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Amanda Giguere is the director of outreach for the Colorado Shakespeare Festival (CSF) and the founder of the Shakespeare and Violence Prevention Program. Since 2011, she and her colleagues and other community partners in the violence prevention field have adapted and staged Shakespeare’s plays to see how the content and approaches can reinforce violence-prevention skills in K-12 students.
Caroline Frischmon came to ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· to get out of the lab. After studying bioproducts engineering, interning with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and writing for a science communications lab, PhD candidate Frischmon sought to combine her
The University of Colorado Boulder strives for innovation, continually looking towards the future. But envisioning the future requires remembering the past. Colorado is home to numerous sites dedicated to scientific advancement—but what were the origins of these places, and what can they teach us about our path forward?
For the past six years, Sherri Tennant, Assistant Clinical Professor of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences (SLHS) at ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ·, and her team have worked in Denver with CCN students who experience economic disadvantages and use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) systems.
Amid rising political polarization, a team of ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· researchers partner with community organizations on Colorado’s Western Slope to examine how language, activism and civic engagement intersect in the fight against political extremism.
ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Ʒ’s Rural Technical Assistance program helps rural Colorado towns use their natural assets to strengthen local economies, deepen partnerships and define their own futures.
From an AI literacy platform to a community short film, 13 total projects received over $50,000 in funding.
At Chancellor Schwartz’s request, the Office for Public and Community-Engaged Scholarship and the Research and Innovation Office are co-leading ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Ʒ’s first application for the Carnegie Elective Classification for Community Engagement.
Since 2018, the Engaged Arts and Humanities Graduate Student Scholars program has given 40 students the opportunity and resources to apply tools of the arts and humanities to public and community-engaged scholarship projects.
The program is now welcoming new graduate students for the 2025-2027 cohort. ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· the program webpage.
The fellows consist of teams of K-12 art and STEM teachers and university scientists. Teachers will lead teams to develop data-driven art and science activities for K-12 classrooms and for the public in partnership with museums or libraries.