Beyond Colorado
Explore programs and initiatives taking place in communities outside of Colorado.
Alternative Breaks
Alternative Breaks is a program of the Volunteer Resource Center. The program sends trips across the country (Spring) and abroad (Summer) to take place in a week long service project with a group of peers. Alternative Breaks accepts and trains leaders each fall. It is these leaders that guide their...
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Center for Asian Studies K-12 Outreach
The Center for Asian Studies (CAS) on the Boulder campus of the University of Colorado brings together faculty, students, and community members to encourage and support Asian scholarship across disciplinary and college boundaries.
Through its three principal K-12 outreach programs, CAS annually offers opportunities for teachers ranging from Saturday workshops to...
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CIRES - Climate Literacy & Energy Awareness Network (CLEAN)
To provide students with accurate information about climate and energy science, educators require scientifically and pedagogically robust teaching materials. To address this need, the Climate Literacy & Energy Awareness Network (CLEAN) assembles a new peer-reviewed digital collection as part of the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) featuring teaching materials centered...
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CIRES - Education and Outreach
CIRES researchers explore all aspects of the earth system and search for ways to better understand how natural and human-made disturbances impact our dynamic planet. CIRES strongly supports and encourages education outreach. Programs exist for K-12 school districts, teachers and students, undergraduates at CU and elsewhere, and other community groups....
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CIRES - Education and Outreach Evaluation Services
Evaluation and assessment methodologies are designed and implemented for programs and proposals on an individual basis. Various tools and approaches are developed to assess how well a program's goals and objectives have been met. This often includes front-end (e.g., user needs assessments), formative (e.g., quarterly evaluation reports), and summative (e.g.,...
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CIRES - Inspiring Climate Education Excellence
The Inspiring Climate Education Excellence: Teacher Professional Development for Effective Instruction in Climate Science Literacy. The ICEE project provides a face to face workshop, an online course and self-directed learning modules to help teachers learn to be Climate Literate. ICEE addresses important climate science content and the pedagogical skills necessary...
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Colorado Capital Conference
Colorado has a rich history of civic engagement at the local, state and federal levels. Leaders throughout our state understand that western issues are unique and oftentimes wonder what they can do to affect policy or assist our elected representatives with advancing Colorado's agenda in Washington, D.C. Former Senator Tim...
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Colorado Center for Biorefining and Biofuels (C2B2)
The Colorado Center for Biorefining and Biofuels (C2B2) is a cooperative research and educational center devoted to the conversion of biomass to fuels and other products. C2B2 is a research center of the Colorado Renewable Energy Collaboratory and is supported by state, institutional, and industry funds.
C2B2 provides private industry...
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Colorado European Union Center of Excellence
The Colorado European Union Center of Excellence (CEUCE) promotes understanding of the European Union (EU) and transatlantic (EU-US) relations through teaching, research and outreach activities at the University of Colorado at Boulder and in the broader Mountain West region. The CEUCE was founded in 2008 with the support of...
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Colorado Space Grant Consortium
Colorado Space Grant is a NASA-funded program in the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Outreach is just a small part of what Space Grant does at CU. There are several outreach programs within the Space Grant program:
1) Tours of the Facility: 20 - 30 minute tours of the Space...
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Continuing Education at CU-Boulder
The mission of the Division of Continuing Education is to provide quality, innovative lifelong learning opportunities to a diverse student population by extending the educational resources of the University of Colorado Boulder. Continuing Education provides students with financial aid planning, academic advising, career counseling, registration, and other helpful services.
The...
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Crow Tribe Sustainable Housing Project Student Outreach, Exchange and Training
The Mortenson Center in Engineering for Developing Communities at CU-Boulder was contracted by the Division of Energy and Mineral Development in 2007 to implement a project on the Crow Reservation in Montana to build local capacity to produce sustainable, appropriate housing using locally sourced compressed earth block (CEB) technology. CEB...
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Digital Library for Earth System Education
Researchers at the Institute of Cognitive Science and the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research are working with 124 middle and high schools in the Denver Public School system to provide a new online resource system. The system, called the Curriculum Customization Service, offers teachers access to about 13,500 resources, including...
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Empowering the Voices of the Women for Energy Justice in Pune, India
Assistant Professor Beth Osnes will be developing and implementing a "training the trainers" methodology for vocal empowerment for women in Pune, India for Appropriate Rural Technology Institute, which provides sustainable energy solutions for rural people living in poverty. Their primary technology is the fuel-efficient cook stove that is especially designed...
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Energy Justice: Combating Poverty and Global Warming in Ayaviri Peru (Stage Two)
A full one third of the world's population, typically living on less than a dollar or two per day, has no access to modern energy resources. The majority of these people rely on burning biomass (such as cow manure, crop residues, or collected wood) to meet all of their energy...
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Energy Justice: Combating Poverty and Global Warming in Ayaviri, Peru
This project illustrating the feasibility of addressing poverty and global warming, is a joint enterprise between the faculty and students of the Center for Energy and Environmental Security (CEES), the Department of Theatre and Dance, the Mortenson Center in Engineering for Developing Countries, Caritas (an NGO in Peru), and...
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Ethnic Astronomy Presentations at Fiske Planetarium
For the last several years and for several more years to come, Fiske Planetarium will be offering public presentations on various ethnic astronomy topics based on research trips partially-funded by the CU-Boulder Outreach Committee These presentations use the unique environment and multi-media formats allowed by the Fiske Theatre and present...
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Image Description for visually impaired students
Thousands of students throughout the United States are unable to read printed books. These students include the next generation of scientists, engineers, teachers, and parents. Like all students, they must have timely access to their textbooks and reading materials in order to learn and compete in our...
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Institute for Ethical and Civic Engagement
The Institute for Ethical and Civic Engagement (IECE) was formally established in August 2005 by then Chancellor Phil DiStefano, following nearly three years of advanced planning. The IECE received a very different and innovative institute mission: serve as a catalyst, advocate, coordinator and facilitator to stimulate the advancement of ethical...
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Intermountain Oil and Gas Best Management Practices Project
The Intermountain Oil and Gas Best Management Practices Project database and website are maintained as a project of the Natural Resources Law Center at the University of Colorado Law School. Best Management Practices (BMPs) are mitigation measures applied to areas being developed for oil and gas to promote energy...
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