Cam Connor works on his laptop

Pushing Boundaries: Students create app for buying, selling tickets to local events

May 9, 2017

Student duo creates app that lets users buy or sell tickets to local sporting events, concerts or CU Boulder club activities. BeLive facilitates person-to-person communication without charging a transaction fee.

Miranda Viorst with painted elephant

Class of 2017: Prison yoga becomes grad's volunteer mission

April 28, 2017

Sociology graduate Miranda Viorst volunteers with The Prison Yoga Project in Boulder. She wrote an honors thesis from her interviews with former inmates of California’s San Quentin State Prison.

Danielle Garrison hanging a red fabric drape

Beyond Boulder: Taking dance into the air

April 26, 2017

Aerial dancer Danielle Garrison takes her performances to new heights with a Fulbright award to study dance in France.

A black and white photo of Joyce Lebra

Beyond Boulder: Retired CU professor was first American woman to earn PhD in Japanese history

April 17, 2017

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.

David Meyer holds his phone to display the Flatiron Chat app on screen

Pushing Boundaries: Student app gives introverts a voice in class—and more

April 13, 2017

David Meyer wants to change the way people communicate. To bring back the lost art of sharing stories with people we meet, he developed a mobile application that makes it easy to initiate a conversation.

CU Boulder ENVD students review plans for a new playground in Denver

Beyond Boulder: Students design, build new playground in Denver

April 10, 2017

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.

Tim Hogan and Dina Clark at the Museum of Natural History herbarium

Pushing Boundaries: Plant hunters are the pioneers of Colorado botany

March 10, 2017

The CU Museum of Natural History herbarium houses more than a half-million grasses, flowers, lichens and mosses—regarded as one of the most important natural history repositories in western North America.

Technology, Arts and Media student Kristof Klipfel poses with his "piano glove"

Pushing Boundaries: ATLAS student's piano gloves turn any surface into keyboard

March 6, 2017

After struggling to find his place in engineering and math, Kristof Klipfel discovered the creative outlet he craved in the ATLAS Institute's Technology, Arts and Media program. The senior is consistently cranking out innovative work that demonstrates his active imagination.

Pamela Wright signs with Taw, an 18 year old high school student in Boulder

Pushing Boundaries: Deaf student helps deaf refugees find their voice

Feb. 20, 2017

Since sign languages differ greatly from country to country, refugees immigrating to the U.S. have an especially difficult time adapting. Linguistics graduate student Pamela Wright is not a refugee, but, as a deaf person, she's finding ways to make their transition better.

CU Boulder student sails at sunset on Colorado lake

Sailing in Colorado? CU club would—if it had boats

Feb. 15, 2017

CU Boulder Sailing Club launches membership drive and crowdfunding effort to raise money for new boats.

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