Academics
- In the fall, the LMS Evaluation Initiative project team conducted a study to gather feedback about faculty and graduate teaching assistant experiences with campus learning management systems (LMS). Reports on the results are now available.
- CU Boulder’s graduate offerings—in environmental law, environmental engineering, aerospace engineering sciences and other areas—are once again named among the nation’s best.
- Assistant Professor Thora Brylowe brought an innovative approach to her English course last fall, pledging to "depart from the lecture/discussion format" and emphasize hands-on project-based learning.
- What makes us argue so heatedly over things we know so little about? Philip Fernbach, assistant professor of marketing at Leeds School of Business, has received a grant to conduct research exploring how to improve public discourse.
- The Physics Teacher Education Coalition recently announced CU Boulder's induction into The 5+ Club, a group of institutions recognized for graduating five or more physics teachers in a given year.
- Carrie Davidson, a senior studying journalism and art history, challenges fellow students to reconsider what they are "supposed to do" and instead follow their own path.
- There’s a new office space on campus that anyone can use. The rental is free, the WI-FI works great and — being outdoors — the views are spectacular.
- The new Center for the Study of Origins, a Grand Challenge initiative, provides "an interdisciplinary nexus for humanists, social scientists and natural scientists to engage in exciting and inspirational opportunities to address origins theories from a variety of perspectives," says Provost Russell Moore.
- Clint Carroll, assistant professor of ethnic studies and citizen of the Cherokee nation, will help preserve tribal tradition and knowledge through a five-year grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
- When faced with the challenge of choosing a major among more than 90 options at CU Boulder, what can a student do? The task might seem daunting, especially for students interested in multiple subjects.