Faculty-Staff Edition - May 17, 2022

With sincere gratitude to all who helped make our first in-person commencement in three years a huge success—from marshals to golf cart drivers, ceremony coordinators and every role in between—your efforts did not go unnoticed.

Learn more about your Bright Horizons benefits and access expert-led events throughout the year covering everything from teaching kids diversity, equity and inclusion to returning to work after parental leave. Can't make it for the live event? Get the webinar recordings on demand.

CU Boulder’s acting dean of the College of Arts and Sciences has accepted a dean position at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Jim White will remain at CU Boulder through June 30.

Pre-tenure faculty whose research, scholarship or creative work was stalled by COVID-19 can now apply for the new Thrive Grant through a partnership program launched by the Office of Faculty Affairs and co-sponsored by the Boulder Faculty Assembly and the Research and Innovation Office.

Students at the Immigration Defense Clinic have represented more than 20 longtime university employees from El Salvador who have temporary protected status, which allows them to work. The clinic is helping them become permanent residents.

Doctoral student Aniya Khalili was looking for a research lab that would match her values. She found that match in 2019 with Professor Shelly Miller and was introduced to the practice of community-engaged scholarship.

Rai Farrelly, a CU Boulder linguist, has been appointed to the board of directors for the TESOL International Organization. She was selected by her peers to help lead the organization, which is the foremost global authority for teaching English, with more than 11,000 members from 169 countries.

LASP and aerospace engineering researchers will use new grant funding to advance their concept of a futuristic swarm of satellites to shed new light on how the solar wind affects Earth’s upper atmosphere.

A major research center on autonomous air mobility and sensing has been founded at CU Boulder, in partnership with the National Science Foundation.