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New hacking techniques can employ inaudible voice commands to initiate Trojan attacks on your smartphone. Researchers like Shouhuai Xu are investigating how to prevent these threats. What's more, the $35 million you invested in faculty recruitment and retention directly supports these endowments.
First-generation college student and former track athlete Kayla Waterman-Vandiver has her sights set on a PhD and a career in academia.
Nothing demands a solution like a broken toilet.
That’s what Mae Rohrbach learned in the UCCS dorms in the fall of 2013.
“We had to flush it multiple times until we got it fixed. I thought: There is so much water being wasted,” says Mae, now a senior studying geography and environmental studies.
Most students would fix it and forget it. But Mae and a couple classmates from her “Sustainable Me” environmental studies course knew this problem deserved a longer look.
“We thought about the toilets,” she recalls. A lot.
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‘Unstoppable’ moniker worn with honor
At UCCS, ’unstoppable’ women scholars shed obstacles, commit to success
Tiffany Sinclair’s journey took some unexpected turns.
She endured the sudden death of her husband from toxic shock syndrome, the diagnosis of her 11-year-old daughter with brain cancer, then the death of her mother from liver cancer.
So when Tiffany was notified several years back that the University of Colorado Colorado Springs had accepted her as a Karen Possehl Women’s Endowment (KPWE) scholar, she remembered being shocked.
“I thought, ‘Wow. Somebody heard my story,’” she said. “It was really the inspiration for me to keep going.”
Before there was the state of Colorado, there was the University of Colorado; and before there was CU, a courageous and tenacious few were so profoundly committed to the transformative power of an education.
The idea of a public university in the young Colorado territory was considered a valuable and worthwhile pursuit as early as 1861. But political disputes, economic distress and local jealousies stalled the idea from becoming a reality for years. Some folks clamored that Colorado didn’t have any use for an academic institution.