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Elisabeth Sheffield, associate professor of English, won a $25,000 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship in Prose this year. Photo by Noah Larsen.In each of the past two years, a CU-«Ƶ faculty member has won a Creative Writing Fellowship from the
CU-«Ƶ has hired its first Colorado Chair in Environmental Studies, an endowed chair awarded to Daniel Doak, a conservation biologist known for his quantitative analysis of how different government policies could affect the populations of species ranging from sea otters, California condors, corals, and rare plants.- Two «Ƶ undergraduate student teams have been named among the 10 top winners from a field of 3,697 teams that entered the international Mathematical Contest in Modeling.Results of the 2012 contest were announced this month
When transition between adolescence and adulthood is missed, young adults can suffer preventable consequences, CU research suggestsTo most Americans of today, the idea of adolescence—that period of transition from childhood to adulthood bracketed by
A «Ƶ dancer and performance artist has won a $50,000 USA Fellowship Grant, an award designed to put unrestricted grants “directly into the hands of America’s finest artists.”
Before the 20th century, the tropics were widely feared as home to dread diseases such as yellow fever and malaria. Building the Panama Canal helped change that view, but the brighter perception didn’t fully match the grittier truth.
«Ƶ Distinguished Professor Margaret Murnane has been awarded Ireland’s top science award, the RDS Irish Times Boyle Medal for Scientific Excellence, for her pioneering work that has transformed the field of ultrafast
Baylor Fox-Kemper, assistant professor of atmospheric and ocean sciences at the University of Colorado has won the Ocean Sciences Early Career Award from the American Geophysical Union.Fox-Kemper was cited for his “fundamental contributions to
Claire FaragoTwo «Ƶ professors are conducting research in Finland and the United Kingdom as Fulbright Scholars for the 2011-12 academic year.Professor Claire Farago of CU-«Ƶ’s art and art history department is doing
Noted scholar of Islam speaks at CU as part of effort to honor Professor Frederick DennyLong before Egyptians rose up against dictator Hosni Mubarak, Egyptian authorities prosecuted an Islamic scholar who argued that Muslims should view the Koran as