Scene from 'Song of Salt' documentary

Artist-focused documentary film fest returns Aug. 2–7

July 29, 2022

The Mimesis Documentary Festival is described as an immersive theatrical and virtual slate of movies, workshops and more with artists, producers and scholars from around the world.

aftermath of Marshall Fire in Boulder area

Collaborators preserve voices from the fire

July 25, 2022

A Boulder anthropology professor and students have collaborated with a local museum to preserve narratives from the devastating Marshall Fire.

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‘Feral wolf howl’ play about girlhood premieres at Boulder

July 20, 2022

Now through July 30, see the Pulitzer Prize finalist “Dance Nation” by Clare Barron performed in Boulder's Black Box Theater. The Colorado premiere features a host of students, alumni and faculty.

a student memorial after a mass shooting at a high school in 2019

Experts shed light on preventing violence

July 6, 2022

As the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence at Boulder turns 30, its founder and current director share thoughts on the center’s legacy.

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Despite pandemic, students open doors

June 24, 2022

While the COVID-19 pandemic has been restrictive and isolating, students have sought stronger, inclusive communities and used creative means to generate understanding and connection with others in need. Here are three students who strive to make their communities stronger.

Children in Afghanistan skateboarding thanks to the Skateistan nonprofit

Education on the quarter pipe

June 23, 2022

Alumnus Rory Burke is working with a nonprofit called Skateistan to help kids across the globe achieve academic goals through skateboarding.

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Major gift to enhance diversity of life-science researchers

June 23, 2022

Six life science scholars will embark on their PhD studies and contribute their unique cultural experiences to the Boulder campus this fall through a nearly $1.9 million gift to the university from the Shurl and Kay Curci Foundation.

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Award-winningfilmmakergives persistence, ‘energy’to next generation

June 22, 2022

John W. Comerford, who discovered the power of film at Boulder, arranges major gift to its Stan Brakhage Moving Image Art Forum and Studies Collection.

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Indigenous scholar investigates changing relationship of fish, people

June 22, 2022

A Boulder doctoral candidate in ethnic studies with an emphasis on Native American and Indigenous studies has received the 2022–23 Henry Roe Cloud Dissertation Fellowship at Yale University.

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Young biochemist wins prestigious Boettcher award

June 13, 2022

Aaron Whiteley, Boulder assistant professor of biochemistry, is one of eight to win this year’s Boettcher Foundation Webb-Waring Biomedical Research Award.

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