Education & Outreach
Alex and Zoe Kugler, students from Monarch High School, worked with CIRES Fellow Xinzhao Chu's research group to explore the relationship between aurora activity and metal layers high in the atmosphere above Antarctica.
For the past six years, Professor Sherri Tennant and team have worked in Denver with students who experience economic disadvantages and use augmentative and alternative communication systems.
This summer, nine students from colleges and universities across the U.S. have come to CU Boulder to participate in the 2025 Boulder Solar Alliance Research Experience for Undergraduates program. The students are engaging in research spanning the field of solar and space physics.
Colorado is home to numerous sites dedicated to scientific advancement—but what were the origins of these places, and what can they teach us about our path forward? Professor Hanna Rose Shell explores this question through the remarkable story of Walter Orr Roberts, drawing on her background in historical scholarship with mixed-media art making.
CU Boulder’s Rural Technical Assistance program helps rural Colorado towns use their natural assets to strengthen local economies, deepen partnerships and define their own futures.
June Gruber's science of happiness course doesn't map the way to unmitigated joy. On the contrary, the science of emotional wellness is more nuanced, and Gruber's students are sharing this message outside the classroom.
A newly planted apple orchard on the CU Boulder campus is a nexus of university and community partnerships and will be a living classroom for students and educators.
A new book by Crown Institute researchers explores how educators can cultivate compassion within themselves and work collaboratively to create more humanizing school environments.
Historian Patty Limerick embodied author George Orwell in the summer of 2024 to commemorate her 40th year in Boulder and the 75th anniversary of “1984.”
Attorneys general from 21 states have filed a lawsuit to prevent the U.S. Department of Education from cutting its workforce by half.