Beyond Boulder

From trailblazing research to cultivating the future workforce, the University of Colorado has been the epicenter of the state’s space research sector since 1948.

In the spring of 2022, Morgan Chudd spent a semester studying in Washington with the CU in D.C. program. While interning with the governmental relations firm Potomac Advocates as a research analyst, she also gleaned lifelong professional experience.

Shelby Buckley has made the research trip of a lifetime—studying the impacts of climate change up close and personal on a five-week trip to the Arctic aboard an icebreaking ship.

Last summer, 18 Earth science data corps interns completed an immersive summer internship program with CU Boulder, Oglala Lakota College, United Tribes Technical College, Metropolitan State University of Denver and CIRES' Earth Lab, bringing new perspectives to studies of birds, water and Indigenous lands.

A panel of CU Boulder and local municipal government leaders agreed there are a variety of actions U.S. citizens can take to support the current protests in Iran—primarily by listening to and following the lead of the Iranian people themselves.

Map the System offers CU Boulder students the chance to present their ideas for addressing deeply rooted issues at an international competition sponsored by Oxford University.

Over the course of nine months, the CU Trailblazers built and launched an eight-foot high-powered rocket for the First Nations Launch competition.

Poor communities and developing countries are disproportionately vulnerable to extreme weather and changing environments. As the costs of global climate action add up, there is growing consensus that the world’s polluters should foot most of the bill. Learn from panelists at the upcoming Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit.

As climate change increasingly threatens the environment and the people who depend upon it, Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit panelist Kera Sherwood-O’Regan serves as a vocal advocate not only for her fellow Māori—the Indigenous people of New Zealand—but also for people with disabilities. Learn more about Sherwood-O'Regan and how to get involved in the summit.

When Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit panelist and activist Hilda Flavia Nakabuye was growing up in Uganda, her family owned a small plantation. Long periods of climate change-fueled drought, interrupted by fierce storms, destroyed most of her family’s chief source of food and income. Learn more about Flavia Nakabuye and the summit.