Academics
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- Ƶ Boulder is offering a newly structured program for undergraduates interested in getting a bachelor’s and master’s degree in an accelerated amount of time.
- The second annual Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition was held at the Graduate School in February. Using only one slide, competitors were challenged to describe their research in three minutes to a panel of judges and an audience from the community.
- Finishing up papers, projects and exams can feel overwhelming as the spring semester nears its end. Fortunately, the campus libraries have resources and services that can help.
- The newly created Program in Exploratory Studies is an open option for students who are exploring possible courses of study across campus versus in a particular college or school.
- The Office of Undergraduate Education is encouraging instructor-level and tenured/tenure-track faculty from all colleges and departments to participate in the 2020–21 First-Year Seminar program.
- The annual Boulder Faculty Assembly awards ceremony recently took place, recognizing recipients for outstanding work in advancing the mission of the university and the academy at large.
- A partnership will launch the world’s first globally scalable Massive Open Online Course-based electrical engineering master’s degree, and in addition, is exploring an interdisciplinary master’s in data science.
- Provost Moore intends to form working groups to examine the structural, budgetary and governance issues needed to implement the major recommendations of a report by the Provost’s Committee on Academic Reorganization.
- Now in its fifth year, Education Abroad’s Global Opportunity, or “GO” Scholars, program has awarded more than 100 scholarships to underrepresented first-year students from low socio-economic backgrounds.