Women’s history snapshot: Anna Louise Wolcott Vaile argued that social ills harming women could only be rectified with political power, which relied on women’s suffrage.
Women’s history snapshot: Patricia Rankin initially assumed when told she didn’t "look like a physicist," they were complimenting her on being well dressed.
History overlooked Lucile Berkeley Buchanan, the first African American woman to graduate from the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½. A dogged CU journalist, Polly McLean, brought her back to the fore.
Mary Rippon was a bona fide pioneer who became a CU icon, but CU almost did not become her home. When CU’s first president, Joseph Sewall, invited Rippon to teach at CU, which had just opened its doors in September 1877, Rippon initially declined.
A team of four undergraduate students in the College of Media, Communication and Information is competing in an advanced public relations capstone project to help raise awareness among young adults about lymphoma, a type of blood cancer.
Jenny Horing, an aerospace doctoral student and Smead Scholar, has been poring over the latest results in her hypersonic flow and material response research, searching for clues in the data to better understand the next frontier in high-speed thermodynamics.
Saxophonist, composer and improviser Aakash Mittal is collaborating with current master’s student MarieFaith Lane on a project blending Hindustani and Western classical music.
From learning how to best address COVID-19 to tackling the ever-expanding effects of our changing climate, CU Boulder faculty, staff and students will always be found at the leading edge of the issues that matter most. Enjoy these stories of resilience, collaboration and impact.
Several new faculty hires in CU Engineering have a deep interest in bio-inspired engineering. While they are all looking at different forms, functions and problems, their shared interests in the natural world could drive exciting new interdisciplinary projects and research areas.
