Education & Outreach
- CU Boulder’s PhET Interactive Simulations are providing critical support to teachers, students and parents during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Some campus units will be offering virtual science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), pre-collegiate and speech disorder camps for K-12 students this summer.
- Community members can access university library resources, watch research lectures, follow an Arctic expedition, discover Latino history and more, thanks to online resources at CU Boulder.
- Through innovative uses of technology and other materials, the Build a Better Book project at CU Boulder does a whole lot more than create cool books. It challenges young people to design games and books that are fully accessible—and lots of fun.
- Fiske Planetarium is debuting two new exhibits designed by students that will give visitors a chance to get up close and personal with Earth's favorite star.
- The CU Boulder Playback Ensemble is helping communities navigate divisive topics through a form of improvisational theater, and heads to Paonia this month.
- At this fall series hosted by the School of Education, we learned about leaning into the discomfort of learning, re-humanizing education and more. Check out the updated video gallery.
- From her first course in education, Kayleigh Esswein was hooked. She always knew she wanted to teach and viewed teaching as a means for addressing educational inequities. Esswein is part of an inaugural cohort of master's students.
- Environmental design students returned from a hands-on planning studio last summer in Colombia with a broadened perspective of life in a marginalized community. Two students share their life-changing experience.
- The herbarium, a treasure trove of more than 550,000 plant specimens, is leading a plant digitization project among 39 institutions and community outreach on Navajo land with implications in local climate research.