Celebrate
The University of Colorado track and field aluma Sage Hurta was named a Co-Pac-12 NCAA Woman of the Year nominee along with USC’s Anna Cockrell.
Zach Berta-Thompson and Michael Ritzwoller have won the Evelyn Hooker Advocacy Award, named for a pioneering psychologist who graduated from CU СÀ¶ÊÓƵ.
CU Museum of Natural History Curator Jennifer Shannon has garnered a fellowship to "deploy the humanities for the public good."
Briana Aboulache and Karolin Luger won the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Gilliam fellowship, which looks to build a more inclusive scientific environment.
CU СÀ¶ÊÓƵ Professor Jack Burns, who has longstanding ties to NASA and deep experience in space research, is the newest member elected by academic peers into the astronautics organization.
Melissa Villarreal, a doctoral student in sociology, won a grant from the American Sociological Association for her work with housing recovery among Houston-area immigrants.
The University of Colorado СÀ¶ÊÓƵ is a finalist for a national innovation award that recognizes exemplary initiatives spurring innovation, entrepreneurship and technology-based economic development.
Cody Watson was recognized as a winner of the Council on Undergraduate Research's Engineering Division Student Video Competition this year.
For the second time, Colorado track and field will have two Buffs compete at the same time in the Olympics––in the women's steeplechase. Emma Coburn and Val Constien finished first and third, respectively, in recent Olympic trials.
Alexa Kuenstler, a postdoc in the Bowman and Hayward labs, and Lesli Mark, formerly of the Medlin group, are among 11 other postdoctoral fellows selected as Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellows in Chemical Sciences for 2021.