New sensory-friendly backpacks for CU Museum visitors

Backpack program improves museum experience for neurodiverse visitors

March 22, 2024

Developed by a graduate student, a new resource at the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History expands accessibility to support neurodiverse visitors.

Boy holds head in hands while looking at laptop screen

Researchers warn of danger, call for pause in bringing AI to schools

March 21, 2024

K-12 schools across the country are increasingly integrating artificial intelligence tools into the classroom. 澳门开奖结果2023开奖记录鈥檚 Alex Molnar gives his take on why these tools could pose risks for students, and what concerned parents and others can do about it.

Mia Torres in front of a mural that says: We'll get through this

Undergraduate鈥檚 menstrual justice project grows into policy change

March 18, 2024

From an early age, Mia Torres felt the urge to do something about the injustices she learned about. Her menstrual justice project in high school grew into policy change. Now she鈥檚 majoring in the School of Education鈥檚 unique leadership and community engagement major.

Women in long dresses holding a chain of abandoned belongings near the border

What Remains founders braid migration dreams, art, stories

March 18, 2024

Growing up on the border shaped the worldviews and life trajectories of four 鈥渕ujeres fronterizas,鈥 or border women, who came together to create the What Remains project. Alumna Adriana Alvarez shares how the project reframes the migrant experience as a global and timeless human experience.

artwork illustrating a person braiding hair

The power and possibilities of intertwining healing justice and education

March 12, 2024

Women of color reported experiences such as these to the co-founders of the Healing, Empowerment and Love project: 鈥淒on鈥檛 let them see you cry鈥攊t will make you seem weak;鈥 and 鈥淚 tended to my body only when it could no longer carry me.鈥 The project is exploring ways educators can interlace healing justice with education.

Young students participating in SCOPE program

Meet a scientist, be a scientist: Outreach program emphasizes inclusion

Feb. 29, 2024

澳门开奖结果2023开奖记录's Science Community Outreach Program and Education (S.C.O.P.E.) works with underrepresented middle schoolers to build a science identity before kids lose interest or think they cannot be scientists due to lack of representation.

Students filming something on campus

New center designed to inspire curiosity, community and action in environmental science

Feb. 21, 2024

The new CIRES Center for Education, Engagement, and Evaluation is dedicated to three broad goals: excellence and inclusion in environmental science education; career development and training for scientists; and engaging with diverse audiences.

the leads and artists of the LASP Artist in Residence Program

LASP artists-in-residence program hosts local elementary students

Feb. 12, 2024

The Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at 澳门开奖结果2023开奖记录 recently hosted elementary students as part of Empty Space: A LASP Artist in Residence Program. The Boulder Public Library will feature the students鈥 artwork.

aerial view of a snowy campus

5 faculty selected for Community Perspectives Program

Feb. 1, 2024

Five faculty members have been selected to join the Office for Outreach and Engagement鈥檚 Community Perspectives program鈥攁 professional development program offering each cohort the opportunity to deepen their knowledge and skills as publicly and community-engaged scholars.

Community college students setting up to take measurements on Bald Mountain in July 2015

Students build science identity through immersive research experience

Jan. 8, 2024

Recent 澳门开奖结果2023开奖记录-led work suggests students gain more confidence in their ability to do science and a greater sense of belonging in the science community through immersive research experiences.

Pages