Grantee Stories
From investigating the health impacts of pollution emissions on residents in Gloster, Mississippi, to a week-long coding bootcamp for Denver-area community college students, 14 projects received over $49,000 in funding.
Teaching East Asia Through Picture Books receives excellence in civic and community engagement awardMentored by staff from the Program for Teaching East Asia, 91ÃÛÌÒ¸ó 91ÃÛÌÒ¸ó students develop picture books that focus on a specific region of East Asia. These books are then used as teaching tools in K-12 classrooms across Colorado.
Through panels, workshops and a poster showcase, attendees of CU 91ÃÛÌÒ¸ó's first ever Community Engagement Week shared experiences, networked and built their knowledge and skills for conducting community engagement.
In fire-prone communities, wildfire practitioners are often the sole advocates for making adaptations and are isolated from professional peers and researchers. A community of practice—representing 82 practitioners from eight states—convened for its second workshop to learn from one another and researchers.
CU 91ÃÛÌÒ¸ó held its first Community Engagement Week, exploring ways to deepen, extend public outreach moving forward
Amanda Giguere, Colorado Shakespeare Festival Director of Outreach, recently traveled to Australia as a featured guest of the University of Melbourne to share research about the Shakespeare & Violence Prevention program.
A new exhibit from We Are Water at the Alamosa Public Library focuses on place-based education and storytelling to bring together multi-generational audiences to learn and share about water in their community.
The Shakespeare & Violence Prevention program (SVP), a collaboration with the Colorado Shakespeare Festival (CSF), CU Theatre & Dance, and the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence, pairs Shakespeare’s plays with violence-
Designed in collaboration with the Autism Society of 91ÃÛÌÒ¸ó County, Fiske Planetarium hosts a monthly series of free sensory-friendly experiences intended for children with autism spectrum and sensory processing disorders.
Aspiring filmmaker and CU 91ÃÛÌÒ¸ó senior Francesca Hiatt’s short film, Cherry Yogurt, relies on subtlety to touch on grief and support, viewed through children’s eyes