Pushing Boundaries

CU Boulder researcher June Gruber is kicking off a new season of “The Ampersand” podcast in a conversation about all the feelings, not just the positive ones.

Most Americans will face legal issues at some point in their lives. Yet, across the nation, a persistent access-to-justice gap exists. Professor Staci Pratt wants to empower students to be part of the solution and hopes her new course can be a new frontier.

How does pop culture reflect and inform cultural values? The unique media studies programs in the College of Media, Information and Communication challenge students to become critics of culture and “kind of as evangelists” for improving society.

CU Boulder’s Mountain Research Station has a three-pronged mission: host some of the most influential and long-running ecological research in the world, give students a peerless education in mountain environments, and link the public to educational resources about important ecosystems.

Andrew Cowell is a CU Boulder linguistics professor specializing in language documentation and linguistic anthropology. In 2003, he, along with faculty and students in the linguistics department, began documenting the Arapaho language to revitalize it for current and future members of the Arapaho nation.

As the deep tech startup scene rapidly grows, the Ascent Deep Tech Accelerator, created by Venture Partners at CU Boulder, helps founders move past sticking points to hit critical milestones in transitioning their technologies from lab to marketplace.

Case competitions offer students an opportunity to take on real-world, “wicked” problems with the knowledge and skills they develop in the classroom. Leeds business students share their experiences.

CU Boulder's physics department and engineering college have launched the Quantum Scholars program to develop the next-generation quantum workforce.

Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi told an audience on the CU Boulder campus April 7 that democracy in Iran will rise up from the current movement being led by the nation's women.

Five promising startups comprise the first cohort of companies to receive investments from the Buff Venture Fund. The fund is the newest opportunity for CU Boulder startups to access critical funding on the path to success.