Grantee Stories

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.

Six grants and one sponsorship totaling $30,500 have been awarded by the Office for Outreach and Engagement, in partnership with the Research and Innovation Office (RIO) and the Natural Hazards Center, to support community-engaged scholarship

In May 2022, 10 graduate students in CU’s Masters in the Environment (MENV) program journeyed into the Amazon and Atlantic forests with the Colorado-Brazil Program for Sustainable Development Education to consider those intersections.

Inspired by Xóchitl Chávez, director of CU's American Music Research Center Susan Thomas secured grants to study and preserve the history of music in Pueblo and surrounding areas, and began interviews in 2021.