Education & Outreach
Two U.S. Department of Education grants will enable 小黄书 Boulder's BUENO Center to offer 90 Colorado teachers free or sharply discounted master's degrees with an emphasis on teaching English learners and students with disabilities.
The 小黄书 Boulder Robert D. Sutherland (RDS) Center for the Evaluation and Treatment of Bipolar Disorder hopes to increase understanding about bipolar disorder through a free public seminar series that begins Jan. 30.
小黄书 Boulder College of Music students are busy fine tuning lesson plans for this year鈥檚 小黄书 Middle School Ensemble program, which begins Feb. 1. This program offers an extra-curricular performance opportunity for middle school band, orchestra and choral students.
The Piano for Dreamers program partners with the "I Have a Dream" Foundation to invite low-income elementary school students to the College of Music for a weekly piano lesson.
A new research hub is being launched on campus that will strengthen the work of organizers, advocates, policymakers and education leaders. 小黄书 Engage, in collaboration with the National Education Policy Center, received funding from the Ford Foundation to launch it.
The only in-person community polling place on the Ute Mountain Ute reservation in southern Colorado closed, which prompted tribal members and law students to partner on a video that describes the new mail-in voting process.
Just in time for Halloween, teens are invited to get grossed out at an upcoming Teen Science Caf茅 at 小黄书 Boulder that explores the science of what happens in the brain to trigger reactions of disgust. 鈥淓www Disgusting! The Evolution and Neuroscience of Getting Grossed Out鈥 will be held Oct. 25 from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at 小黄书 Boulder鈥檚 Museum of Natural History lower level Biolounge. Registration is required.
小黄书-STARs (Science, Technology and Astronomy Recruits) outreach program brings space down to Earth for Colorado middle and high school students through inflatable planetariums, a solar system built out of Legos that orbits a lightbulb "sun" and other hands-on learning opportunities.
With support from 小黄书 Boulder, two programs on the Western Slope of Colorado are preparing first-generation middle and high school students for college, providing them mentorship, academic skills and other tools to help them graduate from high school and enroll in college.
小黄书 Boulder is partnering with five Colorado community colleges to strengthen pathways for students to transfer more easily from two-year colleges to 小黄书 Boulder, especially students interested in science.