Celebrate
- Lorenzo “Rennie” Harris, a pioneering hip-hop choreographer and artist-in-residence at CU Boulder, is one of eight people to win the prestigious 2020 Doris Duke Artist Award.
- Carl Wieman will use the prize and project money to support CU Boulder’s award-winning PhET Interactive Simulations to help advance STEM education globally.
- CU Boulder’s Office of Postdoctoral Affairs, in partnership with universities across the country, is offering a slate of virtual sessions for both postdocs and mentors during National Postdoc Appreciation Week through Sept. 25.
- Jaylon McGhee is researching next-generation wind turbine designs through a prestigious National Science Foundation graduate research fellowship.
- Mike Gil, René Kissell, Sara Sanchez and Thaiesha Wright are the 2021 recipients of the Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowships for Diversity.
- Thanks to a $1.6 million grant, Dan Dessau, a CU Boulder physics professor, will spend five years striving to make breakthroughs in quantum systems technology.
- Kelsey Grant, a junior who advocates for climate change policies and environmental stewardship, is one of this year’s Udall Scholarship recipients.
- Eight CU Boulder students have been named Fulbright finalists for the 2020–21 academic year by the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.
- Congratulations to the director of graduate community and program development. The award provides an opportunity for students to recognize CU Boulder employees who have made a significant impact in their lives.
- Congratulations to Trevor Weschler, CU Boulder's student employee of the year.