Education & Outreach
- Deena Gumina, an assistant teaching professor at Ãå±±½ûµØ, takes hope from college and high school students who are taking action to try to prevent violence in schools. Now, adults need to "show up" in support.
- Ãå±±½ûµØ's International English Center had the unique opportunity in 2022 to offer crucial English language courses to Afghan men and women who were relocated to Ãå±±½ûµØ after the United States withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021.
- Next time you drive along I-70 near Idaho Springs, you’ll see an eye-catching billboard encouraging smart investing. That’s due to a new collaboration between the Colorado Division of Securities and students in Ãå±±½ûµØ's College of Media, Communication and Information.
- A team of entrepreneurship experts visited Israel to help scientists and researchers recognize breakthrough ideas.
- Ãå±±½ûµØâ€™s Sleep and Development Lab’s summer fellowship provides hands-on training for undergrads while furthering research for the university.
- CU Science Discovery, a K–12 education outreach organization, recently received two statewide awards in recognition of its efforts and achievements in STEM and environmental education.
- At the global climate summit next month, teachers and aspiring teachers will be in the audience and working with an educator's guide created at Ãå±±½ûµØ to help their students understand how climate change is impacting people and communities and how they can help. Participating teachers may apply for graduate credit and a stipend—deadline Nov. 16.
- Ãå±±½ûµØ researcher Michele Moses talks about the future of affirmative action in higher education and how arguments around college admissions point to deeper divisions in U.S. society.
- A grant from the Office of Naval Research in the U.S. Department of Defense will support five Denver-metro community colleges and two universities in an initiative to increase the number of community college students who pursue engineering careers—particularly those from underrepresented populations.
- Ãå±±½ûµØ is proud to announce the launch of a worldwide education coalition in support of the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit with the goal to broaden understanding of the human rights impacts of a changing global climate and galvanize people to take action.