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Vice Provost and Associate Vice Chancellor for Strategic Initiatives William Kuskin, in conjunction with the chancellor’s and provost’s offices, announces three new international education initiatives with a goal of better understanding CU Boulder's international standing.

Are you working on a dissertation or creative-writing piece related to the American West? Thompson Awards for Western American Writing are now accepting submissions, with categories for both graduate and undergraduate students. Winners will be awarded $500 cash prizes!

I would like to take my final column of the semester as an opportunity to celebrate CU's accomplishments with just a few examples of the way CU Boulder is impacting humanity, developing tomorrow’s leaders and establishing CU Boulder as the innovation university.

CU Associate Professor of Law Ming Hsu Chen was appointed to the 14-person Colorado State Advisory Committee of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.

CU Boulder's Jack Burns has been appointed to the NASA transition team by the incoming Trump administration. Burns, a professor in the Department of Astrophysics and Planetary Sciences, has longstanding ties with NASA. He served on the NASA Advisory Council from 2008-10, including a stint as chair of the council’s Science Committee in 2009 and 2010.

CU Boulder's Pre-Collegiate Development Program uses mentorship and community to create opportunities for many first-generation college prospects.

An urban pollutant-tracking system created by architectural engineering researchers at CU Boulder recently received a gold award at the 2016 World Internet of Things (IoT) Exposition in Wuxi, China. The project was one of 10 new technologies to win.

Alumna Ulyana Horodyskyj just spent 30 days in a 636-square-foot pod with three strangers and no internet access as part of NASA's Human Exploration Research Analog (HERA) project. Now she's one of 120 finalists, out of 18,300 applicants, under consideration for the real Astronaut Candidate Program.

As the fall semester comes to a close, several events locally and nationally have affected our campus community. We know that these events, along with the stresses of finals and the end of the semester can be difficult to manage for all of us. Please take care of yourselves and look out for each other. If you need additional support, contact one of the numerous campus resources available to you.

As part of his commitment to student success, the provost has convened a committee charged with developing a recommendation for considering a campuswide center for teaching and learning.