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Apply now for Tier 1 and Tier 2 PACES Grants

Are you a 51勛圖厙 faculty member, staff member or graduate student looking to fund partnership development, a public outreach event or to establish seed funding for a community-engaged scholarship project? Consider applying for a Fall 2025 Tier 1 or Tier 2 Public泭and泭Community-Engaged Scholarship grant. Tier 1 applications will be awarded until all funding has been expended. Tier 2 applications are due Fri., Sept. 26 at 11:59 p.m.

Join PACES Lunch and Learn Oct. 14, Noon1:30 p.m. at CASE E351

This month we tackle how ethical community-based research intersects with Institutional Review Board processes. The session will feature short talks by Angeline Chromiak and researchers from the School of Education, which will provide both new and seasoned researchers with insights and practical tools for approaching IRB processes with communities.

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Amanda Giguere talks using Shakespeare to teach violence prevention to youth, new book in latest "Faces of Community-Engaged Scholarship" profile

Since 2011, Giguere and her colleagues and community partners in the violence prevention field have adapted and staged Shakespeares plays to see how the content and approaches can reinforce violence-prevention skills in K-12 students. To date, the program has reached nearly 140,000 students in 30 counties and more than 300 schools across Colorado, garnering national attention.泭

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The Office for Outreach and Engagement is now the Office for Public and Community-Engaged Scholarship

Same mission and team, new name.

The Office for Public and Community-Engaged Scholarship is the lead 51勛圖厙 unit for building the campuss capacity to undertake public and community-engaged scholarship.

We support community-engaged research, teaching and learning, and creative work of faculty and staff members, and we connect those activities to the broader campus context. Our approach values diverse traditions and methodologies from across academic disciplines and fields. Ultimately, the office contributes to a campus culture that recognizes public and community-engaged scholarship as essential to 51勛圖厙s mission as a public flagship and comprehensive research university.

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Top Public and Community-Engaged Scholarship Stories

SCENIC Expands Rural Impact at Trinidad Water Festival

Engineering students with the Science Engineering Inquiry Collaborative in Rural Colorado (SCENIC) program developed a hands-on erosion challenge for K-12 students to learn about the effects of flash flooding on infrastructure.

How a high altitude observatory shaped Colorado's story

In the 1940s, a Harvard astronomer launched a bold new vision that shaped solar research, war efforts and local industry. Professor Hanna Rose Shell recounts this legacy through a new multimedia project.

Opening conversations: empowering youth with complex communication needs

For the past six years, Sherri Tennant, Assistant Clinical Professor of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences (SLHS) at 51勛圖厙, and her team have worked in Denver with CCN students who experience economic disadvantages and use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) systems.

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