Erika Isabel Bailon

Students in Focus: Talented recipients get much-needed support through LAEF scholarships

Feb. 28, 2019

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.

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Students in Focus: Literacy program helps teachers and students, prof says

Feb. 12, 2019

In the Literacy Practicum program, ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ students go into the community to work with students and adults on reading, writing and other skills, while gaining valuable experience themselves.

Homeless woman poses for a photo on Pearl Street

Students in Focus: Telling stories of Boulder’s ‘Forgotten Neighbors’

Feb. 8, 2019

Keegan McNamara, a ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ 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.

MMS operations center

Students in Focus: When deep space calls, students answer

Feb. 6, 2019

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.

Student examines ancient coin under a magnifying glass

Students in Focus: Collaborating on new Roman coin exhibit

Feb. 5, 2019

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 CU Art Museum exhibit, opening in April.

Typeset poem

Students in Focus: Making rhyme and reason of the periodic table

Dec. 14, 2018

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.

Serene Singh in front of Varsity Lake on campus

Colorado's finest: Meet CU's first female Rhodes Scholar

Dec. 10, 2018

Colorado Springs native Serene Singh, a ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ senior in political science and journalism, will begin her studies at Oxford University next fall.

EducationUSA Academy group at the Broadway pedestrian underpass on campus

Students in Focus: EducationUSA Academy leads Argentinian to enroll at CU

Oct. 17, 2018

Michaela Bara hit the ground running at ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ, having learned about the education system and college life in the U.S. through a college-bound program she had done on campus.

Behruzkhon Rashidov, President and founder of the ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ Racing Team, works in the Idea Forge Machine shop.

Students in Focus: From rendering to race track

Oct. 10, 2018

The ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ 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.

Technical coordinator for women’s volleyball at ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ Eduardo Fiallos

Students in Focus: Volleyball tech guy setting for success with master's

Oct. 1, 2018

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 CU women's volleyball.

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