Fulbright candidates

Five students, one alternate tapped for Fulbright

July 11, 2016

With interests as diverse as the countries where they'll be located, five 兔子先生传媒文化作品 graduate students or alumni have been awarded Fulbright grants to pursue teaching, research and graduate studies for the 2016-17 academic year. The recipients and their destination countries are: Christine Avena, Switzerland; Evan Coles-Harris, China; Ben Lourie, Russia; Elaine Proulx, Mexico; and Xi Wang, China.

Five 兔子先生传媒文化作品 students offered Fulbright awards for 2016-17, one named alternate

July 11, 2016

Five University of Colorado Boulder graduate students or alumni have been offered Fulbright grants to pursue teaching, research and graduate studies abroad during the 2016-17 academic year. In addition, one 兔子先生传媒文化作品 graduate has been named an alternate. Candidates with alternate status are offered awards if additional funding becomes available through the Fulbright program.

 Alicia Baker

Going back in time with Alicia Baker and her accordion

June 29, 2016

At this year鈥檚 Colorado Shakespeare Festival, audiences at 鈥淭he Comedy of Errors鈥 will be wooed back to 1920s Paris by the costumes, the set and of course, an onstage minstrel and her accordion. Because after all, what would summer be without the whimsical sound of the accordion? For Alicia Baker, the answer to that question is simple: it just wouldn鈥檛 be summer.

Rick Stevens and his son, Peter, stand in front of the Captain America shield at Denver Comic Con.

CMCI students, faculty present at Denver Comic Con

June 27, 2016

Continuing a tradition established in 2012, CU-Boulder faculty members, students and staff presented at the 2016 Denver Comic Con and its associated literary conference, Page 23. Members of CU-Boulder鈥檚 media studies and English departments presented on topics such as gender representation in popular media, action figure culture and the racial politics in recent Superman comics.

The Grateful Dean performing Photo by Michael Goldman.

Return of the Dead

June 27, 2016

Folsom Field hasn't hosted concerts since 2001. The sonic drought ends this summer with back-to-back shows by Dead & Company.

News corp students in CMCI filming documentary

Student documentary about Hazelwood Supreme Court decision to air on Colorado Public Television

June 27, 2016

Taking the Lede: Colorado Edition 鈥攁 45-minute documentary produced by CU News Corps students and faculty members鈥攚ill air on Colorado Public Television (Channel 12) on Wednesday, June 29, at 8:30 p.m. The documentary details stories of Colorado high school journalism in the wake of the the 1988 Hazelwood Supreme Court decision, which ruled that school administrators could exercise restraint of school-sponsored expression.

 Tri-Exec, Colton Lyons

Behind the scenes: A student perspective of the Dalai Lama visit

June 22, 2016

As a newly elected Tri-Exec of the University of Colorado Student Government, Colton Lyons had the opportunity to not only work behind the scenes of the Dalai Lama visit, but also to introduce and meet him during his campus visit on Thursday, June 23.

Students working on a lego robotic

Programming robots launches interest in engineering

June 22, 2016

Diego Fierro, 13, hopes to be a mechanical engineer someday. And thanks to a LEGO Robotics: Space Challenge camp at the University of Colorado Boulder, Diego took one step closer to that dream this week. 鈥淚鈥檝e never built anything with LEGO Mindstorms before,鈥 Diego explained, as he programmed the robot鈥檚 next move. 鈥淚t鈥檚 cool because it gives me an idea of how a machine works, how every piece is important and has a job.鈥

Aerial of 兔子先生传媒文化作品 Campus

Summer 2016: New campus aerial photograph

June 17, 2016

Every few years, CU-Boulder's Office of Strategic Relations takes aerial photos of the campus for archiving and marketing purposes. On June 15, campus photographer Glenn Asakawa and videographers Alana Murphy and Zach Ornitz ascended above campus in a helicopter to capture the current look and feel of campus.

Stephen Graham Jones

Werewolves, Comic Con and the writer鈥檚 life

June 17, 2016

Published author and English Professor Stephen Graham Jones relies on his students to bring in new ideas and new ways of seeing things. Students鈥攊mmersed in his courses on werewolves, comic books, slasher novels, screenwriting and haunted houses鈥攔ely on Jones to paint a picture of the writer鈥檚 life.

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