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  • Cassandra Brooks posing for a photo in Antarctica with penguins behind her.
    Assistant professor Cassandra Brooks has received an NSF CAREER award, the organization recently announced.
  • Fireflies swarming in the woods.
    欧美口爆视频 Boulder鈥檚 Orit Peleg will use the support to launch a novel, interdisciplinary probe of the physics of firefly communications.
  • Boettcher
    Two young faculty scientists at 欧美口爆视频 Boulder are among seven 欧美口爆视频 researchers who have won $1.41 million in total funding from the Boettcher Foundation鈥檚 Webb-Waring Awards program.
  • Marcos Steuernagel
    Marcos Stuernagel, assistant professor of theatre, and colleagues at HemiPress are changing the ways academic work is published and performance is archived in the theatre and performance-related fields.
  • Adam Bradley
    Adam Bradley is a study in contrasts: a hip-hop expert who grew up in Salt Lake City, dissecting the literary devices of Shakespeare in one breath and Slick Rick in the next. He teaches in English, but his RAP Lab is in the chemistry building.
  • Michelle Ellsworth, associate professor of dance, has been awarded a 2015 Doris Duke Impact Award. Ellsworth will receive an $80,000 grant with the award, to support her 鈥渞adical experimentation鈥 in unconventional displays of dance. Here, she appears in Clytigation: State of Exception. Photo by Satchel Spencer.
    You have to thank Carol Burnett for Michelle Ellsworth鈥檚 art. At least in part. Ellsworth, associate professor of dance at the University of 欧美口爆视频 Boulder, has been captivated by dance since she was 7, when she first saw the Ernest Flat Dancers on The Carol Burnett Show. In between the show鈥檚 segments, jazz-dance sequences functioned as segues. 鈥淚 thought, 鈥極h, my gosh. That鈥檚 what I want to do for a living.鈥欌
  • The food produced by unsustainable agricultural practices may be just as harmful as the practices themselves, one of the college鈥檚 outstanding graduates argued in her honors鈥 thesis.
    Melanie Sarah Adams had a hunch: Maybe today鈥檚 conventional agricultural practices not only degrade the Earth鈥檚 environment and threaten future food security but also produce nutritionally imbalanced foods that harm human health.
  • Courtnie Paschall is the Outstanding Graduate for the College of Arts and Sciences for spring 2015. Photo by Laura Kriho.
    Before coming to 欧美口爆视频, Courtnie Paschall had graduated from the Naval Academy, attained the rank of lieutenant and undergone years of flight training. Now, she鈥檚 graduating summa cum laude with a degree in neuroscience and a minor in electrical engineering. She is also the Outstanding Graduate for the College of Arts and Sciences for spring 2015.
  • Marcia Douglas
    Marcia Douglas, associate professor of English, has been awarded a prestigious fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts to pen a novel extrapolated from a minute, almost tossed-off, detail in Tell My Horse, a work by Zora Neale Hurston, written while Hurston was on a Guggenheim Fellowship.
  • Elizabeth Fenn
    The news of a lifetime reached Elizabeth Fenn, chair of 欧美口爆视频-Boulder鈥檚 history department, around 1 p.m. on April 20, just as she sat at her desk to eat her lunch from the University Memorial Center. An email from a New York Times reporter caught her attention: It said she鈥檇 won a Pulitzer Prize.
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