innovation
Second-annual Dean’s Innovation Fund awards a total of $200,000 to projects spanning the College of Arts and Sciences.
Using innovative fluorescent sensors and computational modeling, ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder biochemistry researcher Amy Palmer tracked naturally cycling cells to better understand an essential micronutrient.
The Social Entrepreneurship and Sustainability class focuses on using business innovations to address real-world needs.
After a successful three-year trial run, the program is being made permanent with the goal of further innovating cross-discipline teaching in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Inaugural group of proposals was ‘universally strong and worthy,’ Dean Glen Krutz notes.
Along the way, both of them, with help from ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder, pave the way for greater accessibility in laboratory research
‘Learning hip-hop can give engineering students an opportunity to get out of the lab and use a different part of their brain,’ instructor says.
The Miramontes Arts and Sciences Program teaches students to listen to, understand and connect with one another across backgrounds, values and experiences.
One goal is to increase the diversity of STEM fields by emphasizing that ‘we need to stop trying to get girls to act like boys in order to be part of the math world.’
¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder geologists are addressing one of their field’s big struggles, accommodating people with physical limitations.