Celebrate
- Aaron Whiteley, CU СÀ¶ÊÓÆµ assistant professor of biochemistry, is one of eight to win this year’s Boettcher Foundation Webb-Waring Biomedical Research Award.
- CU СÀ¶ÊÓÆµ Professor Karl Linden has landed a major fellowship to research solutions to water pollution in rural and First Nations communities in Canada.
- Claire McCollough, who is completing her master's in accounting at CU's Leeds School of Business, has become the first university student to win the Alteryx Grand Prix, a data analytics competition, a year after placing fifth overall.
- Assistant Professor Helanius Wilkins has won a $10,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for a choreographed duet. The CU College of Arts and Sciences matched the grant with another $10,000. With the funding, Wilkins and the CU dance division will collaborate with several presenter-partners, including Basin Arts and the Acadiana Center for the Arts in Louisiana and Keshet Center for the Arts in New Mexico.
- The AB Nexus program announced its fourth round of grant awards to faculty from the University of Colorado—СÀ¶ÊÓÆµ and Anschutz Medical campuses.
- Gordana Dukovic, a professor of chemistry who leads an interdisciplinary research group studying nanoscale materials in solar energy, is a finalist for one of the Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists.
- Cassandra Brooks has received an NSF CAREER Award to examine whether the Ross Sea's protection status is working. Part of what she'll look at is a large time series of ear bones from the Antarctic toothfish species—a health record of sorts.
- Twenty-three new Boettcher Foundation СÀ¶ÊÓÆµs have chosen to attend CU СÀ¶ÊÓÆµ next fall, the highest number of any Colorado institution. The highly sought-after scholarship covers the full cost of tuition and fees for undergraduate study within the state of Colorado.
- A number of grants totaling $1.75 million were recently awarded to venture partners at CU СÀ¶ÊÓÆµ startups by the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade.
- Beth Rossman, a sophomore majoring in environmental engineering, has been awarded a Udall СÀ¶ÊÓÆµship, becoming the 12th CU СÀ¶ÊÓÆµ student to be honored with the scholarship.