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The CU Teach and LA Programs were recently featured on the CU Boulder news web page. The article highlights the specific goals and outcomes for each of the programs, including their constant stride to encourage the best students to become secondary math and science teachers. Caleb Ulliman, a CU Teach...

The National Center for Atmospheric Research selected Ben Van Dusen as the winner of the NCAR art program. He will be having a 2-month showing of his math and science inspired art from December 2013 to January 2014. Congratulations Ben! Ben's designs are available at his website, a link is provided here.

Congratulations Eric! The Boulder Faculty Assembly has announced the recipients of the 2013 BFA Excellence Awards. Eric Stade was recognized for Excellence in Service as a faculty member of the Department of Mathematics, and as a lead of the Libby Residential Academic Program. Each of the BFA Excellence awardees receives...

Every year, the Society for College Science Teachers (SCST) awards the Undergraduate Science Teacher Award to a well-deserving recipient. For the 2012-2013 year, that recipient is Mike Klymkowsky. Recognition of deficiencies in student achievement have led to his developing of a new introductory chemistry program called Chemistry, Life, the Universe...

The Boulder Laptop Orchestra began as a result of an encounter between Professor John Gunther and doctoral student, Charles Dietrich. Musicians and artists produce music using a laptop, a hemispherical speaker, and numerous controls, including video game accessories. The general concept has been adapted from Princeton's Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk), which...

The National Science Foundation has funded a five-year, $4.3 million grant to revive and update a study on why undergraduates leave STEM disciplines to pursue other majors. The study, titled "Talking about Leaving Revisited", stems from and expands upon the 1990s study "Talking about Leaving: Why Undergraduates Leave the Sciences,"...

The Center for STEM Learning is now accepting Chancellor's Award applications for the 2013-2014 school year. Applications for faculty/staff and graduate awards will be due Monday, April 1, 2013. See the Chancellor's Award page for more information!

December 20, 2012 marked the official launch of the Center for STEM Learning (CSL). CSL is housed within the Graduate School and is funded by the National Science Foundation and CU-Boulder. The Center for STEM Learning developed from Integrating STEM Education, an on-campus program that facilitated communication between STEM disciplines,...