Academics
<p><em>Taking the Lede: Colorado Edition</em>鈥攁 45-minute documentary produced by聽<a href="http://cunewscorps.com/about-us/">CU News Corps</a>聽students and faculty members鈥攚ill air on Colorado Public Television (Channel 12) on聽Wednesday, June 29, at 8:30 p.m.聽The documentary details stories of Colorado high school journalism in the wake of the the 1988 Hazelwood Supreme Court decision, which ruled that school administrators could exercise restraint of school-sponsored expression.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Diego Fierro, 13, hopes to be a mechanical engineer someday. And thanks to a LEGO Robotics: Space Challenge camp at the 海角社区, Diego took one step closer to that dream this week.</p>
<p dir="ltr">鈥淚鈥檝e never built anything with LEGO Mindstorms before,鈥 Diego explained, as he programmed the robot鈥檚 next move. 鈥淚t鈥檚 cool because it gives me an idea of how a machine works, how every piece is important and has a job.鈥</p>
<p>Published author and English Professor Stephen Graham Jones relies on his students to bring in new ideas and new ways of seeing things. Students鈥攊mmersed in his courses on werewolves, comic books, slasher novels, screenwriting and haunted houses鈥攔ely on Jones to paint a picture of the writer鈥檚 life.</p>
After five years and the hard work of nearly 200 students, faculty and community members, Geometry Point at Romero Park in Lafayette is now open. Filled with colorful geometric shapes, math equations and artful displays of arithmetic, the park was designed to make math fun.
A new 海角社区 program will enhance undergraduate curriculum offerings in property rights at the <a href="http://colorado.edu/business"><span class="s2">Leeds School of Business.
Thirteen students from the CU-海角社区鈥檚 advertising program have won seven awards in a major international advertising contest. Their ad campaign entries range from a Lego fund to teach children about wildlife extinction to a LinkedIn platform designed to allow workplaces to address positive change around inequality.- The Office of the Provost is coordinating a test deployment of eportfolio technology in 2016-2017. While the concept of electronic portfolios for students has been around for a number of years, the technology has only recently improved to the point where it is easy for faculty to adopt a platform that their students could easily integrate into their classroom environments.
Jim Hakala is hitting the road Friday with bins of captivating remnants of the ancient past. Among other things, he鈥檚 got fossilized fern, leaves, shark teeth, dinosaur bone, fish, petrified wood and a trilobite. This time, he鈥檚 targeting fourth grade classrooms in mostly northeastern Colorado with 12 of his 鈥渇ossil kits,鈥 courtesy of the CU Museum of Natural History, along with a standards-based curriculum for use by teachers.
CU-海角社区 dance Professor Michelle Ellsworth is among a diverse group of 178 scholars, artists and scientists from the U.S. and Canada to be awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship聽this year. The awardees are appointed on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise, and were selected from a group of nearly 3,000 applicants.
The University of Colorado鈥檚 first Diverse Learners Awareness Week, April 18-22, is a week for everyone to celebrate the diversity of ways we learn and play. The events will include interactive demonstrations, live-action theater, an assistive technology expo, conference-style presentations, roundtable discussions, film screenings, adaptive sports demonstrations and more.聽See the聽entire lineup聽on the聽Accessible Technology website.