Paleoclimatologist Sarah Crump, a PhD student and INSTARR researcher, studies the effects of climate variability in the Canadian Arctic by analyzing ancient DNA from lake sediment.
Last spring, two CU Boulder students spent three weeks in South Africa studying post-Apartheid systems of leadership, peacekeeping and sustainable political development during a trip funded by Associate Vice Chancellor Alphonse Keasley.
This summer, undergraduate students Max Wasser and Grace Kendziorski are spending time trapping pikas and counting alpine flowers in the name of environmental research.
Ani Yahzid will be filming in the wilderness of Olympic National Park with hip hop musician Namaste. "The Exposure Film Project: When Hip Hop Meets the Outdoors" is an independent film Yahzid hopes will get millennials more engaged with the outdoors.
Joyce Chapman Lebra became increasingly aware of ethnic and class distinctions as a child in the Territory of Hawaii, which provided the impetus for her life's mission to give a "voice to the voiceless" as a historian, author and educator.
Environmental design students at CU Boulder are taking their education out of the classroom and into the community to design and build a neighborhood playground.
Colorado Law students will be learning about law from a raft on the Colorado River—an opportunity to become leaders in water, public land, energy, wildlife and American Indian law. They have launched a crowdfunding campaign to help get there.
Student volunteers with the CU Boulder chapter of Bridges to Prosperity have launched a crowdfunding campaign to build pedestrian bridges in Swaziland and Bolivia.
