Announcements & Deadlines
- CU Boulder’s enrollment numbers bounced back this fall, according to new enrollment data published Wednesday. The campus’s fall census marked undergraduate enrollment at 29,511 students, a 1.8% increase from fall 2020.
- Boulder City Council took the next step toward approval of the proposed CU Boulder South annexation agreement. It also honored the late Frances Draper, a longtime university employee, for her instrumental leadership and collaborative spirit.
- With a three-year grant, the University Libraries' Rare and Distinctive Collections and the Department of Cinema Studies & Moving Image Arts will explore curriculum-building for an undergraduate certificate program on media archiving and preservation.
- Lisa Marshall, associate director of science storytelling in Strategic Relations and Communications, won a Silver Media Relations award from PRSA Colorado in 2021 for her story "New COVID-19 test returns results in 45 minutes, without nasal swab."
- John and Ann Harsh are creating a scholarship for first-generation and underrepresented students studying integrative physiology, as well as a bequest to establish the first endowed faculty chair in the Department of Integrative Physiology and directorship of the Health Professions Residential Academic Program.
- Four CU Boulder aerospace graduate students have been named 2021 Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology.
- The University of Colorado Boulder has received a $2 million gift from The Anschutz Foundation to support the university’s diverse research in aerospace and national defense—from tracking and protecting satellites in orbit to improving the security of mobile devices.
- As the world of live theater strives to resume this fall after a long pandemic hiatus, alumna, arts aficionado and philanthropist Roe Green is helping welcome students and the community back with a record-breaking $5 million gift for the CU Boulder theater program.
- Startup company founders who commercialize their CU Boulder research innovations will be getting a boost in 2022. Ascent will help founders launch their companies, raise investment capital and gain market and partnership traction.
- We’re thrilled to introduce Raven Dow-Hygelund and Anna Kallinikos as the most recent recipients of the College of Music’s Sher Distinguished Musician Scholarship.