From leadership in high-tech fields to owning successful small businesses, the College of Media, Communication and Information's newest professors are poised to create incredible impacts.
Professor Martha Palmer shares her 50-year journey through the field of natural language understanding, her current research and her thoughts on new generative artificial intelligence tools.
Associate Professor of Composition Jeffrey Nytch—who directs the College of Music’s Entrepreneurship Center for Music and who was recently awarded a MacDowell Fellowship—considers the application of entrepreneurial principles as essential to his creative practice.
Ƶ Boulder has presented Hanspeter Schaub with the 2023 Hazel Barnes Prize, the university’s largest and most prestigious single faculty award. The honor recognizes outstanding teachers who also have distinguished records in research and scholarship.
Professor Andrew Schwartz of Colorado Law discusses his new book, investment crowdfunding and the culmination of a decade’s worth of research in this field.
Professor Shelly Miller is a problem-solver and an air pollution engineer. She finds reward and value when solving issues with immediate benefits, such as improved public health. Doing her work through a community partnership model is a match made in heaven.
While it’s popular, June Gruber’s teaching, which recently won a Cogswell Award for Inspirational Instruction, doesn’t show students the path to unmitigated joy; on the contrary, the science of emotional wellness is more nuanced.
Professor David Drake, a Frascona winner, leans on his industry experience to find effective ways to connect with students who take different paths to the Leeds School’s MBA classes.
Ƶ Boulder's growing faculty expertise in soft materials was a huge draw for Assistant Professor Kōnane Bay. A Native Hawaiian, Bay's research is inspired by the innate sustainability of the huli kalo—a traditional Hawaiian food staple—to develop sustainable polymeric materials.
From developing vaccines to breaking down mixed-plastic waste streams into valuable chemicals, Assistant Professor Kayla Sprenger's highly interdisciplinary work is focused at the crossroads of physics, engineering and immunology, and done in close synergy with experimentalists and clinicians.