Dr. Thomas Cech

Dr. Tom Cech Inducted into the 2024 Boulder County Business Hall of Fame

Aug. 19, 2024

Dr. Tom Cech Inducted into the 2024 Boulder County Business Hall of Fame Encouraging and Recognizing Business Excellence : The Boulder County Business Hall of Fame is a private, nonprofit 501C3 dedicated to the encouragement of business excellence in Boulder County by recognizing and inducting Boulder County business leaders into...

Sabrina Spencer, PhD Presents at Biden Cancer Moonshot Program

Dr. Sabrina Spencer Shares Cancer Research Expertise with the Office of Science and Technology Policy White House Cabinet Director Dr. Arati Prabhakar

July 24, 2024

White House Science Official Comes to CU Anschutz for Cancer Briefing, Moonshot Updates Arati Prabhakar, PhD, and a panel of elected officials and CU leaders shared information on the fight against cancer. Dr. Sabrina Spencer, a CU Boulder Biochemistry Professor and CU Cancer Center member, recently presented her lab's cancer...

Sabrina Spencer Accepts the Anne Heidenthal Prize

Chroma awards Prof. Sabrina Spencer, PhD the Anne Heidenthal Prize for Fluorescence Research

July 18, 2024

From the Chroma Technology Website: This year, Chroma Technology is happy to present the Anne Heidenthal Prize for Fluorescence Research award to Prof. Sabrina Spencer from the University of Colorado Boulder. This annual international prize is awarded to a young scientist who has performed extraordinary research in the field of...

Nobel Laureate and University of Colorado, Boulder researcher Thomas R. Cech. Glenn J. Asakawa/University of Colorado

Here’s what a Nobel Prize-winning scientist wants you to know about the Covid-19 vaccines and the future of RNA

June 6, 2024

Dr. Thomas Cech, Nobel Laureate, in an interview with CNN, provides insight into how RNA has impacted modern medicine and biology and how mRNA, holds promise for future vaccines and other scientific and health-related breakthroughs. For many years, Cech has researched RNA and taught chemistry to undergrads at the University...

Professor Jeffrey Cameron

Innovative Project Led by CU Boulder Biochemistry Professor Jeffrey Cameron Selected for New Frontiers in Bio-Integrated Organic Computing & Low-energy Innovative Carbon-based Manufacturing (BIO-CLIC)

April 25, 2024

The Research & Innovation Office (RIO) and New Frontiers Grant partners—the College of Arts & Sciences, the College of Engineering & Applied Sciences, and the School of Education—announced planning grant winners in the inaugural round of the New Frontiers Grant Program , a novel initiative designed to foster new, interdisciplinary...

Professor Jeff Cameron

RASEI Fellows CU Boulder Biochemistry Professor Jeff Cameron and CU Boulder Physics Professor Ivan Smalyukh: Potential New Ways to Use Bacterial Systems in Bio-Manufacturing

March 15, 2024

Bacterial Disco Lights: Using light to control the movement and arrangement of cyanobacteria to form liquid crystalline active matter This collaboration, between a bacterial biochemist and a condensed-matter physicist, uses light to control the movement and arrangement of cyanobacteria, forming two- and three-dimensional nematic liquid crystalline states that could provide...

Amy Palmer Portrait

Amy Palmer, CU Boulder Professor of Biochemistry, wins Cogswell Award for Inspirational Teaching

March 2, 2024

Amy Palmer, CU Boulder professor of biochemistry, wins the Cogswell Award for Inspirational Teaching to recognize her for revamping classroom experiences, championing diversity and striving to connect with students ‘beyond the course curriculum’. Palmer, who is faculty director of the Honors Program, joined the CU Boulder faculty in 2005. She...

Emily Kibby Portrait

CU Boulder PhD student Emily Kibby has won the prestigious Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award

March 2, 2024

CU Boulder PhD student Emily Kibby has won the prestigious Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award in recognition of her work researching bacterial immune responses. Her work recently was recognized with the Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award , given by the Fred Hutch Cancer Center to honor outstanding achievement...

Marvin Caruthers Portrait

CU Regents Bestow Honorary Degree on Marvin Caruthers

Feb. 15, 2024

Marvin Caruthers Honorary degree Through remarkable professional achievements and philanthropic contributions, Marvin Caruthers has created tremendous impact at CU Boulder, in the local community and throughout society. A distinguished professor of biochemistry, he joined the faculty in 1973, first in the Department of Chemistry and continuing later when Biochemistry became...

Meg Palacio 2023

Paving the Way in Research for Diverse Perspectives: Meg Palacio

Nov. 15, 2023

Leading as an Inclusive Researcher Advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion of historically excluded students in STEM has been a large part of my identity and effort throughout my graduate school journey. As a Chicana, I recognize the barriers imposed upon disadvantaged groups and know that I would not be where...

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