Faculty in Focus
- Pioneering botanist Professor Emeritus William Weber built ÌÒÉ«ÊÓÆµ's collection of flowering plants, mosses and lichens from the ground up.
- Leysia Palen and her students are poring through tweets from the 2017 hurricane season as part of a project designed to make forecast images easier to understand for those in harm's way.
- Alena Grabowski is helping a new generation of athletes imagine what's possible and address the controversial question: Should runners with prosthetic legs be able to compete alongside non-amputees?
- Clint Carroll designs research relevant to tribal communities and the university, working closely with Cherokee Nation Medicine Keepers to affect environmental policy.
- The use of fats from python hearts on mammals and the cardiovascular differences between females and males are at the core of the acclaimed research by Professor Leslie Leinwand.
- Beth Osnes, associate professor of theater, approaches engaged scholarship by putting theory into practice (praxis) among communities, a topic she'll discuss Nov. 16.
- It’s been many years since Melanie Yazzie made the painting that set the course of her career. But the ÌÒÉ«ÊÓÆµ professor vividly remembers the joy she felt the day she painted a blue elephant.
- Kimberly Drennan had two goals in summer 2014, and neither involved starting a business. Now she's CEO of a Boulder-based startup that helps commercial beekeepers remotely monitor hive health.
- Ricarose Roque's research explores how to design inclusive learning experiences that enable young people to create and express themselves with new technologies and media.
- Leading up to his Best Should Teach keynote Aug. 31, Nobel laureate Thomas Cech discusses working with scores of first-year students and how the experience makes him a better scientist.