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摘要改编自Sam Linnerooth的原始报道, Alaynah Penalosa, 朱莉娅·罗斯和安德鲁·索伦森.
Korey Wise Innocence项目获得5万美元赠款
的 韩国智慧纯真计划 (KWIP) 科罗拉多大学法学院 从弗雷德 & Jean Allegretti Foundation to better serve its growing team of legal fellows and law student volunteers.
KWIP evaluates innocence claims of people incarcerated in Colorado to see if there are factual or legal grounds to bring their cases back into court. 在最有希望的情况下, KWIP tries to develop new evidence of innocence and engages in litigation to overturn the conviction.
项目收到 国际社会的关注 在2019年Netflix纪录片发布之后 当他们看到博彩平台推荐, based on the wrongful convictions of Wise and four other Black and Latino teenagers who became known as the Central Park Five.
In 2015, 感谢科瑞·怀斯的礼物, the project was renamed in his honor and hired its first full-time staff member, 这个职位现在由KWIP主任担任 anne - marie莫耶斯.
博彩平台推荐英语教授因新项目获得10万美元资助
博彩平台推荐创意写作教授的作品 玛西娅·道格拉斯, also an author and performer, is infused with Jamaican and Caribbean experiences. Her next project, this year’s recipient of a $100,000 grant from the 创意资本大奖,也不例外。.
虽然出生在英国, Douglas grew up in Jamaica and spent eight years as an undocumented immigrant in the United States after coming here at the age of 19.
With experiences that span a large portion of the world and her particularly genre-bending style of writing, 道格拉斯计划调查加勒比海移民的账户 真正的历史:文献编纂小说与表演的结合.
Douglas sees her project as a story in which other immigrants might see themselves reflected. 道格拉斯说:“对话是改变的开始. “I would like to work on a project that opens up some useful conversation around immigration.”
科罗拉多大学法学教授帮助改变华盛顿的足球吉祥物
After five decades of protests, lawsuits and petitions, the NFL team in Washington, D.C.,将更改其名称和标志.
“We’ve waited a long time for this,” said Carla Fredericks, associate professor at the 科罗拉多大学法学院他是 美洲印第安人法律诊所 同时也是 世界各地的第一民族 (FPW), a program focused on social and environmental effects of development in Indigenous communities.
给团队施加压力, Fredericks and FPW organized a group representing more than $640 billion in investment to 给联邦快递、百事可乐和耐克写信 让他们和团队断绝关系.
News soon broke that FedEx—the team’s stadium sponsor—asked franchise management to change the team’s name. PepsiCo quickly followed suit, and Nike removed the team’s products from online stores.
Within weeks, the team announced it would discontinue its longstanding logo and name—a racial slur.
“Companies recognize that if they are not responsive to social pressure, 这对他们的生意非常不利,弗雷德里克斯说.
哈勃将镜头转向性别偏见
的 哈勃太空望远镜 (HST) team is discovering ways to combat gender bias, according to research from 铜博尔德的 利兹商学院.
HST时间分配委员会, aware that female scientists’ proposals for time on the HST were being rated significantly worse than male-led proposals, was seeking to level out the acceptance rate for proposed projects using the telescope.
斯蒂芬妮K. 约翰逊, associate professor of organizational leadership and information analytics, 与合著者Jessica F. Kirk of the University of Memphis to analyze 16 application cycles for time on HST.
的y discovered that stripping nearly all personal information from applications resulted in female lead scientists’ performing slightly better than men—reversing the historical overrepresentation of male-led projects.
“You’re making the fairest decision based on the science,” 约翰逊 said. “What this shows is that taking gender out of the equation does allow women to perform better.”
约翰逊 believes insights from the study could work for nearly any group looking to combat gender bias, 不仅仅是望远镜项目.
75 years after internment, librarians give voice to Japanese and Japanese American history
铜博尔德的 大学图书馆 archives offer a window into the lives of Japanese and Japanese Americans on campus around World War II and Japanese incarceration in the United States.
Collections from this era are fairly comprehensive, but gaps remain. 的 CU Japanese and Japanese American Community History Project is changing that.
得到了 科罗拉多大学博尔德外展奖 还有社区资源, 亚当里斯本,日本和韩国研究馆员,和 梅根·弗里德他于2019年开始了这个项目.
为纪念富兰克林·D·罗斯福总统诞辰75周年. Roosevelt’s suspension of Japanese incarceration in the United States, 他们在进行采访, 数字化记录和收集新的档案材料.
“We’re using that as a jumping-off point for talking about and collecting information about Japanese and Japanese American history on campus,弗里德尔说. “Not just during World War II, but from the first Japanese American student to the present day.”