CSTPR Welcomes Max Boykoff as Director

The CIRES Center for Science and Technology Policy Research (CSTPR) is pleased to announce Max Boykoff as its new Director. Professor Roger Pielke, Jr., who served as the Center's founding director from 2001-2007, and again as director from 2013 until he completed his term in January, has gone on to spearhead creation of the CU Sports Governance Center within the CU Athletic Department. Boykoff's research focuses on the cultural politics of climate change and the transformation of carbon-based economies. Read more ...

AAAS Case Workshop Winners Sarah Welsh-Huggins and Angela Boag speak with Senator Cory Gardner.

For the third year CSTPR organized a campus-wide competition to select two students to attend the AAAS “Catalyzing Advocacy in Science and Engineering” Workshop in Washington, D.C. Winners of the 2016 AAAS CASE workshop competition reported on their experiences at the 2016 workshop:

"Our time in D.C. was well-organized, thought-provoking, and for this future science policy-maker, a lot of fun. In three jam-packed days, we were introduced to the worlds of science for policy and policy for science, and what it means to be an effective leader in each. What do NASA and the FBI have in common? Their funding comes from the same congressional appropriations committee. What, then, is an appropriations bill? How does that differ from an allocation bill?" Read more ...

Rad Byerly passed away on January 26, 2016. Rad had worked with the Center since its founding in 2001 as a researcher and advisor, and played an important role in the Center's development. His career is described in the obituary that appeared in the Daily Camera, reproduced below.

Radford Byerly, Jr., died yesterday after a long fight with Parkinson’s disease. He was 79. Read more ...