The Office for Outreach and Engagement is delighted to announce recipients for two grant cycles: 2023–24 CU Boulder Outreach Awards and Fall 2023 Community Impact Grants. Programs granted CU Boulder Outreach Awards and Community Impact Grants extend faculty members’ research, teaching and creative work through mutually beneficial partnerships with communities across Colorado and beyond. The…
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A team at the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History is working with education and disability advocates to create science-education resources for deaf and hard-of-hearing children. Funded through a $22,800 grant from the CU Boulder Office for Outreach and Engagement, university staff are collaborating with educators and experts to develop free archeology, paleontology and biology lessons in…
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University of Colorado Law School students Oliver Skelly and Ellen Beckert represented the Acequia Assistance Project* at the 2023 Trinidad Water Festival. Below is a Q & A with Skelly and Beckert. How would you describe the water festival? Beckert: I would describe the Trinidad Water Festival as a place for students to realize…
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CU Boulder Outreach Award recipients, including members of the Attention, Behavior and Learning Clinic, joined CU Boulder leaders at the annual CU Boulder Outreach Awards Luncheon. From left to right, back row: PhD student Francesca Trane, Research Associate Laura Hinks, Vice Provost Scott Battle, Professor Erik Wilcutt. Front row: Chancellor Philip DiStefano, Vice Chancellor Ann…
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This spring Community Impact Grants and Micro Grants were awarded that will positively impact science, music, literacy, ethics, and math education in Colorado K-12 schools and nonprofit organizations. We also funded a community college research partnership in the biosciences, as well as arts and humanities programming both in Colorado and internationally. By the numbers:
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On Dec. 30, 2021, a quick-moving, grass-fueled wildfire in suburban Boulder County became the costliest wildfire in Colorado history. It burned 6,000 acres, destroyed more than 1,000 homes and damaged thousands of others. Hundreds of CU Boulder students, faculty and staff were among the thousands who fled parts of unincorporated Boulder County and the towns…
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Climate change is real, and it’s happening fast. A group of 24 eighth graders at Casey Middle School want adults to accept this as fact. When these students compared daily high temperatures from Mazatlán, in Sinaloa, Mexico and Boulder, for the years 1923 and 2021, they found significantly warmer results in 2021. For example, in…
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The CU Boulder Outreach Awards are well known. The Community Impact, Micro, and Undergraduate Community-Engaged Scholarship Grants are newer to our office’s funding opportunities and important gateways to conducting community-engaged scholarship. These grants are awarded twice annually (spring and fall) and range from $1,000 – $5,000. Faculty and staff members, as well as graduate and…
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