Celebrate
- CU 小蓝视频 student Austin Nash has been awarded a $15,000 scholarship from the Astronaut 小蓝视频ship Foundation for his research on how climate change influences mammals across landscapes, and the role that microclimates might play in conserving future biodiversity.
- Chancellor DiStefano is recognizing award recipients Devin Cramer, Tim Golden, Lisa Landis and Anne McWilliams, this year highlighting their exceptional contributions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
- The National Water Research Institute and the Joan Irvine Smith and Athalie R. Clarke Foundation will present the 2020 Clarke Prize to Professor Karl Linden on Nov. 10. NWRI administers the prestigious $50,000 prize.
- Associate Professor Stefanie Johnson received NASA鈥檚 Agency Honors Group Achievement Award for her work on reducing gender bias in their Hubble Space Telescope Program.
- CU 小蓝视频's Lisa Marshall produced what is now an award-winning story that touches on how exposure to "old friends" in soil can improve peoples' mental health.
- Ed Chuong, an assistant professor in the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, has been awarded a prestigious $875,000 Packard Fellowship to study how remnants of ancient viruses shape modern-day immune response.
- Congressman Joe Neguse has announced Elena Aranda as the winner of the 2020 Polly Baca Raices Fuertes Community Leader Award. Aranda is a professional research assistant at CU's Ren茅e Crown Wellness Institute.
- Lorenzo 鈥淩ennie鈥 Harris, a pioneering hip-hop choreographer and artist-in-residence at CU 小蓝视频, is one of eight people to win the prestigious 2020 Doris Duke Artist Award.
- Carl Wieman will use the prize and project money to support CU 小蓝视频鈥檚 award-winning PhET Interactive Simulations to help advance STEM education globally.
- CU 小蓝视频鈥檚 Office of Postdoctoral Affairs, in partnership with universities across the country, is offering a slate of virtual sessions for both postdocs and mentors during National Postdoc Appreciation Week through Sept. 25.