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¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä INVST: Eco-Social Justice & Community Transformation

Oct. 8, 2021

INVST is currently accepting early applications & they have scholarship awards for students who apply to INVST & are accepted into the Class of 2022-2024. That INVST cohort begins programming in Summer 2022. For IAFS Majors & Minors who have a commitment to environmental activism, who work for social justice,...

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Jackie LaMaire Rogers Receives Brightest Buff Award

Sept. 16, 2021

IAFS' own Program Manager, Jackie LaMaire Rogers, has received a Brightest Buff award from the ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder Staff Council. Jackie was recognized for her knowledge and collaborative spirit in the Social Sciences division of the College of Arts and Sciences, and for going above and beyond to share her expertise...

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Alumni Spotlight on Rory Burke: Skateistan is More Than Just Skateboarding with Kids

May 19, 2021

Rory Burke (IAFS ’03) is the Projects and Operations Director of the award-winning international non-profit organization, Skateistan . Through their innovative skateboarding and education programs, Skateistan empowers around 3000 youth aged 5-17 in Afghanistan, Cambodia, and South Africa. Their focus is on groups who are often excluded from sports and...

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Arts & Sciences Outstanding IAFS Graduates 2021

April 30, 2021

Class of 2021 outstanding graduates Each semester, thousands of students graduate from the College of Arts and Sciences. In order to recognize those students this year, the College of Arts and Sciences asked for nominations from the units to recognize the best of the best of those students. Were they...

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Katherine Rousseau, Arts & Sciences Employee of the Year 2020/21

April 30, 2021

Dear IAFS Community, Dr. Katherine Rousseau , our Assistant Director, has been recognized as an Arts & Sciences Employee of the Year for 2020/21. This is a highly selective and competitive award. Katherine is the first person in the Program in International Affairs to receive it. We are thrilled for...

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Mapping Afghanistan

June 26, 2020

Here’s a story Walker Kosmidou-Bradley (IntlAf’09) tells about his early life with maps: On a Boy Scout backpacking expedition up a slot canyon in southern Utah, when he was about 17, he and the hikers he was leading plotted their course along a river using U.S. Geographical Survey quads —...

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Faculty Council Committee on Racial and Ethnic Equity: COVID-19 message

May 21, 2020

The ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Faculty Council’s Committee on Racial and Ethnic Equity (CREE) has teamed with colleagues from areas of the University of Colorado system to produce a video message in support of the campus community during the pandemic. Faculty from across the four ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä campuses also speak out against racism and...

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¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder announces 2020–21 Fulbright awards (IAFS Highlight)

May 21, 2020

Eight ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder students and recent alumni have been named Fulbright finalists for the 2020–21 academic year by the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. The finalists and their host countries, where they will study or teach during the coming academic year, are Rayna...

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Dr. Teitelbaum Releases New Book on Steve Bannon, Global Powerbrokers and Geopolitics Today

Jan. 13, 2020

Benjamin R. Teitelbaum is a professor of ethnomusicology and international affairs at the University of Colorado Boulder, and is an award-winning expert on the radical right. He latest book, War for Eternity: Inside Bannon's Far-Right Circle of Global Power Brokers , is now available on Amazon ( click here )...

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Greg Young Gives Expert Opinion on the Continued Threat of ISIS

Oct. 29, 2019

¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder International Affairs and Political Science faculty, Gregory Young, was recently interviewed by NBC's 9 News to provide expertise on the future of Syria and ISIS now that Abu Bakr al Baghdadi is confirmed deceased. In the interview, Young weighed in on how despite the leader being dead, the...

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