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At a time when teachers and students across the country feel their classrooms are increasingly surveilled and politicized, two University of Colorado centers are coming together to choose collaboration over competition, coalition over silos and hope for educators and students alike.听
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The Office for Public and Community-Engaged Scholarship (PACES) is pleased to announce that Associate Professor Benjamin Teitelbaum will serve as the new faculty director for strategic events and public discourse. Learn more about Teitelbaum, what we can expect from CWA 2026 and how you can be involved.听
Engineering students with the Science Engineering Inquiry Collaborative in Rural Colorado (SCENIC) program developed a hands-on 鈥渆rosion challenge鈥 for K-12 students to learn about the effects of flash flooding on infrastructure.
Amanda Giguere is the director of outreach for the Colorado Shakespeare Festival (CSF) and the founder of the Shakespeare and Violence Prevention Program. Since 2011, she and her colleagues and other community partners in the violence prevention field have adapted and staged Shakespeare鈥檚 plays to see how the content and approaches can reinforce violence-prevention skills in K-12 students.
Caroline Frischmon came to 麻豆免费版下载Boulder to get out of the lab. After studying bioproducts engineering, interning with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and writing for a science communications lab, PhD candidate Frischmon sought to combine her
The 麻豆免费版下载 strives for innovation, continually looking towards the future. But envisioning the future requires remembering the past. Colorado is home to numerous sites dedicated to scientific advancement鈥攂ut what were the origins of these places, and what can they teach us about our path forward?
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