Faculty-Staff Edition - May 25, 2023

CU Boulder in partnership with the Southern Ute Department of Education announced that it will cover in-state tuition and mandatory student fees for four new students from the Southern Ute Indian Tribe annually beginning this fall.

Provost Russell Moore and Tiffany Beechy, the Boulder Faculty Assembly outgoing chair, have accepted the Faculty Salary Procedures Working Group final report submitted on May 4.

Campus leaders encourage students, staff and faculty to reflect on the history and significance of Juneteenth, traditionally celebrated on June 19. Also, a search is underway for an assistant vice chancellor for Native American affairs. Read about these updates and more.

CU Boulder has been recognized as a top volunteer-producing university by the Peace Corps, coming in at No. 5 nationally among the top 25 schools producing volunteers since 2003.

A CU Boulder faculty member has been recognized with a national excellence in teaching award from a leading group for professional, continuing and online education.

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.

This year, the Office of Faculty Affairs awarded six faculty members the first-ever Outstanding Faculty Mentoring Award, which recognizes excellence in mentorship of faculty by faculty.

A revolutionary technique for editing genomes, called CRISPR-Cas9, has already helped cure sickle cell disease in dozens of people. But it also raises ethical concerns, which a panel of preeminent scientists grappled with at an event on the CU Boulder campus.

Since the 1990s, Indigenous groups and other communities around the world have increasingly fought for, and secured, collective property rights to the land they live on. New research suggests that these arrangements can have impacts not just on ecosystems like forests but on the psychology of people.