There are currently 7,164 languages worldwide; however, this number is decreasing each year. According to Ethnologue, a research center for language intelligence, about 44% of languages are endangered, and more than 90% of current languages will be extinct by 2050. But, there is an effort to fight against language extinction. One of these efforts…
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Applications open on Mon., Jan. 13 for Public and Community-Engaged Scholarship (PACES) Grants, Tiers 1-4. PACES funds public and community-engaged scholarship that connects CU Boulder research, teaching and creative work with partners in Colorado communities and beyond. Tier 1 grants are for public outreach events and partnership development and will be awarded on a rolling…
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Applications open on Mon., Jan. 13, 2025 for Public and Community-Engaged Scholarship (PACES) Grants, Tiers 1-4. PACES funds public and community-engaged scholarship that connects CU Boulder research, teaching and creative work with partners in Colorado communities and beyond. Tier 1 grants are for public outreach events and partnership development and will be awarded on a…
More On the afternoon of Oct. 4, CU Boulder’s School of Education’s building dedication and open house brought together over 300 people to honor the school’s research, student work, donor support and community impact. Alumni, donors and K-12 partners joined university faculty, staff and students to celebrate the achievements and future goals of the school with…
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The University of Colorado Boulder School of Education, in collaboration with the Boulder Book Store, is thrilled to announce the 6th Annual Children’s Book Festival, taking place on Saturday, Nov. 9. For the first time, the event will be hosted off campus, at the Boulder Public Library to make it more accessible to the community. The…
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The Office for Public and Community-Engaged Scholarship (PACES) is pleased to announce our Fall 2024 Tier 2 grantees. Tier 2 grants support faculty, staff and graduate students with undertaking and implementing public and community-engaged scholarship projects. In the fall competition, PACES awarded nearly $40,000 to support an array of projects from diverse disciplines including environmental…
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Associate Professor Jota Samper, Program in Environmental Design, is the 2024 recipient of the Excellence in Faculty Community Engagement Award from the Engagement Scholarship Consortium (ESC). This national award is one of the most prestigious of its kind. Samper’s research concentrates on sustainable urban growth, focusing on the intersection between urban informality and violent…
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Associate Research Professor Hannah Brenkert-Smith, Institute of Behavioral Science, is a member of the Wildfire Research (WiRē) Team that will receive the Pathfinding Partnerships Award through the 2024 Governor’s Awards for High Impact Research on Nov. 20. The award honors research that engages four or more distinct research entities in Colorado whose results leverage the…
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The University of Colorado Boulder’s Acequia Assistance Project is helping members of centuries-old water agreements, called acequias, understand their rights in Southern Colorado. “So acequias are a social institution, an irrigation institution, an agricultural institution that originated with Spanish and Mexican settlers in what is now the American Southwest, largely in New Mexico and in…
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The Office for Public and Community-Engaged Scholarship is pleased to announce our 2024-25 Tiers 3 and 4 grants (formerly named CU Boulder Outreach Awards). Tiers 3 and 4 fund faculty-led public and community-engaged scholarship that connects research, teaching and creative work with public needs and interests. Proposed projects must connect CU Boulder scholarship with the…
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