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鈥檚 outreach efforts in a variety of ways.
Examples of Broader Impacts activities:聽
- 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聽a window into your research聽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聽collaborations:
- Aerospace Engineering Sciences (NASA SUITS Team)
- Aerospace Engineering Sciences聽(Tomoko Matsuo)聽
- Applied Mathematics (Nancy Rodriguez;聽NSF CAREER)
- Boulder Creek Critical Zone Observatory (Suzanne Anderson)
- Chemical and Biological Engineering (C. Wyatt Shields;聽NSF CAREER)
- Computer Science (Ash Utosh Trivedi;聽NSF CAREER)
- Computer Science (ChenHao Tan)
- Computer Science (Tom Yeh)
- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (Scott Taylor)聽
- Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering (Emiliano聽Dal'Anese;聽NSF CAREER)
- Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering (Juliet Gopinath;聽NSF CAREER)
- Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering (Xudong Chen;聽NSF CAREER)
- Environmental Studies (Daniel Doak and Megan Peterson)聽
- Environmental Studies (Laura Dee; NSF CAREER)
- Environmental Studies (Steve Miller)聽
- Geography (Katherine Lininger)
- Geological Sciences (Lizzy Trower)
- Mathematics (Sean O'Rourke;聽NSF CAREER)
- Mechanical and Environmental Engineering (Marina Vance;聽NSF CAREER)
- McMurdo-Dry Valleys LTER (Michael Gooseff)
- Niwot Ridge LTER (Kathrine聽Suding)
- Soft Materials Research Center (Noel Clark)聽
- STROBE (Margaret Murnane)
Interested in bringing your science to K-12 students, teachers and the community? Contact Alexandra Rose聽via聽email.
Broader Impacts
Intake Form
CU Science Discovery is excited to support the design聽and implementation of efficient and rewarding broader impact activiites. Our involvement ranges from providing advice and connections to help you聽reach your goals to creating work that is crafted from your expertise and ideas.聽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鈥檚 interests and aptitudes, and ideally, it should be something that feels rewarding enough for you to want to do, even outside of a grant鈥檚 timeframe. We can't wait to work with you!