Academics
- <p class="p1"><span class="s1">Five University of Colorado Boulder graduate students or alumni have been offered Fulbright grants to pursue teaching, research and graduate studies abroad during the 2016-17 academic year.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">In addition, one 蜜桃传媒破解版下载 graduate has been named an alternate. Candidates with alternate status are offered awards if additional funding becomes available through the Fulbright program.</span></p>
<p>At this year鈥檚 Colorado Shakespeare Festival, audiences at 鈥淭he Comedy of Errors鈥 will be wooed back to 1920s Paris by the costumes, the set and of course, an onstage minstrel and her accordion. Because after all, what would summer be without the whimsical sound of the accordion? For Alicia Baker, the answer to that question is simple: it just wouldn鈥檛 be summer.</p>
<p>Continuing a tradition established in 2012, CU-Boulder faculty members, students and staff presented at the 2016 Denver Comic Con and its associated literary conference, Page 23. Members of CU-Boulder鈥檚 media studies and English departments presented on topics such as gender representation in popular media, action figure culture and the racial politics in recent Superman comics.</p>
<p><em>Taking the Lede: Colorado Edition</em>鈥攁 45-minute documentary produced by聽<a href="http://cunewscorps.com/about-us/">CU News Corps</a>聽students and faculty members鈥攚ill air on Colorado Public Television (Channel 12) on聽Wednesday, June 29, at 8:30 p.m.聽The documentary details stories of Colorado high school journalism in the wake of the the 1988 Hazelwood Supreme Court decision, which ruled that school administrators could exercise restraint of school-sponsored expression.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Diego Fierro, 13, hopes to be a mechanical engineer someday. And thanks to a LEGO Robotics: Space Challenge camp at the University of Colorado Boulder, Diego took one step closer to that dream this week.</p>
<p dir="ltr">鈥淚鈥檝e never built anything with LEGO Mindstorms before,鈥 Diego explained, as he programmed the robot鈥檚 next move. 鈥淚t鈥檚 cool because it gives me an idea of how a machine works, how every piece is important and has a job.鈥</p>
<p>Published author and English Professor Stephen Graham Jones relies on his students to bring in new ideas and new ways of seeing things. Students鈥攊mmersed in his courses on werewolves, comic books, slasher novels, screenwriting and haunted houses鈥攔ely on Jones to paint a picture of the writer鈥檚 life.</p>
After five years and the hard work of nearly 200 students, faculty and community members, Geometry Point at Romero Park in Lafayette is now open. Filled with colorful geometric shapes, math equations and artful displays of arithmetic, the park was designed to make math fun.
A new University of Colorado Boulder program will enhance undergraduate curriculum offerings in property rights at the <a href="http://colorado.edu/business"><span class="s2">Leeds School of Business.
Thirteen students from the CU-Boulder鈥檚 advertising program have won seven awards in a major international advertising contest. Their ad campaign entries range from a Lego fund to teach children about wildlife extinction to a LinkedIn platform designed to allow workplaces to address positive change around inequality.- The Office of the Provost is coordinating a test deployment of eportfolio technology in 2016-2017. While the concept of electronic portfolios for students has been around for a number of years, the technology has only recently improved to the point where it is easy for faculty to adopt a platform that their students could easily integrate into their classroom environments.