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UROP celebrates its 2023 Mentor Award recipients

May 4, 2023

Christine Brennan, Jordy Bouwman and Ash Weier are the recipients of this year's Mentor Awards through the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program. Read about these exemplary mentors, as well as those who received honorable mentions.

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UROP celebrates summer student grant recipients

May 4, 2023

The Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program is pleased to announce the recipients of this summer’s student grants. These outstanding students represent a wide range of disciplines and demonstrate how undergraduates advance the university's research and creative mission.

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Meet Margot and Christopher Brauchli: Music’s Distinguished Service Award recipients

April 27, 2023

At the College of Music’s recognition ceremony on May 11, Margot and Christopher Brauchli will be honored with the College of Music’s 2023 Distinguished Service Award for their decades-long support.

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Prestigious NSF fellowships awarded to 43 graduate students

April 26, 2023

Students from across campus have received Graduate Research Fellowships, a prestigious award that recognizes and supports outstanding students in a wide variety of science-related disciplines.

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Office of Information Technology wins student success award

April 26, 2023

OIT’s Student Success Technology Team was recognized at a Salesforce summit with the Excellence in Student Success award for its work on Buff Portal Advising and related student success applications.

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Adam Holewinski receives Fulbright to synthesize renewable fuels, chemicals

April 19, 2023

Adam Holewinski, an assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering, has been awarded a prestigious fellowship to research efficient ways to produce sustainable chemical products and fuels using electricity from renewable sources such as solar and wind.

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Campus Sustainability Award winners announced for 2023

April 19, 2023

A number of campus community members, including students, faculty, department groups and more, have been selected for the Campus Sustainability Awards for innovations that reduce the university's ecological footprint, enhance social cohesion and equity, and integrate sustainability into the culture of Boulder and local communities.

Albert Velasco Abadia

Doctoral student honored for shape-changing ‘smart’ materials research

April 19, 2023

Albert Velasco Abadia was awarded the prestigious Materials Research Society Graduate Student Gold Award for his research using biological catalysts—also known as enzymes—for triggering shape reconfigurations in liquid crystal network “smart” materials.

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Announcing the 2023 Marinus Smith Award recipients

April 14, 2023

Fifteen faculty and staff members were recognized this year through the Marinus Smith Awards for the positive impacts they have made on their students.

Dimitri Nakassis

Archaeologist wins National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship

April 13, 2023

Dimitri Nakassis, a professor in the Department of Classics and former “genius grant” winner, has landed NEH support to complete a paradigm-shifting study of ancient Greece.

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