Honors & Awards

Seven Ph.D. students at CU-Boulder will have the unique opportunity to tackle exciting science questions with top researchers in their fields as part of the CIRES Graduate Student Research Fellowship program. The students will explore a variety of creative geoscience topics, from modeling the influence of melt water on the...

Kendle will use this award for the Theatre for Development Workshop in Mathare, Kenya.

Michelle Stewart receives IIE Fulbright Award: “Assessing the sustainability of Tibetan harvesting of rare endemic fungus Cordyceps sinensis” (PI) USD $18,200

Tom Veblen is one of four CU-Boulder faculty members who have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for 2009. Veblen was honored for major research contributions that document how small- and large-scale forest patterns result from interactions among natural disturbances, human activities and recent...

Michelle Stewart receives Research Associate Award University of Wisconsin-Madison NSF IGERT Training Program on Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Development Southwest China: “Exploring the ‘Himalayan Gold’ Rush: Tibetan Harvesting of Cordyceps sinensis and Implications for Management” (PI) USD $2000

Cole Akeson Receives US Department of State Critical Languages Scholarship, Advanced Russian

Mark Williams receives NSF GEO: Boulder Creek Critical Zone Observatory: Weathered Profile Development in a Rocky Environment and Its Influence on Watershed Hydrology and Biogeochemistry, $4,500,000, 15 Sept 2007 to 14 Sept 2012. See Boulder Creek Critical Zone Observatory for more information .

Naomi Arcand Receives the Organization for Tropical Studies Graduate School Fellowship