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From learning how to best address COVID-19 to tackling the ever-expanding effects of our changing climate, ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder faculty, staff and students will always be found at the leading edge of the issues that matter most. Enjoy these stories of resilience, collaboration and impact.

Several new faculty hires in ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Engineering have a deep interest in bio-inspired engineering. While they are all looking at different forms, functions and problems, their shared interests in the natural world could drive exciting new interdisciplinary projects and research areas.

What distinguishes ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ’s College of Music from other music schools? Ingrid Anderson, president of the College of Music Student Government, says a welcoming community and the support of non-traditional music careers set the college apart.

A Fort Lewis College senior spent the summer working in the College of Engineering and Applied Science at ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder, helping to determine the amount of bacteria in the Animas River for an Environmental Protection Agency project.

Reiland Rabaka discusses what it means for the Center for African and African American Studies to be established, what he envisions it becoming, and how students, faculty and the community will benefit from it now and for years to come.

The Righteous Rage Institute for healing, social justice and community organizing works with the community and educational partners with a healing justice approach.

¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder has announced a new partnership with Colorado Outward Bound School to provide a four-credit upper-division leadership course through the campus’s newly expanded Center for Leadership.

Wanting to better understand the contentious and complicated issues surrounding fracking in Colorado, two graduate students have collaborated to present their yearlong research in a visual exhibit.

With millions of students returning in the fall, college and university administrators across the country faced an unprecedented challenge this summer: Devise a plan for controlling an airborne virus, easily spread by people with no symptoms, in an environment where thousands of socially active young adults live in close quarters.

In the midst of a global pandemic, researchers and engineers have found partnerships in unexpected places.