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The CU Faculty Council’s Committee on Racial and Ethnic Equity (CREE) has teamed with colleagues from areas of the University of Colorado system to produce a video message in support of the campus community during the pandemic. Faculty from across the four CU campuses also speak out against racism and...

Eight CU Boulder students and recent alumni have been named Fulbright finalists for the 2020–21 academic year by the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. The finalists and their host countries, where they will study or teach during the coming academic year, are Rayna...

Benjamin R. Teitelbaum is a professor of ethnomusicology and international affairs at the University of Colorado Boulder, and is an award-winning expert on the radical right. He latest book, War for Eternity: Inside Bannon's Far-Right Circle of Global Power Brokers , is now available on Amazon ( click here )...

CU Boulder International Affairs and Political Science faculty, Gregory Young, was recently interviewed by NBC's 9 News to provide expertise on the future of Syria and ISIS now that Abu Bakr al Baghdadi is confirmed deceased. In the interview, Young weighed in on how despite the leader being dead, the...

James Souza (IAFS ’10) always had an interest in the Middle East, but it was his close friends in the Smith Hall International Program (SHIP) that encouraged him to switch from Chinese to Arabic studies. SHIP is the precursor of what is now known as the Global Studies Residential Academic...

CU Education Abroad Student of the Year, Natalie Hagewood (IAFS ’19), spent her Spring 2018 semester in Rabat, Morocco on the CIEE Language & Culture program . Hagewood was awarded a Rotary Scholarship for her language study in Morocco and while there, she worked diligently to improve her Arabic not...

CU Model United Nations (Model UN) club attends national conferences every year to debate topics such as climate change, foreign relations, and economic reform, however, the true grit of the club can be found in meetings on campus. “In our weekly meetings we discuss issues in today’s headlines and I...

On March 22, 2017, a terror attack occurred at the Palace of Westminster in London, England. For Global Grant recipient Fallon Porter (IAFS, CMCI ’18), this felt too close to home—she was sitting at a desk, less than three miles from the palace. For her spring 2017 semester, Fallon took...

Source: The Atlantic, Sept 12, 2018 Written by Benjamin R. Teitelbaum Assistant Professor of International Affairs and Ethnomusicology, CU Boulder The Sweden Democrats party leader, Jimmie Åkesson TT NEWS AGENCY / REUTERS Never mind the headlines: Sunday’s election in Sweden was a major setback for the far right. The populist-nationalist...

Maya Friedli-Schroeder Jordan Thomas Congratulations to Maya Friedli-Schroeder and Jordan Thomas for being recipients of the Fulbright Scholarship for AY 2018-2019 . Ten CU Boulder students and alumni have been honored with prestigious awards to study and conduct research in locations around the globe. Eight CU students have been offered...