Features
- Receiving bystander CPR can double or triple a victim’s chance of survival, according to the American Heart Association. But if you’re the victim, you have a better chance of receiving CPR from a bystander in Denver’s Capitol Hill neighborhood than in Five Points. New CU research aims to put resources in the neighborhoods that need it most.
- Millions of acres of piñon-juniper woodlands have been subjected to numerous land-management techniques since 1950. The long-term consequences of those actions are still poorly understood, but Miranda Redmond, a CU-Boulder doctoral student has been working hard to change that.
- U.S.-Mexico border manifests from the 1920s indicate that Mexicans migrating to the United States then tended to be healthier, wealthier and more productive than those who did not migrate, according to CU-Boulder researchers. Their results suggests that U.S. migration policy in the early 1900s created an environment that drew “economically strong” Mexicans to migrate to the United States, and they say the findings have implications for contemporary policy.
- Alexis Templeton, associate professor of geological sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder, leads a team of scientists who recently landed a $7 million, five-year grant from NASA to study “rock-powered life.”
- CU-Boulder researchers demonstrated that early identification and treatment were key to helping children remain in the normal cognitive range and helped launch nationwide adoption of universal newborn screening.
- English prof known for massive open online course on comic books and graphic novels tapped to help university navigate uncertain waters.
- The Old Main Cottonwood is indeed getting new life. In October, cuttings were taken from the canopy of the tree by Facilities Management arborists Aquino and Joel Serafin.
- Unbiased expert opinion is accepted or rejected depending on reader’s views, CU researchers find.
- Graduate students at the University of Colorado Boulder have launched a program designed to promote inclusion among under-represented groups in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics—or STEM—majors.
- At Gordion, one of the most important archaeological sites in the Near East, remains of antiquity’s dead breathe more life into professor’s scholarship and classrooms.