The Distinguished Research Lectureship is among the highest honors bestowed by the faculty upon a CU Boulder colleague.
Each year, the Research & Innovation Office (RIO) requests nominations and a faculty review panel recommends one or more faculty members as recipients. The deadline for nominations is Monday, April 6. Nominations should be submitted online.
About the lectureship
The lectureship honors a tenured faculty member, Research Professor (Associate or full) or Adjoint Professor who has been with CU Boulder for at least five years and is widely recognized for a distinguished body of academic or creative achievement and prominence, as well as contributions to the educational and service missions of CU Boulder.
The selection of the Distinguished Research Lecturer is based on the research and creative record of the nominee as presented in the nomination application and as recognized by experts in the field.
Recipients typically present a lecture in the fall or spring following selection and receive a $2,000 stipend.
Eligibility
Nominees for the Distinguished Research Lectureship must be: tenured faculty member, Research Professor (Associate or full) or Adjoint Professor who has been with CU Boulder for at least five years; recognized nationally/internationally for scholarship, research and creative work; and highly regarded for contributions to CU Boulder and its reputation.
Nomination procedure
Any faculty member may submit a nomination to the vice chancellor for Research & Innovation. The nomination’s supporting materials should include:
2019–20 lectureship recipient
Helmut Müller-Sievers, a professor in the Department of German and Slavic Languages and Literature, was selected to receive the 2019-20 Distinguished Research Lectureship.
Dr. Müller-Sievers’ talk, Engineering Literature: Johann Wolfgang Goethe and the Novel Machine, will go back to the origins of this divergence in the late 18th century and show how the concerns of novelists and engineers were once closely aligned—that novels were understood to be machines as much as machines could be subjected to literary interpretation. At the center of his remarks will be the German poet Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749 – 1832).
The lecture will be held on Tuesday, March 17 from 4—5 p.m. in the CASE auditorium, with a reception to follow. Registration is requested for this event, as space is limited.
Questions?
Please visit the Distinguished Research Lectureship website or email rio@colorado.edu.