Stories of Arts & Sciences

Like Colorado ‘resisters,’ CU casts a wary eye at AI

But a liberal-arts education in the classical sense is the best guarantor of AI’s potential benefits and our best defense against its likely harms

A&S Highlight: October 2026

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Medium

Jun Ye’s strontium clock resolved a gravitational redshift of roughly 10⁻¹⁹ per millimeter across a cloud of atoms less than a fingernail wide. He and Immanuel Bloch just shared the 2026 Wolf Prize for turning the quantum world into an instrument you can build.

CU Spotlight:
Jun Ye
Monroe Endowed Professor of Physics | Professor Adjoint | Fellow - JILA |

Daily Camera

International Film Series was established in 1941 and its director said films will flourish with Muenzinger Auditorium’s facelift.

CU Spotlight:
Jason Phelps
International Film Series director
Department of Cinema Studies and Moving Image Arts

Colorado Sun

A CU scientist spent her career in AI and says the timeline for averting disaster is very, very short.

CU Spotlight:
Martha Palmer
Research professor of linguistics

Earth.com

A rare estuary carved into Greenland’s Petermann Ice Shelf, potentially weakening the ice before a Manhattan-sized piece broke away.

CU Spotlight:
Michela Savignano
PhD student of geography

Teaching Russian at ñ was not her plan

Elizabeth Shevchenko Wittenberg was born in China, detained in World War II Japan and fully embraced her American life; a scholarship named for her describes her life in 54 words. Here is the rest of the story.

A&S Highlight: October 2026

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2026 Wolf Prize in Physics

The award is often considered the second most prestigious award in the physical sciences after the Nobel Prize.

Award winner: Jun Ye, Monroe Endowed professor of physics

Association for Asian Studies

Lauren Collins, program director and teaching assistant professor, Asian studies

Semiconductor Research Corporation Innovation Award

Recognizing groundbreaking innovations in atomic layer etching technology that have had a transformative impact on semiconductor manufacturing.

Award winner:Steven George, professor of chemistry

NIH National Institute on Aging grant

A $3.7 million grant supporting the five-year project “Life Course Cognability: A Mixed Methods Study of Neighborhoods and Cognitive Health," examining how neighborhood services, amenities and hazards influence cognitive health and dementia risk across adulthood.

Recipient: Jessica Finlay, assistant professor of geography

Supporting work on Silver Linings, a new book that challenges the traditional deficit-focused view of mental illness.

Fellow: June Gruber, professor of psychology and neuroscience

Society of Woman Geographers' Evelyn L. Pruitt Fellowship

For the project ""

Award winner:Esmee Mulder, geography PhD student