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Elyse is from Littleton, Colorado. She worked in the front office as a Peer Advisor. Last spring, she defended her Honors Thesis - Designing an Immersive World: Exploring Theme Parks through Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away.

A new Denver-area playground designed and built by 18 students in the University of Colorado Boulder Program in Environmental Design (ENVD) will celebrate its grand opening on Saturday, June 3, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony.

In January, Assistant Professor Shawhin Roudbari traveled to Santiago, Chile with ENVD undergraduate research assistants Alicia Gonzales and Kristina Lu. The trio conducted fieldwork on social justice and activism in design through visual experience and interviews with various architects, planners and professors. A month before the trip, the team identified...

ENVD/ENVS/GEOG Advisor, Dylan West, is honored with the University of Colorado Boulder's Award for Outstanding New Advisor, a recognition given to two staff members each year for going above and beyond in the field of Academic Advising. Undergraduate Staff Advisor for CU Boulder College of Music , Victoria Ibarra, won...

Despite the frigid weather and broken down van, nineteen ENVD students, along with Senior Instructor Jade Polizzi, enjoyed a spectacular weekend in Taos, NM on a site analysis field trip to the Lama Foundation . The students gained valuable insights to inform their future design projects while taking in the...

Sheryl Koutsis, Advising Unit Manager of ENVD, receives distinguished annual Chancellor’s Employee of the Year Award. This award is presented to just a handful of individuals here at CU Boulder who display outstanding performance, leadership, and service to the campus and community. Leading such efforts as the Designers Without Boundaries...

Congratulations to Ryan Clement and Eric Dell'Orco for winning Second Prize in the Laka "Architecture that Reacts" design competition, and kudos to Tyler Laird and Harrison Smith for taking an Honorable Mention from a pool of 250 professional and student designers from 40 countries. The student works were completed in...