CU-Boulder Academic and Research Achievements
CU-Boulder is the only research institution in the world to have designed and
built space instruments for NASA that have been launched to every planet in the solar system.
Four faculty have been named Nobel laureates, including three since 2001.
Eight CU-Boulder professors have been awarded prestigious
Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowships since 2000, including
professors Paul Kroll of East Asian languages and civilizations and MarkWiney
of molecular, cellular, and developmental biology in 2007. Fellows are chosen
for past achievements and exceptional promise for future accomplishments.
Four faculty have been named investigators by the Howard Hughes
Medical Institute: Thomas Cech and Natalie Ahn of chemistry and biochemistry,
Kristi Anseth of chemical and biological engineering, and Min Han of molecular,
cellular, and developmental biology.
Ninety-eight CU-Boulder faculty have been named Fulbright scholars
since 1982, including four in 2008–09: Len Ackland of journalism, Herbert
Covert of anthropology and the University Museum, Elizabeth Dunn of geography
and international affairs, and John Kineman of the Cooperative Institute for
Research in Environmental Sciences.
Ten CU-Boulder professors have received prestigious Packard
Fellowships. The unrestricted grants, worth $625,000 each in 2007, go to young
faculty who are among “the most promising science and engineering researchers at
universities in the United States.”
Several CU-Boulder research faculty from the National Snow and Ice Data Center
shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with former Vice President Al Gore for their
contributions to the international report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change. The CU-Boulder researchers, including Tingjun Zhang who was “chapter
leader” for a section of the report on permafrost, joined co-authors from around the
world on the groundbreaking report.
Ten CU-Boulder professors have been honored with fellowships from the
National Endowment for the Humanities since 2000.
Four CU-Boulder professors have been awarded the National Medal of
Science, the nation’s highest scientific honor. Distinguished Professor Marvin
Caruthers of the chemistry and biochemistry department won the award in 2006.
The late Professor GilbertWhite of geography won in 2000; Nobel laureate and
Distinguished Professor of chemistry Thomas Cech won in 1995; and the late
Professor Keith Porter of molecular, cellular, and developmental biology won in
1976.
Two faculty have won the National Science Foundation Director’s Award
for Distinguished Teaching Scholars, the foundation’s “highest honor for excellence
in both teaching and research”: Richard McCray of astrophysical and planetary
sciences (2002) and CarlWieman of physics (2001).
Seven faculty have received MacArthur Fellowships, known as the
“genius grant”: Deborah Jin of JILA and physics (2003); Daniel Jurafsky of linguistics
(2002); Norman Pace of molecular, cellular, and developmental biology
(2001); Margaret Murnane of physics (2000); Patricia Limerick of history (1995);
Charles Archambeau of physics (1988); and the late David Hawkins of philosophy
(1981).
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