Broader Impacts

CU Science Discovery's award-winning Broader Impacts support team offers a variety of opportunities for CU Boulder faculty to share their STEM research with broad public audiences, while fulfilling National Science Foundation (NSF) and other Federal grant Broader Impacts requirements. Faculty partners connect their scientific work to Science Discovery’s outreach efforts in a variety of ways.

Examples of Broader Impacts activities: 

  • Contributing content and expertise to Science Discovery classes, camps or outreach programs for K-12 students
  • Mentoring high school student researchers
  • Providing visiting K-12 students a window into your research while on campus or at a local field site
  • Providing hands-on teacher training and follow-up support through school and teacher programs
  • Involving graduate students and post-docs in outreach programs
  • Contributing scientific expertise, resources and equipment
  • Ensuring scientific accuracy of education materials

Recent successfully funded Broader Impacts collaborations:

  • Aerospace Engineering Sciences (NASA SUITS Team)
  • Aerospace Engineering Sciences (Tomoko Matsuo)
  • Anthropology (William Taylor)
  • Applied Mathematics (Nancy Rodriguez)
  • Chemical and Biological Engineering (C. Wyatt Shields)
  • Chemical and Biological Engineering (Konane Bay)
  • Chemical and Biological Engineering (Laurel Hind)
  • Computer Science (Ashutosh Trivedi)
  • Computer Science (ChenHao Tan)
  • Computer Science (Tom Yeh)
  • Computer Science (Orit Peleg and Zachary Kilpatrick)
  • Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering (Yida Zhang)
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (Scott Taylor)
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (Laura Dee)
  • Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering (Emiliano Dal'Anese)
  • Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering (Juliet Gopinath)
  • Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering (Xudong Chen)
  • Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering (Jorge Poveda)
  • Environmental Studies (Daniel Doak and Megan Peterson)
  • Environmental Studies (Laura Dee)
  • Environmental Studies (Steve Miller)
  • Geography (Katherine Lininger)
  • Geological Sciences (Lizzy Trower)
  • Mathematics (Sean O'Rourke)
  • Mechanical and Environmental Engineering (Marina Vance)
  • Mechanical and Environmental Engineering (Carson Bruns)
  • McMurdo-Dry Valleys LTER (Michael Gooseff)
  • Niwot Ridge LTER (Nancy Emery)
  • Physics (Shuo Sun)
  • Physics (Nuris Figueroa-Morales)
  • Soft Materials Research Center (Noel Clark)
  • STROBE (Margaret Murnane)

Interested in bringing your science to K-12 students, teachers and the community? Contact Alexandra Rose via email.

Broader Impacts Intake Form

scientist talking to small child at outreach event

CU Science Discovery is excited to support the design and implementation of efficient and rewarding broader impact activiites. Our involvement ranges from providing advice and connections to help you reach your goals to creating work that is crafted from your expertise and ideas. Our philosophy is that broader impacts work should integrate as seamlessly as possible into your research agenda, it should be a reflection of your lab’s interests and aptitudes, and ideally, it should be something that feels rewarding enough for you to want to do, even outside of a grant’s timeframe. We can't wait to work with you!

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