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Three years after a head injury nearly left her paralyzed, University of Colorado at Boulder senior Alexis St. Jean will graduate on Friday, May 11, with a bachelor's degree in environmental design-design studies. When St. Jean came to Colorado from Georgia to start college at CU-Boulder in 2001, she took full advantage of the outdoor activities in Colorado, including snowboarding.

The ATLAS Institute's Assessment and Research Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder is a lead institution in a newly formed national alliance that will engage underrepresented minority students in computing. The Empowering Leadership Alliance is supported by a $2 million, three-year grant from the National Science Foundation.

University of Colorado at Boulder researchers are among a group of U.S. innovators who traveled to France in early May to share their expertise with French researchers who want to develop virtual speech and language therapists.

Sixteen renewable energy and sustainability research projects involving faculty and students at the University of Colorado at Boulder and scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory have been selected for funding beginning this summer.

For the first time, seniors graduating from the University of Colorado at Boulder can sign a pledge vowing to be socially and environmentally responsible citizens of the world they will enter after receiving their degrees on May 11. Graduates who sign the pledge will be recognized during the ceremony by the green cords they will be wearing over their graduation gowns.

A University of Colorado at Boulder researcher has won a $50,000 federal seed grant for work that could one day lead to the development of clinically useful and less invasive ways of studying the brain activity of children who wear implanted hearing devices. Such research could help doctors and researchers gain a greater understanding of how children acquire hearing and language skills.

University of Colorado at Boulder Professor Norman Pace has been awarded the 2007 Abbott-American Society for Microbiology Lifetime Achievement Award, the society's highest honor, for his groundbreaking research in microbial ecology.

The National Science Foundation has awarded a University of Colorado at Boulder faculty member $4.2 million in a cooperative agreement over five years to lead a national effort to model the changing face of the Earth's surface.

Bonfils-Stanton Foundation news release The Bonfils-Stanton Foundation announced today the winners of three statewide awards for lifetime achievements in Arts and Humanities, Community Service and Science and Medicine. The Awards will be presented by Foundation chairman J. Landis Martin at a luncheon on Wednesday, May 2, at the Westin Tabor Center in Denver. Often called "Colorado's Nobels," the Bonfils-Stanton Awards will be presented to: o John D. Anderson, renowned architect and pioneer in the field of sustainable design (Arts and Humanities)

Two University of Colorado at Boulder physics professors have been elected to two of the most prestigious national academies for scientists. CU-Boulder physics Professor Noel Clark was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and Deborah Jin, an adjoint associate professor of physics at CU-Boulder and a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.