New basketball seats in an empty arena

Faculty in Focus: Jack Zable is changing how the NBA warms up

June 21, 2019

The Milwaukee Bucks, like most NBA teams, were using standard folding chairs for bench seats. Players sat on cold surfaces with their knees crunched up, causing stiffness. Jack Zable, a professor emeritus of mechanical engineering, changed that.

Jack Burns in front of the moon

Faculty in Focus: Heading back to the moon (this time, for good)

June 21, 2019

Getting humans back to the moon is one thing. Jack Burns and other CU scientists are asking, "How can we stay?" As the United States prepares to celebrate the 50th anniversary, on July 20, of Neil Armstrong’s first lunar step, the nation is again getting serious about going back.

Zoe Donaldson

Faculty in Focus: The CU scientist cracking the love code

June 14, 2019

Intrepid brain scientist Zoe Donaldson and an army of furry rodents are decoding life’s most complex emotions: love and loss.

Shilo Brooks in his office

Faculty in Focus: Exploring the relationship between democracy and technology

May 20, 2019

Shilo Brooks, faculty director of the Engineering Leadership Program, has been awarded a fellowship at Princeton University, where he will spend 10 months on research for his next book.

Soap film as beautiful art

Faculty in Focus: Using engineering to teach art

April 26, 2019

Mechanical engineering professor Jean Hertzberg shares her enthusiasm for nature’s beauty by teaching students to reveal the hidden splendors of mingling gases and liquids—and make art of it.

Danielle Rivera's students

Faculty in Focus: Making the invisible visible

April 10, 2019

Assistant Professor Danielle Rivera describes how she unearths and amplifies marginalized communities’ theories and histories through her community-based research.

Norm Pace

Faculty in Focus: Blowing the doors off the microbial world

March 28, 2019

CU Boulder’s Norm Pace isn’t intimidated by the darkness of remote caves, or the vastness of the microbial universe. He’s mastered both.

CU Boulder chemistry graduate student  leads experiments for high school students attending the Upward Bound program.

Faculty in Focus: Transforming undergraduate science education

Feb. 7, 2019

A new open-source handbook, co-authored by Stephanie Chasteen, provides guidance for implementing evidence-based improvements in undergraduate STEM education.

Kids work on coding skills

Faculty in Focus: Teaming up to give kids computational competence

Feb. 1, 2019

The Communities Code initiative has garnered university outreach awards for the last four years, and its founders say the program boosts not only kids’ tech skills but also their self-esteem.

Dean Sara Thompson

Faculty in Focus: A century of innovative outreach and engagement

Jan. 11, 2019

In this conversation with Continuing Education Dean Sara Thompson, find out how the division she leads connects university resources with communities statewide.

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