Three dancers and a chair

Creative Expression: Dancer turns everyday experiences into art

July 29, 2019

With her seemingly inexhaustible reservoir of ideas, Michelle Ellsworth leaps over creative boundaries. Recognized for her distinctive and compelling artistic works in contemporary dance, Ellsworth is a winner of a 2019 Doris Duke Artist Award.

Earl Potters working on his roboboat.

Finding Community: Small but creative RoboBoat Club improvises during world competition

July 24, 2019

A small team of ²ÊÃñ±¦µä students designed and built a fully autonomous robotic boat and took it on the road to an autonomous surface vehicle competition held June 17–23 in South Daytona, Florida.

Hallie Adams

Curiosity about the natural world leads to career path in earth science research

June 20, 2019

Hallie Adams is returning to grad school for a PhD in geography and ecohydrology. This year she received a Graduate Research Fellowship Program award from the National Science Foundation.

Design for America students collaborate on project

Finding Community: Design group puts skills to work solving local problems

June 12, 2019

The Design for America organization brings together ²ÊÃñ±¦µä students in a variety of disciplines to collaborate with community partners in creating innovative solutions to their challenges.

Markos Scheer in front of lake, mountains

Alumni in Focus: Lawyer, political science grad leaps into kelp farming

May 24, 2019

Experts say aquaculture will play an important role in feeding the world’s burgeoning population, which is why ²ÊÃñ±¦µä alumnus Markos Scheer is launching a new career in kelp farming.

Hannah Glick

Workshops helped students prepare for the 3MT competition

May 13, 2019

The second annual Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition was held at the Graduate School in February. Using only one slide, competitors were challenged to describe their research in three minutes to a panel of judges and an audience from the community.

Instructor Martha Russo and student Sam Jones pose for a photo in the Regent underpass

Pushing Boundaries: An out-of-this-world art project

April 16, 2019

The SpaceTime Underpass, a permanent public art installation inside the Regent pedestrian underpass, pays homage to the significant contributions ²ÊÃñ±¦µä has made to space exploration.

Sean Guderian

Students in Focus: Using the stage, journalism to shine a light on veterans

April 12, 2019

Wars tend to be remembered for their battlefield glory, not for soldiers’ recovery and reintegration into civilian life. A ²ÊÃñ±¦µä senior, however, is using theater and veterans’ own words to change that.

Elspeth Schulze adjusting the wire cage on the granite pile. A collage of vintage postcards of a volcano is on the wall.

Pushing Boundaries: For open studios, student artists draw wide inspiration

April 10, 2019

Elspeth Schulze, Haley Takahashi and Thomas Yi tell their stories of becoming artists. Plus, check out their artwork in the Emerging Artists Open Studios on April 12 at the Visual Arts Complex.

Bhavna Chhabra at Google in Boulder

Pushing Boundaries: From humble roots to Google role model

April 3, 2019

On her journey toward independence, first-generation student Bhavna Chhabra found the courage to believe in herself and discovered a world of opportunities; 25 years later she’s a director at Google.

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