Celebrate
- Three undergraduate researchers received national poster awards at the American Institute of Chemical Engineers annual meeting. They were selected from more than 400 presenters and judged by approximately 100 professionals.
- A team of five students from the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering took second place in the national Design-Build Institute of America student competition held earlier this month.
- CU Boulder creative communications and advancement teams were recognized last month with four Council for Advancement and Support of Education awards.
- Associate Research Professor Hannah Brenkert-Smith is a member of the wildfire research team that will receive the Pathfinding Partnerships Award on Nov. 20 from the Colorado Governor’s Awards for High Impact Research.
- Associate Professor Jota Samper of the Program in Environmental Design is the 2024 recipient of the Excellence in Faculty Community Engagement Award from the Engagement Scholarship Consortium.
- CU Boulder Professor William Wei a has been named state historian by History Colorado, his second time receiving the honor.
- CU Boulder chemist Andrés Montoya-Castillo will use a five-year Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering to study tailoring cycles affecting energy flow in solar energy conversion.
- Matt Smiley has been awarded a MacDowell Fellowship, enabling him to advance his compositional goals by exploring the intersection of jazz and contemporary classical music, and embrace improvisation and innovative composition techniques that challenge the boundaries of both genres.
- College of Arts and Sciences leadership and peers are recognizing history Professor Paul Sutter’s service, teaching and research with the professor of distinction award.
- Professor and JILA Fellow Jun Ye has been selected for the Monroe Endowed Professorship in Physics. This prestigious new role underscores the university’s growing prominence in quantum information science and applied quantum physics.