Theater professor Beth Osnes

Faculty in Focus: Praxis makes perfect

Nov. 13, 2017

Beth Osnes, associate professor of theater, approaches engaged scholarship by putting theory into practice (praxis) among communities, a topic she'll discuss Nov. 16.

Photo of printmaker Melanie Yazzie in her studio

Faculty in Focus: Printmaker finds inspiration in students, global connections

Nov. 1, 2017

It’s been many years since Melanie Yazzie made the painting that set the course of her career. But the CU Boulder professor vividly remembers the joy she felt the day she painted a blue elephant.

Doctoral student, bee expert Chelsea Cook inspects a hive

Faculty in Focus: Startup serves the bee and the bottom line

Sept. 29, 2017

Kimberly Drennan had two goals in summer 2014, and neither involved starting a business. Now she's CEO of a Boulder-based startup that helps commercial beekeepers remotely monitor hive health.

Ricarose Roque works at a computer with young students.

Faculty in Focus: Engaging families through creative technologies

Sept. 15, 2017

Ricarose Roque's research explores how to design inclusive learning experiences that enable young people to create and express themselves with new technologies and media.

Nobel laureate Thomas Cech

Faculty in Focus: Learning to love the classroom

Aug. 23, 2017

Leading up to his Best Should Teach keynote Aug. 31, Nobel laureate Thomas Cech discusses working with scores of first-year students and how the experience makes him a better scientist.

Lynn R Wolfe

Faculty in Focus: Work still beckons soon-to-be centenarian artist

July 18, 2017

The Art and Art History Department is celebrating the life, work and hundredth birthday of one of its formative faculty members, Lynn R. Wolfe. An exhibition of Wolfe's work runs through Aug. 31.

sabrina spencer

Faculty in Focus: Cracking the cellular code

July 18, 2017

A leading researcher in quantitative biology, Assistant Professor Sabrina Spencer has made a name for herself in her field through hard work and a dynamic view on cellular research.

Stevens and CMCI alumnus Christopher Bell pose with Stevens' son

Q&A: Media studies professor talks Comic Con

July 7, 2017

Rick Stevens shares his experiences from this year's Denver Comic Con, which saw the largest attendance since the initial event in 2012.

Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee the focus of professor's next book

June 26, 2017

Bruce Lee conquered generations of unflattering stereotypes about Asian men, and CU Boulder professor Daryl Maeda says the martial arts star is overdue for a deeper analysis than he's received in existing biographical works.

CU English Professor Stephen Graham Jones holds ax over shoulder

Wolfing out with Professor Jones

Jan. 5, 2017

"The monster you can believe in is a scarier monster." CU English professor Stephen Graham Jones got hooked on werewolves as a boy in West Texas. Now he’s made them the stars of his latest novel.

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