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As the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence at ²ÊÃñ±¦µä turns 30, its founder and current director share thoughts on the center’s legacy.

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.

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

Six life science scholars will embark on their PhD studies and contribute their unique cultural experiences to the ²ÊÃñ±¦µä campus this fall through a nearly $1.9 million gift to the university from the Shurl and Kay Curci Foundation.

John W. Comerford, who discovered the power of film at ²ÊÃñ±¦µä, arranges major gift to its Stan Brakhage Moving Image Art Forum and Studies Collection.

A ²ÊÃñ±¦µä 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.

Aaron Whiteley, ²ÊÃñ±¦µä assistant professor of biochemistry, is one of eight to win this year’s Boettcher Foundation Webb-Waring Biomedical Research Award.

Assistant Professor Helanius Wilkins has won a $10,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for a choreographed duet. The CU College of Arts and Sciences matched the grant with another $10,000. With the funding, Wilkins and the CU dance division will collaborate with several presenter-partners, including Basin Arts and the Acadiana Center for the Arts in Louisiana and Keshet Center for the Arts in New Mexico.

Integrative physiology Professor Ken Wright is breaking new ground in the burgeoning field of sleep research, and bringing his students along for the ride, all of which has won him the Mary A. Carskadon Outstanding Educator Award.

Gordana Dukovic, a professor of chemistry who leads an interdisciplinary research group studying nanoscale materials in solar energy, is a finalist for one of the Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists.