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乐播传媒, staff, others honored for diversity work

April 21, 2022

乐播传媒, employees and a unit are being honored for their efforts to promote diversity and inclusion in the College of Arts and Sciences. The winners are the recipients of the second annual awards from the Arts and Sciences Consortium of Committees on Climate, Equity, Inclusion and Diversity.

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New course to examine environment, power and race

April 13, 2022

How does environmental racism shape contemporary scientific and environmental practices? A new environmental studies course begining this fall, in partnership with Mission Zero, aims to reflect on the past to create a more equitable and responsible future.

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Applied mathematician gains top recognition

April 13, 2022

James Curry has been named a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, which recognizes those who have made 鈥渙utstanding contributions鈥 to the field.

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Program for historically excluded students gets big boost, more space

April 12, 2022

A sense of community is key to higher graduation rates and other measures of academic success, participants in the Miramontes Arts and Sciences Program say.

Alexander Williams

In rap music, alumnus pens lyrical prophecies

April 1, 2022

CU Boulder graduate Alexander Williams is working to raise the profile of rap and hip-hop scholarship. From very early on, he found that music gave him a sense of hope, possibility and agency.

Archie Christie, Major Belcher, Mr. Bates (secretary) and Agatha Christie

Notion of intimacy between rivals sparks basis for novel

March 31, 2022

The real-life disappearance of Agatha Christie inspired Nina de Gramont鈥攁 one-time CU Boulder creative writing student, who now has a New York Times bestselling novel, 鈥淭he Christie Affair.鈥

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Physicist, entrepreneur, space pioneer R.C. Mercure dies at 90

March 29, 2022

CU Boulder alumnus R.C. Mercure was instrumental in launching what became Ball Aerospace and other successful ventures.

Anna Louise Wolcott Vaile was the first female CU regent.

First woman elected a CU regent was a prohibitionist

March 22, 2022

Women鈥檚 history snapshot: Anna Louise Wolcott Vaile argued that social ills harming women could only be rectified with political power, which relied on women鈥檚 suffrage.

Patricia Rankin

Surprised by depth of bias, physicist works to bring more women to science

March 18, 2022

Women鈥檚 history snapshot: Patricia Rankin initially assumed when told she didn鈥檛 "look like a physicist," they were complimenting her on being well dressed.

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Mathematicians win prestigious NSF CAREER Awards

March 17, 2022

CU Boulder鈥檚 Agn猫s Beaudry and Sean O鈥橰ourke will use the support to advance homotopy theory and random matrix theory.

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