Shilo Brooks in his office

Faculty in Focus: Exploring the relationship between democracy and technology

May 20, 2019

Shilo Brooks, faculty director of the Engineering Leadership Program, has been awarded a fellowship at Princeton University, where he will spend 10 months on research for his next book.

Soap film as beautiful art

Faculty in Focus: Using engineering to teach art

April 26, 2019

Mechanical engineering professor Jean Hertzberg shares her enthusiasm for nature’s beauty by teaching students to reveal the hidden splendors of mingling gases and liquids—and make art of it.

Danielle Rivera's students

Faculty in Focus: Making the invisible visible

April 10, 2019

Assistant Professor Danielle Rivera describes how she unearths and amplifies marginalized communities’ theories and histories through her community-based research.

Norm Pace

Faculty in Focus: Blowing the doors off the microbial world

March 28, 2019

CU Boulder’s Norm Pace isn’t intimidated by the darkness of remote caves, or the vastness of the microbial universe. He’s mastered both.

CU Boulder chemistry graduate student  leads experiments for high school students attending the Upward Bound program.

Faculty in Focus: Transforming undergraduate science education

Feb. 7, 2019

A new open-source handbook, co-authored by Stephanie Chasteen, provides guidance for implementing evidence-based improvements in undergraduate STEM education.

Kids work on coding skills

Faculty in Focus: Teaming up to give kids computational competence

Feb. 1, 2019

The Communities Code initiative has garnered university outreach awards for the last four years, and its founders say the program boosts not only kids’ tech skills but also their self-esteem.

Dean Sara Thompson

Faculty in Focus: A century of innovative outreach and engagement

Jan. 11, 2019

In this conversation with Continuing Education Dean Sara Thompson, find out how the division she leads connects university resources with communities statewide.

June Gruber

Faculty in Focus: Examining the flip side of happiness

Dec. 19, 2018

We stock our shelves with books and pills intended to make us happy, but CU psychologist June Gruber warns that too much of a good thing can backfire.

Magnifying glass laid on top of Bible page, Psalm 119

Faculty in Focus: Think the Bible is fully understood? CU scholar begs to differ

Dec. 4, 2018

In the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Sam Boyd, a CU Boulder scholar of biblical studies, dove into the study of religious texts, "so I know what I'm talking about."

CU Boulder's Jackson Crawford speaks outside on the Colorado Front Range

Faculty in Focus: Meet CU Boulder's Viking-cowboy-scholar

Nov. 27, 2018

When Jackson Crawford came to CU Boulder to take the reins as coordinator of the Nordic Program, it felt like a homecoming in many ways.

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