Announcements

CU Boulder doctoral student Tafadzwa Tivaringe recently received a prestigious invitation from the United Nations to attend the WIDER Development conference this September in Thailand. The invitation came as a result of his years spent working in Cape Town and his CU Boulder doctoral research, which includes a recent peer-reviewed...

The 2019 Children, Youth and Environments Award has been given to three CU Boulder researchers who will spend time this summer working with youth to develop participatory action research projects. The awardees are: Anna Segur a CU Boulder staff person in Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering (Program Manager for Research...

Today’s show looks at a coalition to expand voting rights to immigrant residents in Boulder County, a project developed through the Puksta Scholars program at CU Boulder. The coalition is leading the movement to generate dialogues surrounding our country’s history of voting rights. Through their outreach, they will built the...

Two accomplished faculty, Anne Becher and Nina Molinaro, have been selected for the 2019-20 CU Dialogues Faculty Fellowship. This new fellowship was created to provide summer funding and support for study and course development to a faculty member (or members) interested in integrating dialogue practice and principles into their teaching...

CU Boulder's Public Achievement program was featured on Colorado Public Radio (CPR) today in a story highlighting the work of students of color at Centaurus High School in Lafayette to make advanced classes more welcoming. According to the report, "students from low-income backgrounds and traditionally disadvantaged minorities who are ready...

This month, AMPLIFY host Jennifer Ciplet speaks with guests Nitin Beri and Heidi Harris, both undergraduate students at CU Boulder and leaders in the Swap program . Swap is a student-run, grassroots initiative at CU Boulder that builds bridges of support and solidarity between Swap volunteers, campus employees, and international...

Children, Youth and Environments Award (CYE Award)- program temporarily paused. The Children, Youth and Environments (CYE) Award (up to $5,000) will be given to support a place-based Participatory Action Research (PAR) project focused on young people aged 18 or younger during summer 2019. PAR in this context refers to participatory...

Two CU Boulder doctoral students, Wayne Freeman (Ethnic Studies) and Vanessa Roberts (Sociology), received the 2018 Children, Youth and Environments (CYE) Award to collaborate with two distinct youth leadership programs last summer. The primary CYE Award recipient, Wayne Freeman, received $4500 to support his summer research project, which emerged from...

This month, AMPLIFY host Roudy Hildreth speaks with guests Carmen Mabee and Karina Adabe, both of whom are current students participating in CU Boulder’s Public Achievement Program as TA’s, or Teaching Assistants. At CU Boulder, undergraduate students serve as Public Achievement, or “PA” coaches alongside K-12 students in Boulder and...

On the February 27 edition of AMPLIFY, host Soraya Latiff speaks with Multicultural Leadership Scholars Director Krishna Pattisapu. For anyone interested in learning more about the Multicultural Leadership Scholars, the application for Fall 2019 is open now and applications are being accepted through April 1st, 2019. Apply here. With Multicultural...