Celebrate
Professor Dan Zhang was recently honored with a teaching award for enthusiasm, engagement and his Advanced Analytics course for MBA students, which includes teachings in the R programming language.
Four doctoral students in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences are being recognized with 2022 NASA Space Technology Graduate Research Opportunities fellowships.
ñ Assistant Professor Laura Dee has been named an Ecological Society of America Early Career Fellow, a reflection of her contributions so far and to come.
The University of Colorado women’s tennis team was named to the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Women’s All-Academic Team, along with four individuals.
ñ recently received national honors for three campus videos—two recounting community efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic and one highlighting the ñ Police Department.
ñ students Alexandra “Sasha” Gladkova and Maya Palmer have each been awarded a $15,000 scholarship from the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation. The merit-based scholarship is the largest known monetary award of its kind given in the U.S. to science and engineering undergraduate students.
Six faculty members within the College of Engineering and Applied Science received CAREER Awards from the National Science Foundation. The total continues a trend of significant early-career recognition for faculty over the last three years, said Acting Associate Dean for Research Shideh Dashti.
Gilberto Briscoe-Martinez wants robots to be able to learn from their mistakes and continue persevering to finish a task as best they can. A recent award to him will provide four years of research funding and NASA collaboration.
A ñ 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.