The 2021 CU Boulder Solar District Cup competition team

Engineering students win 1st place in national Solar District Cup contest

May 21, 2021

An interdisciplinary team of CU Boulder engineering students has aced the 2021 Solar District Cup Collegiate Design Competition.

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Data accessibility: Leveling the field for those with intellectual, developmental disabilities

May 21, 2021

Ensuring people have access to information and understand its implications is more important than ever. However, research led by Keke Wu finds that for those with intellectual or developmental disabilities, some kinds of data visualizations are harder to interpret than others.

Researchers in computer lab

New data science, machine learning offerings open professional doors

May 21, 2021

Seeing a need for working professionals to refresh or enhance their understanding of data science and machine learning without devoting months or years to training, CU Boulder launched Tech Frontiers, a short-form education series kicking off this summer.

Todd Whittaker

Todd Whittaker wins GPSG Outstanding Research Assistant Award

May 21, 2021

Todd Whittaker, a first-year doctoral candidate in the Holewinski and Musgrave groups, is the Graduate and Professional Student Government Outstanding Research Assistant Award winner for 2021.

Students stick their heads out of car sunroofs as part of a car parade.

Amid a pandemic, educators reimagine the future of K-12 schools

May 20, 2021

Education researchers are increasingly seeing the COVID-19 pandemic as an opportunity to rethink how we teach kids in the United States, making school curricula more relevant to the lives of young people.

Reiland Rabaka

Why African and African American studies matter: Q&A with Reiland Rabaka

May 20, 2021

Reiland Rabaka discusses what it means for the Center for African and African American Studies to be established, what he envisions it becoming, and how students, faculty and the community will benefit from it now and for years to come.

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CU Boulder announces Center for African and African American Studies

May 20, 2021

CU Boulder’s newest center supports teaching, research and creative work on the history, culture and struggles of people of African descent. It will also provide Black students, staff and faculty a permanent space for building community and more.

Old Main in Spring

CU Boulder announces budget cuts for fiscal year 2022

May 20, 2021

While budget cuts are set to take place, the university is also positioning itself to end the past year’s pay reductions and furloughs, increase the minimum wage, extend the four-year tuition guarantee and more.

A Protect Our Herd–face covering required sign at the entrance of Farrand Field

COVID-19 campus updates: May 20 edition

May 20, 2021

In the last of this series for the summer, learn about our Level Clear county status; how to complete the campus vaccine requirement documentation or exemption request; and more.

Aerospace engineering students in classroom

Doctoral student’s hypersonics modeling research honored

May 19, 2021

Pawel Sawicki of the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences is the lead author on a paper that recently won an award. Read more from Sawicki about the work and why his college and department are becoming a national powerhouse in the field of hypersonics.

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