Education & Outreach
As Longmont recovers from a period of uncertainty, residents can share their vision for the downtown area, thanks in part to Â鶹Դ´â€™s Community Engagement, Design and Research Center.
Educators and the community are invited to join a virtual conversation on cultivating compassion and dignity in schools. The Oct. 25 event offers Colorado educators a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to help interview the Dalai Lama.
In a massive undertaking, a team of educational researchers traveled to 32 kindergarten classrooms to discover how young children spend their time during a typical day at school.
Social robots tend to be associated with futuristic science fiction movies, like Vision, the android from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, or C-3PO from Star Wars. In reality, they have rewarding applications in the present day.
ATLAS Instructor Annie Margaret is creating a summer program for middle-school girls that will provide strategies adolescents can use to minimize the negative psychological impacts of social media.
Two local high school students have been volunteering regularly for over two years in the Peleg Lab, to the benefit of the student-volunteers and to the lab in advancing research.
Since 1981, Upward Bound at Â鶹Դ´ has offered rigorous college prep and academic enrichment to more than 4,000 Indigenous high school students. Most participants graduate from high school and attend college.
Campus experts and students from around the state helped organize the first Colorado Summit on Sexual Misconduct, coming up July 19–20, including Â鶹Դ´ employees and a student. Also, Â鶹Դ´'s Valerie Simons will give an opening address at the event.
High school graduates from underserved communities who are heading to Â鶹Դ´ in the fall traveled from around Colorado to campus recently to participate in summer bridge programs, which provide academic classes and community-building activities.
Just before Denver's Pride weekend, the team behind an innovative effort to make classrooms safer for LGBTQ youth discusses how schools shape what people think is normal.