Grantee Stories

The Office for Outreach and Engagement is currently accepting funding proposals for the 2023-24 CU Boulder Outreach Awards. The deadline to apply is Friday, April 14 by 5 p.m. The CU Boulder Outreach Awards fund faculty-led outreach and

The Marshall Fire also spurred researchers—many of them personally affected by the fire—to pivot and apply their expertise to the aftermath. One year later, dozens of ongoing research projects continue to explore the science behind what happened that day, the widespread impacts on people, pets and the environment and how we can mitigate future catastrophes amid a changing climate.

Climate change is real, and it’s happening fast. A group of 24 eighth graders at Casey Middle School want adults to accept this as fact.When these students compared daily high temperatures from Mazatlán, in Sinaloa, Mexico and Boulder, for the years

Renée Jacobsen, public librarian and programs and community engagement manager at the Lafayette Library, is the center of a busy hub. The library employs about thirty, mostly part-time librarians. They manage many programs, including  a

Nataliya Nechyporenko is among CU scholars who are appreciating the local public library as an excellent venue to launch into learning with a diverse and dynamic community.As a member of Professor Alessandro Roncone’s Human Interaction and Robotics

For three years, an after-school cultural mentoring program in CU Boulder’s School of Education has paired two dozen predominately Latinx fifth graders from University Hill, a diverse bilingual elementary school across the street from the CU Boulder campus, with underrepresented university student mentors.

Ecomedia Colorado engages interdisciplinary and intergenerational groups in Colorado to have dialogues about local environmental issues and to create artistic representations of related scientific data.The project in Trinidad, funded by the CU

CU Science Discovery recently received two statewide awards in recognition of its efforts and achievements in STEM and environmental education.

The Office for Outreach and Engagement is pleased to announce the recipients for three of our grant cycles: CU Boulder Outreach Awards, Community Impact Grants and Micro Grants.Based on recommendations from the CU Boulder Outreach Awards Committee,

In the great Colorado eastern plains lies the town of Sterling. This rural town houses more than just beautiful scenery; it brings together ideas. During the warm weekend of July 22-23, the Logan County Economic Development Corporation and the Deming Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado Boulder hosted Demystifying Entrepreneurship: StartUp to ScaleUp.