Education & Outreach
The Ƶ Boulder Robert D. Sutherland (RDS) Center for the Evaluation and Treatment of Bipolar Disorder hopes to increase understanding about bipolar disorder through a free public seminar series that begins Jan. 30.
Ƶ Boulder College of Music students are busy fine tuning lesson plans for this year’s Ƶ Middle School Ensemble program, which begins Feb. 1. This program offers an extra-curricular performance opportunity for middle school band, orchestra and choral students.
The Piano for Dreamers program partners with the "I Have a Dream" Foundation to invite low-income elementary school students to the College of Music for a weekly piano lesson.
A new research hub is being launched on campus that will strengthen the work of organizers, advocates, policymakers and education leaders. Ƶ Engage, in collaboration with the National Education Policy Center, received funding from the Ford Foundation to launch it.
The only in-person community polling place on the Ute Mountain Ute reservation in southern Colorado closed, which prompted tribal members and law students to partner on a video that describes the new mail-in voting process.
Just in time for Halloween, teens are invited to get grossed out at an upcoming Teen Science Café at Ƶ Boulder that explores the science of what happens in the brain to trigger reactions of disgust. “Ewww Disgusting! The Evolution and Neuroscience of Getting Grossed Out” will be held Oct. 25 from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at Ƶ Boulder’s Museum of Natural History lower level Biolounge. Registration is required.
Ƶ-STARs (Science, Technology and Astronomy Recruits) outreach program brings space down to Earth for Colorado middle and high school students through inflatable planetariums, a solar system built out of Legos that orbits a lightbulb "sun" and other hands-on learning opportunities.
With support from Ƶ Boulder, two programs on the Western Slope of Colorado are preparing first-generation middle and high school students for college, providing them mentorship, academic skills and other tools to help them graduate from high school and enroll in college.
Ƶ Boulder is partnering with five Colorado community colleges to strengthen pathways for students to transfer more easily from two-year colleges to Ƶ Boulder, especially students interested in science.
The Colorado Shakespeare Festival is taking its all-female, bilingual tour of "The Taming of the Shrew" to Colorado schools. "The Taming of the Shrew" is the latest title in CSF’s Shakespeare & Violence Prevention series, which combines live performance and classroom workshops to empower students to become “upstanders” vs. “bystanders” when they see bullying happen around them.