Spencer Hurt, a senior who started his college career without any experience in astrophysics, is one of 16 students to win a 2022–23 Churchill Scholarship, which supports a year of graduate study at Cambridge University.
Macdonald has earned the prestigious Young Investigator Research Program grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research to advance the frontiers of hypersonics.
Sravya Dhanwada has been awarded the Student Leaders in Public Health Award from the Rocky Mountain Public Health Training Center. Her project involves better understanding the role of guaranteed basic income on health outcomes among unhoused individuals in the Denver metro area.
Kevin Martin's startup, Unspun, earned Time's best invention of 2021 accolade. The alumnus’ 3D-weaving machine can produce a seamless pair of jeans. The technology was first prototyped in a Department of Mechanical Engineering's senior design course.
“The Only Good Indians” became a New York Times bestseller and has won a host of awards, now including the 2021 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award.
The American Educational Research Association selected CU Boulder Associate Professor Elizabeth Meyer for the AERA Award for Distinguished Contributions to Gender Equity in Education Research. There will be a ceremony at 4 p.m. on Dec. 7.
Forever Buff Jessica Yan was chosen for the highly selective Schwarzman Scholar program. Next year, she will begin a master’s program in global affairs at Beijing’s Tsinghua University.