2023 RIO Faculty Fellows: Community Talks

As part of CU Boulder's annual Research & Innovation Week (October 16–20, 2023), the 2023 Faculty Fellows gave short TED-style talks in the Gordon Gamm Theater at the Dairy Arts Center in Boulder.


Watch videos of each talk below to learn about the leading edge of research, scholarship and creative work at CU Boulder.

Big-Tent Climate Action: The Need to Get Beyond "Us" and "Them" to Get Real and Take Action on Climate Change

Dr. Matthew Burgess (Environmental Studies; CIRES)

Courageous Moves: Trusting Migration in a Changing World

Dr. Lori Hunter (Institute of Behavioral Science)

Covid, Human Waste and Hope: Beneath the Sewers, I Awoke to the Ever-Flowing Optimism of Waste

Dr. Cresten Mansfeldt (Environmental Engineering)

Contemplating Evolution: Why Making Spaces to Be Curious was Important for This Gay Scientist

Dr. Scott Taylor (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)

Science Perseverance: What I Learned about Being a Scientist from a Grain of Sand

Dr. Lizzy Trower (Geological Sciences)

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