Announcements & Deadlines
To increase the diversity of its student population, the Graduate School is incentivizing departments to redesign and expand their recruiting efforts for attracting, supporting and funding students from underrepresented groups.
Four candidates were named finalists for the dean position at the College of Engineering & Applied Science. Interviews will take place in October and early November, including virtual public sessions.
CU Boulder’s newest center combines an array of hands-on programming and partnerships to bolster leadership education for students, faculty and staff with research to advance the field of leadership studies.
Looking for funding? Check out a number of graduate student grants and fellowships whose application deadlines fall in October.
Russell Moore has named the members of the committee that will conduct a national search for a new dean for the University of Colorado Law School. The members include faculty, students, staff and community representatives such as alumni.
In a statewide effort to reduce barriers to higher education, all 32 public universities in Colorado—including CU Boulder—and several private colleges will waive admissions application fees for state residents on Oct. 13.
Thirty years after beginning her training as a postdoctoral scholar in the CU Boulder lab of Nobel laureate Thomas Cech, biochemist Jennifer Doudna won her own Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the co-development of the revolutionary genome-editing tool CRISPR-Cas9.
CU Boulder’s newest endowed professorial chair—the Sapp Family Endowed Chancellor’s Chair for Research Excellence—is the first of its kind. This $2.5 million fund allows the chancellor to support top-tier faculty in social science, education, neuropsychology and psychology.
CU Boulder research attracted $613.9 million in funding in fiscal year 2020 for groundbreaking studies that, among other things, crack the code of the teenage brain, advance electric transportation and aim to understand how odors guide behavior.
Congressman Joe Neguse has announced Elena Aranda as the winner of the 2020 Polly Baca Raices Fuertes Community Leader Award. Aranda is a professional research assistant at CU's Renée Crown Wellness Institute.