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In the spring ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder will become only the fourth higher education institute in the nation to offer an Arctic studies program, providing students with expertise on a long-neglected region gaining geopolitical importance due to climate change and its impacts.

Three ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder professors have won prestigious fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies. Gerardo Gutierrez, Rebecca Maloy and Mithi Mukherjee are among 69 fellows chosen from 1,100 applicants.

Engineering senior Matthew Hurst has been awarded the prestigious Marshall Scholarship, a full-ride scholarship to study in the United Kingdom for two years. A lifelong mathematician with a dream of being an astronaut someday, Hurst is developing computer models that could someday help engineers design aircraft and spacecraft more efficiently.

Two new undergraduate degrees are coming online in the fall, one designed to address teacher shortages particularly among high-needs communities, the other intended to turn out skilled, ethical leaders who can bridge differences and contribute to public work, be it in higher education, international development, urban planning or other areas.

Zoe Donaldson consults for the Science and Entertainment Exchange, a non-profit program that links filmmakers with scientists across the U.S.

¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder enrolled more international students during the 2015-16 academic year and sent more students abroad during the 2014-15 academic year than any other higher education institution in Colorado, according to data released in the national Open Doors Report.

For excellence in education and research — studying everything from flower pigmentation that can have nutritional value in fruits and vegetables, to how processes at the polar regions affect the world's climate — six of ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder's own have received National Science Foundation awards.

¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder law students and faculty work with schools across Colorado to share the Constitution and cultivate conversations with the generations that will one day lead our nation.

Last month, we shared with you that the university is at the beginning of a faculty- and student-driven initiative to evaluate D2L and other learning management systems (LMS). We will be soliciting feedback via several mechanisms, the first of which is an upcoming survey that will be sent to all faculty and graduate teaching assistants next week.

Masters of the Environment is an innovative new graduate degree that adds advanced studies in environmental sciences, building on students' professional experience from other fields. The program features a yearlong capstone, or environmental work experience, highly valued by employers.