Students in Focus
- Read about just a few of the talented, motivated and innovative students who are graduating and starting on their next adventure. Congratulations, Buffs!
- The College of Media, Communication and Information’s outstanding graduate will head to Stamford, Connecticut, this summer to work with NBC Sports as an Olympics production fellow.
- Wars tend to be remembered for their battlefield glory, not for soldiers’ recovery and reintegration into civilian life. A ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· senior, however, is using theater and veterans’ own words to change that.
- Freshman Malak Bouraeda, a mainstay in the Buffs’ lineup this fall, has made the transition from high school to collegiate golf look easy.
- ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· doctoral student Mickey Rush discusses his inspiring hydrology work in the Aysén region of Chilean Patagonia, where he used a Fulbright grant to gain modeling and research experience.
- Students such as Erika Isabel Bailon are pursuing their academic and career dreams with help from a 70-year-old program that provides Hispanic/Latino students with greater access to higher education.
- In the Literacy Practicum program, ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· students go into the community to work with students and adults on reading, writing and other skills, while gaining valuable experience themselves.
- Keegan McNamara, a ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· mathematics student, intends to give a voice to Boulder’s homeless as part of a storytelling project that has garnered thousands of followers on social media.
- The Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) offers students an opportunity they can't get at any other university: the chance to commune with spacecraft orbiting hundreds of miles from Earth.
- In ancient Rome, coins were not just payment but a form of communication and art. Diane Conlin’s students are inserting their fresh perspective into the CU Art Museum exhibit, opening in April.