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  • Elisabeth Sheffield, associate professor of English, won a $25,000 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship in Prose this year. Photo by Noah Larsen.
    Elisabeth Sheffield, associate professor of English, won a $25,000 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship in Prose this year. Photo by Noah Larsen.In each of the past two years, a CU-Boulder faculty member has won a Creative Writing Fellowship from the
  • Daniel Doak, a conservation biologist, was hired by CU-Boulder as its first Colorado Chair in Environmental Studies. Here, he works at CU’s Mountain Research Station on Niwot Ridge west of Boulder. Photo by Camille Mona Howitaawi Del Duca.
    CU-Boulder has hired its first Colorado Chair in Environmental Studies, an endowed chair awarded to Daniel Doak, a conservation biologist known for his quantitative analysis of how different government policies could affect the populations of species ranging from sea otters, California condors, corals, and rare plants.
  • Two University of Colorado Boulder undergraduate student teams have been named among the 10 top winners from a field of 3,697 teams that entered the international Mathematical Contest in Modeling.Results of the 2012 contest were announced this month
  • Steaphanie Mollborn
    When transition between adolescence and adulthood is missed, young adults can suffer preventable consequences, CU research suggestsTo most Americans of today, the idea of adolescence—that period of transition from childhood to adulthood bracketed by
  • Michelle Ellsworth, an assistant professor of theatre and dance at CU, is a performance artist and dancer whose work has earned her a prestigious fellowship. Bud Coleman, says the award "is a powerful statement that the peer-review panel recognizes that not all cutting-edge solo dance is created by artists living in New York City.”
    A University of Colorado Boulder dancer and performance artist has won a $50,000 USA Fellowship Grant, an award designed to put unrestricted grants “directly into the hands of America’s finest artists.”
  • The Panama Canal was constructed in the early 1900s by the U.S. government, which tackled public-health threats to workers in some cases and to some degree. But the narrative is more complex than is sometimes conveyed, a CU historian contends. Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress.
    Before the 20th century, the tropics were widely feared as home to dread diseases such as yellow fever and malaria. Building the Panama Canal helped change that view, but the brighter perception didn’t fully match the grittier truth.
  • Margaret Murnane
    University of Colorado Boulder Distinguished Professor Margaret Murnane has been awarded Ireland’s top science award, the RDS Irish Times Boyle Medal for Scientific Excellence, for her pioneering work that has transformed the field of ultrafast
  • Baylor Fox-Kemper, assistant professor of atmospheric and ocean sciences at the University of Colorado. Photo courtesy of Baylor Fox-Kemper.
    Baylor Fox-Kemper, assistant professor of atmospheric and ocean sciences at the University of Colorado has won the Ocean Sciences Early Career Award from the American Geophysical Union.Fox-Kemper was cited for his “fundamental contributions to
  • Claire Farago
    Claire FaragoTwo University of Colorado Boulder professors are conducting research in Finland and the United Kingdom as Fulbright Scholars for the 2011-12 academic year.Professor Claire Farago of CU-Boulder’s art and art history department is doing
  • Ebrahim Moosa, an associate professor of Islamic studies at Duke University
    Noted scholar of Islam speaks at CU as part of effort to honor Professor Frederick DennyLong before Egyptians rose up against dictator Hosni Mubarak, Egyptian authorities prosecuted an Islamic scholar who argued that Muslims should view the Koran as
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