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Five ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ students have earned Brooke Owens Fellowships. The highly competitive program provides paid internships and mentoring to exceptional undergraduate women seeking careers in aviation or space exploration.
The National Academy of Inventors announced that ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ researchers Mark Rentschler, Greg Rieker and Tin Tin Su have been designated as NAI senior members, in recognition of their impact on society through extraordinary innovation.
Staff Council is excited to honor Linda Frueh Wellmann, who has served at ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ for 50 years. Enjoy a short autobiography that highlights Frueh Wellman's time on campus and some of the memories she’s collected, as well as a note from a Nobel Prize laureate.
Michael Litos, an assistant professor of physics at ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ, has won an Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation.
Akhil Rao has won a dissertation award of which only two are given annually in recognition of unusually significant contributions to one's discipline.
University of Colorado Law School Professor Kristen Carpenter, an American Indian law scholar with expertise in property, cultural property, human rights and Indigenous peoples, has been appointed as a justice of the inaugural Supreme Court of the Shawnee Tribe.
Head Coach Karl Dorrell has gained a first-year coaching recognition by the Football Writers Association of America; he helped lead the Colorado Buffalos football team to a 4–2 record in a COVID-19 pandemic-shortened season.
In a 2021 ceremony, the CU community was finally able to honor the seven recipients of the 2020 Regent Awards. The awards include honorary degrees, university medals and a distinguished service award for some of the greatest contributors to CU, the state and the nation.
Historian Vilja Hulden, who is conducting a sweeping analysis of congressional lobbying from 1877 onward, has landed a major fellowship that will support her research.
In rankings released Jan. 6, two members of the ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ School of Education faculty were recognized as among the nation’s top 200 researchers whose scholarship bridges academic and public audiences.