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Nine ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· students and alumni have been named Fulbright finalists for the 2022–23 academic year by the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. One student declined the scholarship and another five students were named alternates.

Aaron Whiteley, ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· assistant professor of biochemistry, is one of eight to win this year’s Boettcher Foundation Webb-Waring Biomedical Research Award.

ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· 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—Boulder 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 Scholars have chosen to attend ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· 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 ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· startups by the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade.