Undergraduate Students

This Spring, in our Inside the Greenhouse ‘creative climate communications’ course we conducted an experiment. We challenged forty senior undergraduate students to come up with a comedy skit or standup routine that drew on issues associated with climate change…a we gave them a mere four weeks from start to finish...

By Clay Evans Following a catastrophic wildfire, there is a crucial, one-year window during which memories burn hot and citizens living in wildland-urban interfaces—“red zones”—are more receptive to information about how to mitigate the dangers from a future fire. And when it comes to educating the public about wildfire dangers...

by Dan Zietlow, CSTPR Writing Intern The CIRES Center for Science and Technology Policy Research (CSTPR) is pleased to announce Max Boykoff as its new Director. Professor Roger Pielke, Jr., who served as the Center’s founding director from 2001-2007, and again as director from 2013 until he completed his term...

The perpetually ice-covered lakes in Antarctica’s McMurdo Dry Valleys preserve the dissolved remnants of black carbon from thousand-year-old wildfires as well as modern day fossil fuel use, according to a new study led by the University of Colorado Boulder. The distinctive molecular signatures can provide researchers with a glimpse into...

For Professor Sarah Krakoff and students from the University of Colorado Boulder, spring marks a transition from the halls of the Wolf Law Building to the fields of the San Luis Valley. Since 2012, Krakoff and her law students have regularly trekked to one of the largest high altitude deserts...

CU-Boulder’s Grand Challenge, launched in September 2014, is the university’s response to President Obama’s nationwide call for companies, research universities, foundations and philanthropists to pursue the Grand Challenges of the 21st Century, “ambitious but achievable goals that harness science, technology, and innovation to solve important national or global problems and...

Boulder’s public open-space system was launched 50 years ago, and an event at CU-Boulder will bring together experts who will discuss the lay of the land in the next half-century. The event, called “Our Open Space Lands: Scenarios for the Future,” is scheduled for Thursday, April 28, beginning at 5:30...

By Laura Kriho The new Sustainability, Energy and Environment Complex (SEEC) at the University of Colorado Boulder is now open. After many years of hard work by scores of people, the university held an official dedication ceremony on April 14 for the $114 million scientific collaboration center, which will position...

Ongoing challenge of water in the West drives policy program By Cynthia Pasquale In the West, the need for water – and managing that need – provides a never-ending challenge. “Few, if any, issues will be more influential in shaping the future of the West than how the region manages...

From InnovatioNews BOULDER -- A dedication ceremony and reception will be held today at 4 p.m. for the University of Colorado-Boulder’s new Sustainability, Energy and Environment Complex (SEEC). CU said the event will celebrate the grand opening of the SEEC building, acknowledge donors who have contributed to the building and...