Faculty-Staff Edition - Oct. 8, 2020
Through the fall semester, campus officials are providing weekly updates, including stats and items of note. In this issue: a return to in-person and hybrid classes; new public health orders; a change to the hours at one testing site; and more.
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Former ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ postdoc Jennifer Doudna smashes glass ceiling with historic Nobel win
Thirty years after beginning her training as a postdoctoral scholar in the ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ lab of Nobel laureate Thomas Cech, biochemist Jennifer Doudna won her own Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the co-development of the revolutionary genome-editing tool CRISPR-Cas9.
Elena Aranda wins Polly Baca Raices Fuertes Community Leader Award
Congressman Joe Neguse has announced Elena Aranda as the winner of the 2020 Polly Baca Raices Fuertes Community Leader Award. Aranda is a professional research assistant at CU's Renée Crown Wellness Institute.
Newest endowed chair supports research excellence in education, neuroscience and more
ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ’s newest endowed professorial chair—the Sapp Family Endowed Chancellor’s Chair for Research Excellence—is the first of its kind. This $2.5 million fund allows the chancellor to support top-tier faculty in social science, education, neuropsychology and psychology.
ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ awarded $613.9 million for high-impact research in 2020
ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ research attracted $613.9 million in funding in fiscal year 2020 for groundbreaking studies that, among other things, crack the code of the teenage brain, advance electric transportation and aim to understand how odors guide behavior.
4 ways to be a better LGBTQ+ ally
Do you consider yourself to be an LGBTQ+ ally? Check out these tips to learn how you can better support your friends, family members, colleagues and community members.
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