Pushing Boundaries
- The final Entrepreneurial Product Development project seemed straightforward. But the professor wanted to push her students out of their comfort zones, so she's enlisted a Theatre & Dance professor to add a twist to the assignment.
- At a sold-out talk, Robin Wall Kimmerer discussed the importance of tapping Indigenous knowledge 鈥渘ot so that we can go back to some imagined past but so we can go forward together and find solutions that are not embedded only by the Western worldview.鈥
- An early and ongoing love for the water and the place where he grew up informs Skyler Kern鈥檚 doctoral research, which optimizes computational models of biogeochemical processes to one day inform climate change policy.
- When CU Boulder鈥檚 student population nearly doubled during the end of World War II, the university set out to house more than 4,600 vets鈥攎any with spouses and children鈥攚ho received GI Bill benefits.
- A CU Boulder bridge program is designed to help student veterans transition to university life through acclimation to academics and social opportunities on campus.
- CU Boulder鈥檚 newest institute鈥攖he Rene虂e Crown Wellness Institute鈥攃elebrated its grand opening on University Hill with a joyful event highlighting the importance of the institute鈥檚 work: addressing the mental health crisis.
- The first student newspaper at the University of Colorado launched in 1892. Since then, student coverage has created a colorful record of student life amidst adversity, controversy, levity and the most significant historical events of the 20th and 21st centuries.
- The Mindful Campus Program, designed by students and faculty, aims to help students improve their own wellness and that of the community.
- In 2021, a new research scholarship program, Uplift,聽was launched by the graduate student organization STEM Routes to provide mentored research experiences specifically catering to the challenges faced by underrepresented and underprivileged undergraduates at CU Boulder.
- As the Rene虂e Crown Wellness Institute gears up for its grand opening this fall, Director Sona Dimidjian addresses the current climate for mental health and wellness among young people and how the institute is taking supportive action.