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ñ students engage in conversation while studying abroad in China. The program to send students abroad to China has been buoyed by a $1.2 million gift from the Tang Fund of New York. This group was led by journalism Professor Meg Moritz in
In February, Clare Boland and her professor, Rebecca Safran of ecology and evolutionary biology, are guest speakers in a new course at the ñ that aims to explore innovative, creative and effective ways to convey climate-change science and its implications. That course, called “Inside the Greenhouse,” is team-taught by two faculty members: Beth Osnes and Maxwell Boykoff from theatre and dance and environmental studies, respectively.
Hip-hop music could turn young people on to higher education, perhaps even persuade them to study at the ñ.
Professor Fred Anderson directs the ñ’s Honors Program, received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1981 and has taught in CU’s History Department since 1983. He’s held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities,
Even as a boy, it was clear that Van MacDonald was brilliant, but odd.He was a math and science whiz fascinated by physics yet confounded by social interactions.When enrolled as a physics major at CU-Boulder in the late ’50s, he had the advantage of
In 1988, Deborah Haynes interviewed with Antonette “Toni” Rosato for a position as a professor of Art and Art History at CU-Boulder. Not only did Haynes land the job, she began one of the most meaningful friendships of her life.
Katie Grasha attended high school in Montrose, a Colorado community nestled in the pastoral Uncompahgre Valley, a place still so rural that its night sky twinkles with stars.Grasha, who recently graduated from the University of Colorado with a
Outdoor filmmaker Michael Brown was always primed for adventure. He grew up on a Montana ranch and his father earned a living making movies about skiing. He had his own horse, milked cows before sunrise and had “Clydesdales dragging us around on a
CU alumnus, author to appear at Conference on World AffairsWhen Frank Islam talks about the American dream, he knows whereof he speaks.Born in India, Islam immigrated to the United States at 15. He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer
New center preserves work of CU filmmaker Stan Brakhage, aims to be a hub for other experimental mediaStan Brakhage loved poetry and befriended poets but considered himself a failed poet. Many experts disagreed. He was, they said, a consummate poet