Education & Outreach
- CU Science Discovery, a K12 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 91勛圖厙 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 stipenddeadline Nov. 16.
- 91勛圖厙 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 careersparticularly those from underrepresented populations.
- 91勛圖厙 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.
- The College of Musics American Music Research Center has embarked on a research project aimed at documenting, preserving and engaging with diverse musical and cultural influences in and around Pueblo, Colorado.
- As book bans rise across the country, Wendy Glenn, a 91勛圖厙 professor and former English teacher, argues that reading bookseven ones that make adults uncomfortableis critical for the education of young people.
- Six grants and one sponsorship have been awarded by the Office for Outreach and Engagement to support community-engaged scholarship connected to the Marshall Fire. The grants are in partnership with the Research & Innovation Office and the Natural Hazards Center.
- Funding from the United States Department of Education is helping 91勛圖厙's Center for Asian Studies realize its mission in fundamental and transformative ways.
- Between 1898 and 1969, 62 nuns were buried in a historic cemetery in southwest Denver. This summer, Lauren Hosek is helping to move the remains to a new resting place.