Kudos
- This time Dotson sought outside help, including Adam Bradley, an English professor at the University of Colorado Boulder and founder of the school’s Laboratory for Race & Popular Culture (RAP Lab). Bradley had learned of Dotson’s work through the director of a prisoner advocacy group and reached out to the inmate.
- Three CU Boulder faculty members are newly designated distinguished professors, the highest honor awarded to faculty across the CU system’s four campuses.
- Leslie Leinwand has won the American Heart Association's 2017 Distinguished Scientist award for outstanding contributions to the field of heart health.
- The American Physical Society has recognized CU Boulder scientists and PhET Interactive Simulations as being among the 'most accomplished, promising and respected scientists and leaders'
- Newly minted professors of distinction have notable expertise in artists’ personas, natural-language technology, classic poems and climate-change education, and on Sept. 21, they offered a public overview of their work.
- Lorenzo “Rennie” Harris, an artist-in-residence in the Theatre and Dance Department at the University of Colorado Boulder, has earned Dance Magazine’s “Living Legends” award for 2017.
- Ayla Sullivan, a student majoring in theater and dance and secondary English education, is no stranger to winning awards, and has just racked up another one: winning the Americas Latino Festival Eco-Artivist Challenge.
- CU Boulder’s PhET Interactive Simulations is one of six winners of the prestigious, international WISE Award from the WISE Foundation.
- The Benson Earth Sciences building at CU Boulder is turning 20 this year, and the Department of Geological Sciences is celebrating both past accomplishments and a bright future.
- In Sept. 21 event professors of art and art history, classics, geography and linguistics will deliver lectures on their areas of expertise.