Faculty in Focus

Also known as Freedom Day, Jubilee Day and Liberation Day, Juneteenth celebrates the day when Union Army General Gordon Granger read aloud the Emancipation Proclamation in Galveston, Texas––supposedly the last place in the U.S. to hear of its passage. Learn more from Associate Professor Hillary Potter.

In mid-April, as instructor Chris Koehler was preparing to remotely teach his Pathway to Space class about the role imagination plays in our concept of space, he had an imaginative idea of his own.

About 55 million U.S. kids have been hunkered down at home the past few months, often in households where both parents work full time. In honor of Mother's Day, we caught up with CU Boulder psychology professor and mother-of-two June Gruber for her perspective and advice for working moms.

Physicist Patricia Rankin was an advisor on a new report from the National Academy of Sciences that lays out why women leave science fields—and what institutions can do to reverse that loss.

Jennifer Ho is working to cultivate conversations about race through a variety of projects at CU Boulder—especially amid widespread reports of anti-Asian discrimination surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic.

English Professor Adam Bradley has been named the 2020 recipient of the Hazel Barnes Prize, the most distinguished award a faculty member can receive from the university.

Betsy Johnson, an environmental design instructor, is making masks with her family to donate to Boulder Community Health

Once an obscure literary genre, fanfiction is now giving a voice to the voiceless and inspiring a new, more diverse generation of computer scientists.

In this interview about community-engaged work, find out how CMCI's Nathan Schneider involves community partners in his research that focuses on cooperative enterprises.

Pieter Johnson, the 2019 Hazel Barnes Prize winner, discusses his teaching philosophies and student involvement in research. Johnson's lab studies everything from emerging infections on coral reefs to parasites that castrate snails and flukes that induce deformities in frogs.