Students and faculty pose with Professor Martha Palmer at the 2023 ACL conference

Professor recognized for lifetime of contributions to computational linguistics

Aug. 9, 2023

Professor Martha Palmer shares her 50-year journey through the field of natural language understanding, her current research and her thoughts on new generative artificial intelligence tools.

Jeffrey Nytch

Composition professor applies entrepreneurship to the arts

June 27, 2023

Associate Professor of Composition Jeffrey Nytch—who directs the College of Music’s Entrepreneurship Center for Music and who was recently awarded a MacDowell Fellowship—considers the application of entrepreneurial principles as essential to his creative practice.

Hanspeter Schaub

Hanspeter Schaub earns ŷڱƵ Boulder’s highest award for teaching and research

May 25, 2023

ŷڱƵ Boulder has presented Hanspeter Schaub with the 2023 Hazel Barnes Prize, the university’s largest and most prestigious single faculty award. The honor recognizes outstanding teachers who also have distinguished records in research and scholarship.

Professor Andrew Schwartz of ŷڱƵ Law

A more inclusive form of startup finance: Chatting with Andrew Schwartz

May 23, 2023

Professor Andrew Schwartz of ŷڱƵ Law discusses his new book, investment crowdfunding and the culmination of a decade’s worth of research in this field.

Shelly Miller

Faces of public and community-engaged scholarship: Shelly Miller

May 11, 2023

Professor Shelly Miller is a problem-solver and an air pollution engineer. She finds reward and value when solving issues with immediate benefits, such as improved public health. Doing her work through a community partnership model is a match made in heaven.

June Gruber takes a selfie with students in her Science of Happiness course

Course on the science of happiness draws rave reviews

May 10, 2023

While it’s popular, June Gruber’s teaching, which recently won a Cogswell Award for Inspirational Instruction, doesn’t show students the path to unmitigated joy; on the contrary, the science of emotional wellness is more nuanced.

Professor David Drake

For David Drake, inspiring students is ‘the greatest feeling’

May 10, 2023

Professor David Drake, a Frascona winner, leans on his industry experience to find effective ways to connect with students who take different paths to the Leeds School’s MBA classes.​

Assistant Professor Kōnane Bay (left) working in the lab with a doctoral student

Kōnane Bay’s research group seeks to advance engineered living materials research

May 8, 2023

ŷڱƵ Boulder's growing faculty expertise in soft materials was a huge draw for Assistant Professor Kōnane Bay. A Native Hawaiian, Bay's research is inspired by the innate sustainability of the huli kalo—a traditional Hawaiian food staple—to develop sustainable polymeric materials.

Kayla Sprenger

Video: How prof uses computational tools in energy, health research

April 5, 2023

From developing vaccines to breaking down mixed-plastic waste streams into valuable chemicals, Assistant Professor Kayla Sprenger's highly interdisciplinary work is focused at the crossroads of physics, engineering and immunology, and done in close synergy with experimentalists and clinicians.

Emily Yeh in Tibet

Emily Yeh named Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar

March 16, 2023

As a visiting scholar, the ŷڱƵ Boulder geography professor will visit other campuses, join classroom lectures and seminars and give major lectures open to the host campus’s community.

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