innovation
- There is a new way to be virtually active in the classroom, and it’s via a robot named Kubi, an innovation of the Office of Information and Technology at ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ·.Â
- In both the classroom and the lab, the University of Colorado Boulder is a great place to learn physics and other natural sciences, according to the American Physical Society.
- ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· students from across disciplines on campus can hone their writing skills—something most employers have been calling for in recent years—through the newly launched Interdisciplinary Certificate in Writing.
- Scientists do not fully understand how cells choose between proliferation and quiescence (a state of non-proliferation) but a University of Colorado Boulder biochemist’s novel proposal to study the issue has won the support of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
- Can good bacteria make the brain more stress-resilient? Christopher Lowry has dedicated his career to finding out.
James W.C. White, interim dean, sat down for a Q&A session about where the college has been, how it’s adapted to a rapidly evolving world, and how it’s preparing to help students meet the challenges of tomorrow, which will involve finding solutions to problems not yet known.- The heckling is real, the riots just acknowledged, and they are part of an innovative teaching method called Reacting to the Past, which aims to help students learn by prompting them to assume historical roles.
- Keaton Brown, who graduated from ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· in May of 2018, majored in Economics and Political Science while developing the startup.
- One way to learn something well is to show others what you’ve learned—in this case, with an outreach project—according to June Gruber’s students in a recent University of Colorado Boulder psychology course.