Chris Bell

Exploring what we give to children to teach them about gender

Nov. 10, 2019

Leading up to next week's Diversity and Inclusion Summit, we sat down with keynote speaker Christopher Bell (PhDMediaSt’09), University of Colorado Colorado Springs professor and Pixar consultant. Catch his talk at 9 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 12, in the UMC Glenn Miller Ballroom.

Hellems

Communication faculty receive national awards

Nov. 6, 2019

The National Communication Association recently recognized the work of four Department of Communication faculty with national awards.

CSCW 2019

Information Science attends the 22nd ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

Nov. 4, 2019

Faculty and students affiliated with the Department of Information Science will be presenting work at the CSCW 2019 conference, the premier venue for research on computer-supported cooperative work and social computing.

Art by Nigel Buchanan

Tom Garfinkel (Comm'91) Is Made for Miami

Oct. 29, 2019

As vice chairman, president and CEO of the Miami Dolphins, Tom Garfinkel (Comm’91) has led an off-the-field resurrection of one of the NFL’s most storied franchises.

A woman seen through facial recognition software

Facial recognition software has a gender problem

Oct. 10, 2019

“We knew there were inherent biases in these systems around race and ethnicity and we suspected there would also be problems around gender,” said senior author Jed Brubaker, an assistant professor of Information Science. “We set out to test this in the real world.”

INFO student work

Department of Information Science earns awards

Oct. 7, 2019

The Department of Information Science has recently earned several grants and awards from organizations both on and off campus.

Hoover Dam

The Water Desk awards grants to journalists covering Western water issues

Oct. 4, 2019

The Water Desk , a journalism initiative at the University of Colorado Boulder’s Center for Environmental Journalism , has awarded its first grants to support journalists and media outlets covering Western water issues and the Colorado River Basin. Grantees will delve into a wide range of issues throughout the region,...

Photo of a protestor

CU Boulder to host lecture on activism and contemporary politics

Sept. 19, 2019

Join Professor Shiv Ganesh of the University of Texas Austin as he examines this question in his keynote, “Contentious Politics and the Domestication of Activism.” Ganesh’s talk is free and open to the public, and will take place at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 24, in UMC 235.

Vertigo

CU Boulder to host symposium on Ecologies of Practice

Sept. 9, 2019

Join acclaimed artist and scholar Sha Xin Wei, director of the School of Arts, Media and Engineering at Arizona State University, as he explores how engineers, humanists and artists can learn more effectively from one another. Sha will deliver the keynote, “Prototyping Social Forms: Research-Creation Ateliers,” as part of a two-day Ecologies of Practices symposium that will take place Sept.18-19 on CU Boulder’s campus.

2019 Fellows

Center for Environmental Journalism welcomes 2019-20 class of Ted Scripps Fellows

Aug. 20, 2019

A new class of fellows will dig into issues ranging from water scarcity to the environmental impact of meat production through the University of Colorado Boulder’s Ted Scripps Fellowship in Environmental Journalism program.

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