Grantee Stories

  • three people stand in front of a giant fake bird
    The award will fund small exhibits created by high school students that will tour museums and birding festivals throughout the Americas, raising awareness about climate change and promoting STEM diversity
  • Students in Trinidad attend a presentation at the Water Festival
    University of Colorado Law School students Oliver Skelly and Ellen Beckert represented the Acequia Assistance Project* at the 2023 Trinidad Water Festival. Below is a Q & A with Skelly and Beckert.How would you describe the water festival? 
  • Kids hold up paintings they made
    CU Boulder's Elementary Arts Lab (EAL) is an interdisciplinary team of graduate and undergraduate students supporting elementary school teachers with a multidisciplinary approach to teaching traditional science. EAL founder and postdoc Emma
  • Kayla Toledo headshot
    Kayla Toledo, a member of the Jemez Indian Tribe located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, has been caring for children her whole life. Since the age of 12, Kayla has played a huge role in raising her family's children and caring for the little ones during the summer, some as young as six months old. With six siblings and countless cousins, Kayla has worked long hours contributing to their upbringing. Her story is one of many for people in her community, as childcare options are sparse. Thats why Kayla was first inspired to create change in the Native American childcare space and pioneer an initiative to bring daycare centers to Native American families where they can learn and be educated on their culture.
  • View of grasslands in front of Boulder Flatirons
    CU Boulder Ecology and Evolutionary Biology scientist Katharine Suding is leading ongoing research in partnership with City of Boulder Open Space
  • Outreach Award recipients pose with CU Boulder president and provost
    Recipients of the 2022-23 CU Boulder Outreach Awards and CU Boulder leaders gathered on April 25 to celebrate public and community-engaged scholarship that connects the university with communities across Colorado and beyond.  More than 15,000
  • a woman instructs a young boy how to read a chart
    This spring Community Impact Grants and Micro Grants were awarded that will positively impact science, music, literacy, ethics, and math education in Colorado K-12 schools and nonprofit organizations. We also funded a community college research
  • outreach and engagement program locator
    The Office for Outreach and Engagement is currently accepting funding proposals for the 2023-24 CU Boulder Outreach Awards. The deadline to apply is Friday, April 14 by 5 p.m. The CU Boulder Outreach Awards fund faculty-led outreach and
  • Outside in the snow, a female researcher holds a bottle while a male researcher pours a surface water sample in it.
    The Marshall Fire also spurred researchersmany of them personally affected by the fireto pivot and apply their expertise to the aftermath. One year later, dozens of ongoing research projects continue to explore the science behind what happened that day, the widespread impacts on people, pets and the environment and how we can mitigate future catastrophes amid a changing climate.
  • kids doing needlework
    Climate change is real, and its happening fast. A group of 24 eighth graders at Casey Middle School want adults to accept this as fact.When these students compared daily high temperatures from Mazatl獺n, in Sinaloa, Mexico and Boulder, for the years
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