Faculty in Focus
- The director of CU Âé¶¹Ó°Ôº's Natural Hazards Center speaks from personal experience as an evacuee of the Calwood Fire when she warns others:Â "the time is now to make provisions for whatever risks you may face."
- In a new book, CU Âé¶¹Ó°Ôº's Anand Sokhey details his research on whether yard signs work, what they say about us and how they shape our neighborhoods.
- A new book from Associate Professor Nicole Mansfield Wright explores the impact of literature about privilege and victimhood on our era.
- New faculty members, many of whom recently attended a Faculty Affairs orientation, bring to CU Âé¶¹Ó°Ôº expertise in everything from bioinspired robotics and indigenous religious traditions to Vikings and the dynamics of climate variability and change.
- The pandemic upended schools in the spring of 2020, sending students and faculty home. With an NSF RAPID grant, JILA Fellow Heather Lewandowski asked instructors what worked—and what didn't—as they moved their lab courses online.
- After working remotely, engineering researchers are gradually and safely returning to campus to continue their work in the lab. Assistant Professor Kaushik Jayaram shares his experience.
- Carla Fredericks, an associate professor of law, helped organize a campaign that changed the NFL.
- After working remotely, engineering researchers are gradually and safely returning to campus to continue their work in the lab. Assistant Professor Nicole Labbe shares about her return to research.
- After months of remote work due to COVID-19, Chris Heckman and some of his team are headed back to the lab for testing and experimentation.
- Also known as Freedom Day, Jubilee Day and Liberation Day, Juneteenth celebrates the day when Union Army General Gordon Granger read aloud the Emancipation Proclamation in Galveston, Texas––supposedly the last place in the U.S. to hear of its passage. Learn more from Associate Professor Hillary Potter.