Broader Impacts

CU Science Discovery offers a variety of opportunities for CU Boulder faculty to share their STEM research with broad public audiences, while fulfilling NSF and other Federal grant Broader Impacts requirements. Faculty partners connect their scientific work to Science Discovery’s outreach efforts in a variety of ways.

Examples of Broader Impacts activities: 

  • Contributing content and expertise to Science Discovery classes, camps or outreach programs for K-12 students
  • Mentoring high school student researchers
  • Providing visiting K-12 students a window into your research while on campus or at a local field site
  • Providing hands-on teacher training and follow-up support through school and teacher programs
  • Involving graduate students and post-docs in outreach programs
  • Contributing scientific expertise, resources and equipment
  • Ensuring scientific accuracy of education materials

Successfully funded Broader Impacts collaborations:

  • Aerospace Engineering Sciences (NASA SUITS Team)
  • Aerospace Engineering Sciences (Tomoko Matsuo) 
  • Applied Mathematics (Nancy Rodriguez; NSF CAREER)
  • Boulder Creek Critical Zone Observatory (Suzanne Anderson)
  • Chemical and Biological Engineering (C. Wyatt Shields; NSF CAREER)
  • Computer Science (Ash Utosh Trivedi; NSF CAREER)
  • Computer Science (ChenHao Tan)
  • Computer Science (Tom Yeh)
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (Scott Taylor) 
  • Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering (Emiliano Dal'Anese; NSF CAREER)
  • Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering (Juliet Gopinath; NSF CAREER)
  • Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering (Xudong Chen; NSF CAREER)
  • Environmental Studies (Daniel Doak and Megan Peterson) 
  • Environmental Studies (Laura Dee; NSF CAREER)
  • Environmental Studies (Steve Miller) 
  • Geography (Katherine Lininger)
  • Geological Sciences (Lizzy Trower)
  • Mathematics (Sean O'Rourke; NSF CAREER)
  • Mechanical and Environmental Engineering (Marina Vance; NSF CAREER)
  • McMurdo-Dry Valleys LTER (Michael Gooseff)
  • Niwot Ridge LTER (Kathrine Suding)
  • Soft Materials Research Center (Noel Clark) 
  • STROBE (Margaret Murnane)

Interested in bringing your science to K-12 students, teachers and the community? Contact Alexandra Rose via email.

Broader Impacts Intake Form

scientist talking to small child at outreach event

CU Science Discovery is excited to support the design and implementation of efficient and rewarding broader impact activiites. Our involvement ranges from providing advice and connections to help you reach your goals to creating work that is crafted from your expertise and ideas. Our philosophy is that broader impacts work should integrate as seamlessly as possible into your research agenda, it should be a reflection of your lab’s interests and aptitudes, and ideally, it should be something that feels rewarding enough for you to want to do, even outside of a grant’s timeframe. We can't wait to work with you!

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