Marinus Smith awards

Announcing the 2022 Marinus Smith Award recipients

April 15, 2022

Twenty-three faculty and staff members were recognized this year through the Marinus Smith Awards for the positive impacts they have made on their students. See who they are.

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2 CU Boulder students earn prestigious Goldwater Scholarships

April 14, 2022

CU Boulder students Zoe Drigot and Rose Summers are among only 417 college students from across the U.S. in 2022 to be awarded Goldwater Scholarships, which reward juniors and seniors who are actively conducting research in math, science and engineering.

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CU Boulder’s Claire Monteleoni leads new journal, filling environmental data science gap

April 14, 2022

Environmental Data Science, a new journal devoted to innovative data-driven approaches to environmental problems including climate change, recently published its first cluster of papers. Associate Professor Claire Monteleoni is the editor.

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39 CU grad students earn NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

April 13, 2022

Thirty-nine CU Boulder graduate students have received National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships, a prestigious award that recognizes and supports outstanding students in a wide variety of science-related disciplines.

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Kelly Trang named student-employee of the year for 2022

April 13, 2022

Each year, CU Boulder recognizes students who have demonstrated exemplary work through the Student Employee of the Year Award program. Join us in celebrating the 2021–22 nominees and winners.

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Applied mathematician gains top recognition

April 13, 2022

James Curry has been named a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, which recognizes those who have made “outstanding contributions” to the field.

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Interdisciplinary team receives National Endowment for the Humanities award

April 13, 2022

A team of of Arts and Sciences faculty has won a $150,000 grant for a project that aims to develop a curricular initiative that enhances the humanities and data science by developing courses that are equally rooted in each discipline.

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Student Philanthropy Month raises $20,000 for student causes

April 12, 2022

Buffs raised over $20,000 in March for student causes. The month was an opportunity to raise funds and awareness for the areas of CU Boulder life that students care about and to make a big impact in the lives of current and future Buffs.

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Program for historically excluded students gets big boost, more space

April 12, 2022

A sense of community is key to higher graduation rates and other measures of academic success, participants in the Miramontes Arts and Sciences Program say.

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Research and Innovation Seed Grants totaling $1.2 million unveiled

April 11, 2022

The 2022 Research and Innovation Seed Grants, announced by the Research & Innovation Office and the Office of the Provost, are funding 25 new projects for up to $50,000 each, including three new CU Boulder Grand Challenge projects.

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