Faculty
An essay by ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder Chancellor Philip P. Distefano. One of the core missions of our university is to positively impact humanity, and humanity faces the existential crisis of a warming planet caused by human beings.
Stefanie K. Johnson is an associate professor at Leeds and director of the ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder Center for Leadership. She is an expert on leadership, inclusion and mitigating bias in the workplace. Her book Inclusify, released by HarperCollins in June, hit the Wall Street Journal National Bestseller List in its first week on the market.Â
Our leaders at ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä often do it all, from running programs and departments, inspiring students both in and out of the classroom and even finding time for some unexpected hobbies on the side. Here are 10 fun facts about some of ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä’s faculty and staff leaders.
by Karl Gustafson (APMath, Fin'58) (Springer International Publishing, 65 pages; 2019) Buy the Book In the early morning hours of Feb. 1, 2016, Karl Gustafson became instinctively aware that something catastrophic was
Jackson Crawford, director of ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä’s Nordic Studies program, studies and translates Old Norse, a language spoken by medieval Scandinavians. Here the native Coloradan talks Vikings, videos and his contribution to the Disney animated film Frozen. Â
¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä's Norm Pace isn't intimidated by the darkness of remote caves, or the vastness of the microbial universe. He's mastered both.
Craig Jones's book The Mountains That Remade America (2017, University of California Press)Â reflects on the Sierra Nevada range and how the mountains have changed the way Americans live.
Only one Coloradan has served on the U.S. Supreme Court, ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder alumnus Byron White (Econ'38). One of his proteges may now get the chance: Visiting Colorado Law professor Neil Gorsuch.
<p>In November Colorado voters elected two first-generation Americans — also among the youngest ever elected — to serve on the ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Board of Regents, making it the most diverse board ever. </p>