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Rubén Donato, the Bob & Judy Charles Endowed Chair and a professor of Educational Foundations, Policy and Practice in the School of Education, will deliver his in-person lecture “An Elusive Quest: Mexican American Resistance to School Segregation in the United States” at 4 p.m. on Jan. 31 in the Chancellor's Hall and Auditorium, Center for Academic Success and Engagement (CASE).

When gas leaks contaminate household water wells, is it from a failure in the drilling, or was the gas migrating naturally? New research conducted by a team of investigators at CU Boulder, the National Energy Technology Laboratory, Johns Hopkins and Dalhousie could help definitively answer that question.

One year after the Marshall Fire, dozens of ongoing research projects continue to explore the science behind what happened that day, the widespread impacts on people, pets and the environment and how we can mitigate future catastrophes. Here's a glimpse at what they’ve learned so far, and what’s in the works.

Iain Boyd (Aerospace Engineering), who has spent his career studying hypersonics, speaks about the extreme conditions the NASA spacecraft Orion faced on its recent return trip from the moon—and why the growing space tourism industry may require new kinds of spacecraft heat shields.

Gijs de Boer—a senior research scientist in CIRES and the NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory—has been named director of national laboratory partnerships, a newly established, part-time role that will focus on expanding CU Boulder’s research collaborations with national laboratories.

To support CU Boulder’s advocacy in Washington, D.C., the university’s Federal Relations team is soliciting campus input to help identify the university’s priorities for congressionally directed and programmatic funding for federal Fiscal Year 2024. Your participation in the process will aid in developing the annual fiscal and policy requests that...

Highlights from CU Boulder’s research, scholarship and creative work in 2021-22 paint a compelling picture of our progress towards our strategic imperatives. CU Boulder again attracted record levels of research funding this year—$658 million in gifts and awards, including $474 million from federal agencies.

After an at-times emotional first day of the summit Friday, in which panelists from around the globe made the undeniable case that climate change is a humanitarian crisis, speakers on Day 2 focused on accountability, called for action and suggested that a human rights framing is precisely what’s needed to spark action.

Jonathan Koehn, chief sustainability and resilience officer for the city of Boulder and instructor in CU Boulder’s Masters of the Environment program, moderated a panel of local leaders who discussed how the impacts of climate change are being felt and addressed locally and regionally.

According to a new report from the Leeds School of Business, commercialization activities led by Venture Partners at CU Boulder had an economic impact of $8 billion nationally and $5.2 billion in the state of Colorado over the last five years—a four-fold increase in impact since 2019.