulder and $1.1 million to CU Denver to expand and study the Learning Assistant Programs on both campuses.

The Chancellor's Awards for Excellence in STEM Education were established in 2009 to support faculty and graduate student engagement in innovative research on student learning and implementation of research-based STEM education program initiatives. Up to $10,000 faculty/staff awards and graduate student awards (part-time, 25% during the academic year, 50% during...

Inspired by the past and building toward the future, a new outreach program at the University of Colorado is tapping educators to promote discussion of teaching and learning in schools and communities across the state. Receiving the honor of being named the inaugural Timmerhaus Teaching Ambassador is Noah Finkelstein, Ph.D.,...

CU Boulder is one of eight project sites chosen for the AAU's Undergraduate STEM Education Initiative. You can now read more about the project and its progress to date by visiting the project website at www.colorado.edu/csl/aau/ .

The Boulder Faculty Assembly has announed that Mike Klymkowsy, CSL fellow, is one of the 2014 Excellence in Teaching award recipients . Congratulations, Mike! Read the full article .

An interview with CSL fellow, Stan Deetz, has been published in the January 23, 2014 edition of CU Connections . Read the full article .

Steven Pollock, one of the first recipients of the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in STEM Education, has been named U.S. Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. Read more in the Daily Camera , the...