Students in Focus
Students such as Erika Isabel Bailon are pursuing their academic and career dreams with help from a 70-year-old program that provides Hispanic/Latino students with greater access to higher education.
In the Literacy Practicum program, Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder students go into the community to work with students and adults on reading, writing and other skills, while gaining valuable experience themselves.
Keegan McNamara, a Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder mathematics student, intends to give a voice to Boulder’s homeless as part of a storytelling project that has garnered thousands of followers on social media.
The Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) offers students an opportunity they can't get at any other university: the chance to commune with spacecraft orbiting hundreds of miles from Earth.
In ancient Rome, coins were not just payment but a form of communication and art. Diane Conlin’s students are inserting their fresh perspective into the Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Art Museum exhibit, opening in April.
In ‘Poetic Table of the Elements,’ students of Danny Long combine art and science, old and new, with a project in which they compose, typeset and hand-print 118 poems.
Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Springs native Serene Singh, a Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder senior in political science and journalism, will begin her studies at Oxford University next fall.
Michaela Bara hit the ground running at Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder, having learned about the education system and college life in the U.S. through a college-bound program she had done on campus.
The Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder Racing Team has spent the past year conceptualizing and designing a race car to compete in the largest engineering competition in the U.S. Now they just have to build it.
Embarking on a master's in education, Eduardo Fiallos is developing a more formal, rigorous research and methods approach to training and competition as the technical coordinator for Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ women's volleyball.