Asia-Related Courses Fall 2024

Aug. 19, 2024

Internationalize your fall semester - take a course about Asia or study an Asian Language. ASIA 2500 Catastrophe and Resilience: Asian Experience of Climate Change TTh 9:30am-10:45am Shae Frydenlund ( shae.frydenlund@colorado.edu ) This reading-intensive undergraduate course has two central aims: to survey key themes in Asian climate and society, and...

CJAS 2024 now online!

Aug. 13, 2024

We are thrilled to announce that the latest issue of the Colorado Journal of Asian Studies is now available! This edition highlights the exceptional work of undergraduate students, offering a diverse mix of research and creative pieces that explore various aspects of culture, history, and contemporary issues. From an in-depth...

CU Boulder scholars honored as 2024 Guggenheim Fellows

Aug. 5, 2024

Reprinted from the College of Arts and Science's Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine by Rachel Sauer (June 13th, 2024) Researchers Emily Yeh and Brian Catlos are recognized for prior career achievements and exceptional promise Two ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Boulder scholars have been named 2024 Guggenheim Fellows , recognizing not only...

Promoting cultural understanding one storybook at a time

Aug. 1, 2024

Reprinted from CU Boulder Today Sitting at a small round table surrounded by children’s books about East Asia, CU student Valerie Lombogia reflects on the question she’s just been asked: “Do you have any meaningful or rewarding experiences you’d like to share from this program?†Valerie Lombogia showcases her assigned...

Emma Loizeaux - Luce/ACLS Travel Grants in China Studies

July 29, 2024

Emma Loizeaux, a Doctoral Candidate at the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Boulder Geography Department was awarded a Luce/ACLS Travel Grants in China Studies for her project "Carbon Capture: The Making of a Climate Change Solution in China" Abstract Carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS)—a technical fix that climate justice advocates say...

Horsepower: Professor unveils a new history of horses

July 25, 2024

Reprinted from Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine In his upcoming book, ‘Hoof Beats: How Horses Shaped Human History,’ William Taylor writes that today’s world has been molded by humans’ relationship to horses Nearly a million years ago in what is now southern England, human ancestors called Homo heidelbergensis were creating...

Seema Sohi Receives Prestigious Andrew Carnegie Fellowship

July 22, 2024

Huge congratulations to Dr. Seema Sohi for receiving the prestigious Andrew Carnegie Fellowship ! The Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program provides philanthropic support for scholarship in the humanities and social sciences that addresses important and enduring issues confronting our society. The award is for a period of up to two years...

Early childhood health interventions have ‘big, multi-generation impacts,’ research finds

July 18, 2024

Reprinted from Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine Tania Barham’s research suggests that it doesn’t take much to give impoverished people a better start to life It was the late ‘90s, and Tania Barham , future associate professor of economics at the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Boulder, was in Yemen, working as...

Asian Studies Program Director Lauren Collins receives RIO grant

July 16, 2024

Lauren Collins from the Center for Asian Studies has been awarded a Research & Innovation Office (RIO) Arts & Humanities Grant for her project " Enhancing Archiving Practices of Western Colonial-era Photographs of Southeast Asia (1850s-1950s) in American Academic Libraries." This project aims to make colonial-era photographs of Southeast Asia...

Graduating DMA student shares College of Music experience, future plans

July 11, 2024

When Joy Yamaguchi graduates from the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Boulder’s College of Music next week with a Doctor of Musical Arts degree (violin performance + Music Theory Certificate), the work she started here will continue well beyond her official stint as a student. “I’m looking forward to further developing the...

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