Celebrate
Village Center Dining is the recipient of the 2025 Greenest University Restaurant Award from the Green Restaurant Association, a national nonprofit organization. The award recognizes how the dining center has gone above and beyond to adopt sustainable practices.
Venture Partners at CU Boulder bridged a historic investment gap to move a deep tech spinoff a step closer to the marketplace by awarding $100,000 in pre-seed funding to PrecisionTerra, founded by CEO Maithreyi Gopalakrishnan. Gopalakrishnan went on to win $144,000 in additional funding for the company in the 2025 New Venture Challenge.
CU has secured the No. 18 position on the National Academy of Inventors' 2024 Top 100 U.S. Universities Granted U.S. Utility Patents list. At CU Boulder, 53% of the campus's patents have been licensed commercially, signaling CU's strength in technology transfer and industry collaboration.
Experimental physicist Tuan Anh Nguyen is one of 19 recipients of this year's Hertz Fellowship, one of the most competitive and coveted doctoral fellowship programs in the nation.
The Exceptional Graduate Faculty Mentor Award recognizes the work that faculty mentors do to improve the graduate student experience.
The Buffalo Bicycle Classic boasts helping young scholars, “some of Colorado's brightest.” Four of its beneficiaries have underscored this point, winning top honors while conducting novel research on Alzheimer's disease, breast cancer and the Russia-Ukraine war.
Kelly Parkes, who is the department chair of music education in the College of Music, was recently named as a Centennial Medalist by the University of Miami in recognition of her distinguished work in music education as an outstanding alumna.
Patrick Das in Linguistics and Julia Shizuyo Popham in Ethnic Studies are among 45 doctoral students from across the country who are being recognized for their innovative approaches to their dissertation research in the humanities and social sciences.
Luke Coffman, a senior double majoring in physics and math, has been recognized for his outstanding research with a Stephen Halley White Undergraduate Research Award. The award is one of the top honors for graduating students in the Department of Physics.
Physics and astrophysics senior Sean Gopalakrishnan has been recognized for his outstanding plasma research with a Stephen Halley White Undergraduate Research Award. The award is one of the top honors for graduating students in the Department of Physics.