Faculty in Focus

When it comes to 20th- and 21st-century music, Professor of Music Theory Daphne Leong—along with her colleagues in the world of rhythm in music performance and scholarship—engages in intense research and endless experimentation, which brought her to Montreal’s McGill University for a recent residency.

Associate Professor Leah Sprain’s work embraces the idea that the communication discipline is a practical discipline and that community partnerships are key components to doing scholarship well.

While his legal education at Colorado Law held the promise of further career fulfillment, what Milo Salazar did not anticipate was that it would also equip him with the tools to reconstruct his family’s Indigenous history.

In a newly published chapter, CU Boulder researcher Celeste Montoya demonstrates how social movements have influenced Latina legislative leadership in Colorado.

Samuel “Dr. Sammy” Ramsey shares how embracing all sides of himself, from his skin color and whom he loves to his beliefs and background, helped him fight to save the honeybee—and prove the naysayers wrong.

From leadership in high-tech fields to owning successful small businesses, the College of Media, Communication and Information's newest professors are poised to create incredible impacts.

Professor Martha Palmer shares her 50-year journey through the field of natural language understanding, her current research and her thoughts on new generative artificial intelligence tools.

Associate Professor of Composition Jeffrey Nytch—who directs the College of Music’s Entrepreneurship Center for Music and who was recently awarded a MacDowell Fellowship—considers the application of entrepreneurial principles as essential to his creative practice.

CU Boulder has presented Hanspeter Schaub with the 2023 Hazel Barnes Prize, the university’s largest and most prestigious single faculty award. The honor recognizes outstanding teachers who also have distinguished records in research and scholarship.

Professor Andrew Schwartz of Colorado Law discusses his new book, investment crowdfunding and the culmination of a decade’s worth of research in this field.