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From hosting a community event in Leadville, CO to addressing environmental and climate hazards in prisons and jails, grantees received more than $47,000 for their community-engaged scholarship projects.
Designed in collaboration with the Autism Society of Boulder County, Fiske Planetarium hosts a monthly series of free sensory-friendly experiences intended for children with autism spectrum and sensory processing disorders.
Aspiring filmmaker and CU Boulder senior Francesca Hiatt’s short film, Cherry Yogurt, relies on subtlety to touch on grief and support, viewed through children’s eyes
Every year, an undergraduate student who demonstrates exemplary leadership is nominated for Campus Compact’s Newman Civic Fellowship, which supports student leaders who show great potential for tackling human rights and social justice issues.
Earlier this month, Chancellor Schwartz accepted the recommendations of the Chancellor’s Task Force on Outreach to create a “hub and spoke” model of coordinated outreach and community engagement to better support the campus’s vast outreach efforts and maximize engagement and partnerships with communities across the state and region.
The Office for Public and Community-Engaged Scholarship (PACES) is pleased to announce that Associate Professor Benjamin Teitelbaum will serve as the new faculty director for strategic events and public discourse. Learn more about Teitelbaum, what we can expect from CWA 2026 and how you can be involved.
Engineering students with the Science Engineering Inquiry Collaborative in Rural Colorado (SCENIC) program developed a hands-on “erosion challenge” for K-12 students to learn about the effects of flash flooding on infrastructure.
Amanda Giguere is the director of outreach for the Colorado Shakespeare Festival (CSF) and the founder of the Shakespeare and Violence Prevention Program. Since 2011, she and her colleagues and other community partners in the violence prevention field have adapted and staged Shakespeare’s plays to see how the content and approaches can reinforce violence-prevention skills in K-12 students.
The University of Colorado Boulder strives for innovation, continually looking towards the future. But envisioning the future requires remembering the past. Colorado is home to numerous sites dedicated to scientific advancement—but what were the origins of these places, and what can they teach us about our path forward?
For the past six years, Sherri Tennant, Assistant Clinical Professor of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences (SLHS) at CU Boulder, and her team have worked in Denver with CCN students who experience economic disadvantages and use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) systems.