Announcements & Deadlines
With the goal of enhancing operations within core and shared instrumentation facilities on campus, the Core Facility Assistance Grant Program has awarded 10 new awards. Additionally, the Core Facility Voucher Program has doled out awards to assist faculty in gathering new or additional data for grant applications.
Six life science scholars will embark on their PhD studies and contribute their unique cultural experiences to the CU Boulder campus this fall through a nearly $1.9 million gift to the university from the Shurl and Kay Curci Foundation.
Federal Pell Grants, which have helped generations of low- and moderate-income CU Boulder students afford higher education, turned 50 years old on June 23. The Pell Grant program helps more than 4,000 CU Boulder students annually and nearly 7 million recipients nationwide.
A CU Boulder doctoral candidate in ethnic studies with an emphasis on Native American and Indigenous studies has received the 2022–23 Henry Roe Cloud Dissertation Fellowship at Yale University.
The CU Boulder Office of Data Analytics has updated the 2021 Campus Culture Survey unit-level dashboard to increase the functionality of the survey results by campus unit.
The Office of Information Technology recently launched a Universal Design for Learning micro-credential that offers an introduction to the principles of UDL—a framework that can help participants build flexibility into any learning experience to optimize the success of diverse learners.
The Pew Charitable Trust has announced that Assistant Professor Wyatt Shields has been selected as a 2022 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences.
Nine CU Boulder students and alumni have been named Fulbright finalists for the 2022–23 academic year by the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. One student declined the scholarship and another five students were named alternates.
The Boulder Valley School District has updated its 2022–23 academic calendar to align the district’s spring break dates with those of CU Boulder. For a number of years, CU Boulder’s and BVSD's spring break dates have matched, which is helpful to many CU Boulder employees and CU Boulder parents and families with students enrolled in the school district.
Aaron Whiteley, CU Boulder assistant professor of biochemistry, is one of eight to win this year’s Boettcher Foundation Webb-Waring Biomedical Research Award.