Celebrate

Sabrina Spencer, assistant professor of biochemistry and member of the BioFrontiers Institute at CU Boulder, is one of five new winners of a 2021 Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award.

Distinguished Professor Christopher Bowman of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering, one of the highest professional distinctions accorded to engineers.

The BFA Excellence Awards recognize outstanding work and a concerted effort to make advances in the academy. Learn more about the 2021 recipients, chosen for excellence in: leadership and service; research, scholarly and creative work; and teaching and pedagogy.

The Center for Leadership is pleased to present the recipients of the Newton Endowed Chair in Leadership Student Leaders of the Year Award, which recognizes outstanding student leaders on campus.

The U.S. Department of State announced the selection of Olivia Livneh of CU Boulder's International English Center for a prestigious 10-week English Language Specialist project this spring.

Five CU Boulder students have earned Brooke Owens Fellowships. The highly competitive program provides paid internships and mentoring to exceptional undergraduate women seeking careers in aviation or space exploration.

The National Academy of Inventors announced that CU Boulder researchers Mark Rentschler, Greg Rieker and Tin Tin Su have been designated as NAI senior members, in recognition of their impact on society through extraordinary innovation.

Staff Council is excited to honor Linda Frueh Wellmann, who has served at CU Boulder for 50 years. Enjoy a short autobiography that highlights Frueh Wellman's time on campus and some of the memories she’s collected, as well as a note from a Nobel Prize laureate.

Michael Litos, an assistant professor of physics at CU Boulder, has won an Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation.

Akhil Rao has won a dissertation award of which only two are given annually in recognition of unusually significant contributions to one's discipline.