Beyond Boulder
For Yeb Saño, the effects of climate change became tragically clearer on Nov. 8, 2013, when Super Typhoon Haiyan made landfall in Southeast Asia. Learn more about Saño, a panelist at the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit, and the experiences that shaped him.
Millions of people don’t think twice when turning on the tap, but Indigenous activist and Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit panelist Tia Kennedy never takes a glass of water for granted. As a member of both the Oneida Nation of the Thames and Walpole Island First Nation, her connection to water is ancient. Learn more about Kennedy and how to get involved in the summit.
Senior Virginia Weiskopf and doctoral candidate Emily Nocito, both in environmental studies, headed to the United Nations to research marine conservation.
Twelve ñ colleagues boarded a small bus bound for Pueblo, La Junta, Trinidad and Walsenburg, kicking off the inaugural Community Perspectives Tour.
In December 2021, a trio of CU scientists in a convoy of four-wheel-drive trucks sought to discover how life persists on Argentina and Chile’s Ojos del Salado, the world’s highest volcano and home to some of the planet’s driest areas.
Curiosity drives Lydia Wagenknecht, a doctoral candidate in ethnomusicology and recent recipient of a Fulbright Research Award.
In April 1965, the Stanford University chapter of the Sigma Chi fraternity invited Ken Washington to become a member. This flouted the fraternity’s longstanding whites-only policy, and the fallout reverberated across the nation, generating a controversy and legal challenge in Boulder, Colorado.
A language exchange collaboration between CU and Japanese universities has evolved and adapted to serve its student community in the ever-changing COVID-19 landscape.
Meow Wolf’s new $50 million Denver location opened its doors with the work of at least 12 members of the extended ñ community, all of whom share a link to the campus's ATLAS Institute.
“American Ninja Warrior” tests physical and mental toughness. And, thanks to his training regime at ñ’s Leeds School of Business, Nate Hansen has both.