CU Science Discovery offers a variety of opportunities for CU Boulder faculty to share their STEM research with broad public audiences, while fulfilling NSF and other Federal grant Broader Impacts requirements. Faculty partners connect their scientific work to Science Discovery鈥檚 outreach efforts in a variety of ways.

Examples of Broader Impacts activities:聽

  • Contributing content and expertise to Science Discovery classes, camps or outreach programs for K-12 students
  • Mentoring high school student researchers
  • Providing visiting K-12 students聽a window into your research聽while on campus or at a local field site
  • Providing hands-on teacher training and follow-up support through school and teacher programs
  • Involving graduate students and post-docs in outreach programs
  • Contributing scientific expertise, resources and equipment
  • Ensuring scientific accuracy of education materials
  • Developing hands-on demonstrations related to your research through Science Discovery鈥檚聽Portal to the Public聽(PoP) program

Successfully funded Broader Impacts聽collaborations:

  • Aerospace Engineering Sciences (NASA SUITS Team)
  • Aerospace Engineering Sciences聽(Tomoko Matsuo)聽
  • Applied Mathematics (Nancy Rodriguez, NSF CAREER)
  • Boulder Creek Critical Zone Observatory (Suzanne Anderson)
  • Chemical and Biological Engineering (C. Wyatt Shields, NSF CAREER)
  • Computer Science (Ash Utosh Trivedi, NSF CAREER)
  • Computer Science (ChenHao Tan)
  • Computer Science (Tom Yeh)
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (Scott Taylor)聽
  • Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering (Emiliano聽Dal'Anese, NSF CAREER)
  • Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering (Juliet Gopinath, NSF CAREER)
  • Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering (Xudong Chen, NSF CAREER)
  • Environmental Studies (Daniel Doak and Megan Peterson)聽
  • Geography (Katherine Lininger)
  • INSTAAR (Sarah Crump聽and Julio Sepulveda)
  • Mathematics (Sean O'Rourke, NSF CAREER)
  • Mechanical Engineering (Daniel Knight, Shelly Miller and聽Shivakant Mishra)
  • Mechanical and Environmental Engineering (Marina Vance, NSF CAREER)
  • McMurdo-Dry Valleys LTER (Michael Gooseff)
  • Niwot Ridge LTER (Kathrine聽Suding)
  • Soft Materials Research Center (Noel Clark)聽
  • STROBE (Margaret Murnane)

Interested in bringing your science to K-12 students, teachers and the community? Contact Alexandra Rose聽via聽email.