Your Intersectional Lens

Exploring

By engaging your open questions in conversation with mentors, you can clarify your values and develop your identity—which might still feel like an open question. Your curiosity is a powerful tool that is unique to you because it’s an expression of your individual identity with all its' intersections, providing you a singular lens to examine your context (and a way for others to see new possibilities).

 
 

All aspects of your identity and unique approach to processing your experience, or “ways of knowing,” gives you valuable insight and enables your curiosity. Your particular, lived experience provides a wealth of knowledge and perspective that forms the foundation of your understanding and can take many forms. Your identity gives you a lens on your context that can reveal new ways of seeing old ideas and new possibilities.

 

An intersection of knowledge and knowing informed by lived experience with a unique lens for the interpretation of information.

Areas of Knowledge

  • History

  • Natural Science

  • Religion

  • Mathematics

  • Ethics

  • Human Science

  • The Arts

  • Indigenous Knowledge

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Language

Gender Identity

Physical Abilities

Economic Status

Sexual Orientation

Ethnicity

Nationality

Ways of Knowing

  • Emotion

  • Memory

  • Intuition

  • Sense Perception

  • Imagination

  • Faith

  • Language

How might components of your identity work with your ways of knowing to provide a new perspective on an established idea or point to an unexplored idea?

 

 

Summer 2025

Open Opportunities

Explore funded, open opportunities mentored by CU Boulder faculty!

 

 

Academic Year 2025-26

The Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) represents an opportunity to enable student-centered education that makes the most of CU Boulder’s global leadership in research and creative production. With well-documented benefits from persistence to postgraduate success, engagement in the research and creative life of the university can clarify career paths and prepare students for the future of work. Donations support empowering opportunities in all fields of study. Give Now.