Announcements & Deadlines
Pay increases for classified staff as well as a bump in the campus minimum wage took effect July 1 and are part of a series of actions since 2021 to improve compensation for various faculty and staff groups.
Following a successful pilot program, Lime Scooters will be more widely available in Boulder and on the CU Boulder campus starting this month.
Alston aims to use her background as an educational leader to create a more inclusive STEM community on campus.
Katherine Clifford, a scientist at the Western Water Assessment, has been named to American Association of Geographers’ Elevate the Discipline cohort.
Two undergraduate engineering students joined the ACME Lab this summer to conduct fascinating research as part of the SMART program, which aims to foster greater diversity in access to STEM research.
Allison Kanner-Botan of Religious Studies and Isaac Javier Rivera of Geography received the 2023 Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship for Faculty Diversity. Applications for the next cycle are due by Nov. 1.
Associate Professor Wil Srubar has been nominated for the 2023 Pritzker Environmental Genius Award for his research re-imagining sustainable building materials, joining a list of candidates working to advance environmental causes around the world.
In another win for CU Boulder’s sustainability initiatives, two new electric Buff Buses have hit the streets. The campus has now replaced four aging diesel buses, with plans to electrify more of the fleet.
Luis Navarro has earned a four-year $700,000 NASA Heliophysics grant to answer important and complex scientific questions about Earth’s extreme upper atmosphere.
Svenja Knappe, who is a physicist by training but calls the Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering home, is an ideal person to be at the center of a growing cluster of quantum researchers who are ushering in the second quantum revolution on campus and abroad.