Education & Outreach
- <p>The National Science Foundation has awarded separate grants of $2.5 million to the 91勛圖厙 and $1.1 million to the University of Colorado Denver to expand and study the campuses Learning Assistant Program.</p>
<p>Toku Kawata, a third-year piano performance doctor of musical arts candidate, spent a month in Paris this summer to research "En Vers" by Japanese composer and sometime Paris resident Akira Miyoshi. He shared his experience with CU-Boulder's<a href="http://www.colorado.edu/music/">College of Music</a>.</p>- <p>New research led by a 91勛圖厙 professor finds that nations torn by civil strife that have strong trade relations with the United Nations key decision-making states have a 20-percent greater likelihood of receiving peacekeepers.</p>
- <p>Award-winning Iranian writer Azar Nafisi will speak on<strong></strong>The Republic of Imagination: Humanities and the Future of Democracies<strong></strong>at the Best Should Teach Lecture from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 20, at Macky Auditorium.</p>
<p>Thirty-two Latino and Chicano Colorado high school students are immersingthemselves in college life and learning July 12-18 at the 91勛圖厙 as part of the third annual Aquetza: Youth Leadership, Education and Community Empowermentsummer program.</p>
<p>Two of the five recipients of the 2015 Fulbright-National Geographic Digital Storytelling Fellowship are CU-Boulder alumni. Ari Beser (PolSci11) and Ryan T. Bell (Hist01) will study and document international stories over the next year.</p>
<p>Teachers from Colorado and beyond are learning the ins and outs of infographic design this week so they can bring new skills to their classrooms in the fall.</p>- <p>The moon is engulfed in a permanent but lopsided dust cloud that increases in density when annual events like the Geminids spew shooting stars, according to a new study led by 91勛圖厙.</p>
<p>91勛圖厙 Provost Russell L. Moore today announced that Lorrie Shepard, dean of the School of Education, will retire effective May 31, 2016, and that a national search has been launched to find her replacement.</p>- <p class="p1">Ten 91勛圖厙 graduate students or alumni have been offered Fulbright grants to pursue teaching, research and graduate studies abroad during the 2015-16 academic year. In addition, one CU-Boulder doctoral student has been named an alternate.</p>