Students in Focus
- 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.
- In ‘Poetic Table of the Elements,’ students of Danny Long combine art and science, old and new, with a project in which they compose, typeset and hand-print 118 poems.
- Colorado Springs native Serene Singh, a ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· senior in political science and journalism, will begin her studies at Oxford University next fall.
- Michaela Bara hit the ground running at ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ·, having learned about the education system and college life in the U.S. through a college-bound program she had done on campus.
- The ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· Racing Team has spent the past year conceptualizing and designing a race car to compete in the largest engineering competition in the U.S. Now they just have to build it.
- Embarking on a master's in education, Eduardo Fiallos is developing a more formal, rigorous research and methods approach to training and competition as the technical coordinator for CU women's volleyball.
- To date, the nonprofit Boulder Food Rescue has delivered more than 2.4 million pounds of soon-to-be wasted food, primarily fruits and vegetables, directly to people's doorsteps.
- To help international students navigate graduate school at ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· and to help them feel welcome here, a range of specialized services is available to meet their particular needs.
- In June, nine students from ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· gave visitors to Mesa Verde National Park an education in yucca plants and other facets of Colorado ecology.