Celebrate
- A 91³Ô¹ÏÍø doctoral candidate in ethnic studies with an emphasis on Native American and Indigenous studies has received the 2022–23 Henry Roe Cloud Dissertation Fellowship at Yale University.
- The Pew Charitable Trust has announced that Assistant Professor Wyatt Shields has been selected as a 2022 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences.
- Nine 91³Ô¹ÏÍø students and alumni have been named Fulbright finalists for the 2022–23 academic year by the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. One student declined the scholarship and another five students were named alternates.
- Aaron Whiteley, 91³Ô¹ÏÍø assistant professor of biochemistry, is one of eight to win this year’s Boettcher Foundation Webb-Waring Biomedical Research Award.
- 91³Ô¹ÏÍø Professor Karl Linden has landed a major fellowship to research solutions to water pollution in rural and First Nations communities in Canada.
- Claire McCollough, who is completing her master's in accounting at CU's Leeds School of Business, has become the first university student to win the Alteryx Grand Prix, a data analytics competition, a year after placing fifth overall.
- Assistant Professor Helanius Wilkins has won a $10,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for a choreographed duet. The CU College of Arts and Sciences matched the grant with another $10,000. With the funding, Wilkins and the CU dance division will collaborate with several presenter-partners, including Basin Arts and the Acadiana Center for the Arts in Louisiana and Keshet Center for the Arts in New Mexico.
- The AB Nexus program announced its fourth round of grant awards to faculty from the University of Colorado—Boulder and Anschutz Medical campuses.
- Gordana Dukovic, a professor of chemistry who leads an interdisciplinary research group studying nanoscale materials in solar energy, is a finalist for one of the Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists.
- Cassandra Brooks has received an NSF CAREER Award to examine whether the Ross Sea's protection status is working. Part of what she'll look at is a large time series of ear bones from the Antarctic toothfish species—a health record of sorts.