Education & Outreach
- <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 immersing themselves in college life and learning July 12-18 at the ñ as part of the third annual Aquetza: Youth Leadership, Education and Community Empowerment summer program.</p>
<p>Two of the five recipients of the 2015 Fulbright-National Geographic Digital Storytelling Fellowship are CU-Boulder alumni. Ari Beser (PolSci’11) and Ryan T. Bell (Hist’01) 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>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 ñ.</p>
<p>ñ 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 ñ 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>A mission to study dynamic changes in the atmosphere of Mars over days and seasons led by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) involves the ñ as the leading U.S. scientific-academic partner.</p>- <p>The National Education Policy Center (NEPC) at the ñ announced today that 17 high schools in New York and Colorado are the first to receive the “School of Opportunity” designation. These outstanding schools demonstrated a range of practices that ensured that all students had rich opportunities to succeed. All put students, not test scores, first.<br />
&;/&; - <p>A new study appearing this week in the scientific journal eLIFE about the rapid evolution of small viruses that infect bacteria includes 59 ñ co-authors, all of whom conducted research for the paper as freshmen.</p>