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Waleed Abdalati presenting Ted Talk with overlaid photos of him talking to Dan Rather, presenting on stage for a seminar, and speaking at the White House

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Abigail Peters Invited to Join Phi Beta Kappa

Nov. 17, 2014

Phi Beta Kappa is the oldest academic honor society, with chapters at 280 universities and colleges in America. Founded in 1776, PBK boasts over half a million current members and a strong alumni association. Congratulations to Abigail Peters who was invited to join Alpha Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa for Fall 2014.

CU ranks number 2 in Geosciences, including climatology and all other aspects of physical geography

Nov. 16, 2014

University of Colorado Boulder is ranked #2 among the top universities for Geosciences. US News and World Report

Ian Rowen writes commentary for the Guardian

Nov. 12, 2014

Read Ian Rowen's commentary "Hong Kong Umbrella protests are here to stay"

Ian Rowen writes article for Thinking Taiwan

Nov. 12, 2014

Ian Rowen's article is titled "In Search of Sunflower Seeds in Hong Kong"

Study ties conflict risk in sub-Saharan Africa to climate change, socioeconomics, geography

Nov. 10, 2014

A massive new University of Colorado Boulder study indicates there is a statistical link between hotter temperatures generated by climate change and the risk of armed conflicts in sub-Saharan Africa. CU-Boulder Professor John O鈥橪oughlin led a research team that assessed more than 78,000 armed conflicts between 1980 and 2012 in...

Xiwei Guo Receives OIE Global Citizen Award

Nov. 4, 2014

The Office of International Education announced that Geography undergraduate, Xiwei Guo, was selected for the Muneeb Kamal International Student of the Year 2014 award. This award is in recognition of Xiwei's outstanding contributions to promote international understanding. Congratulations Xiwei.

NASA Research Opportunities for Space and Earth Sciences (ROSES) Grant Received

Oct. 20, 2014

Ph.D. candidate Mike MacFerrin, along with his adviser Dr. Waleed Abdalati and collaborators at the University of Washington, received notice of a NASA award for MacFerrin's proposal "Quantifying Firn Compaction and its Implications for Altimetry-based Mass Balance Estimates of the Greenland Ice Sheet." The project (3-years, $733,000) will complete MacFerrin's...

Joel Correia Awarded Fulbright-Hays Fellowship

Oct. 16, 2014

The Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship will support Joel's dissertation fieldwork in Paraguay from February 2014 to January 2015. Joel's research comprises a comparative case study of three Inter-American Court of Human Rights cases in favor of indigenous territorial claims in the Paraguayan Chaco. Using a variety of qualitative...

Galen Murton Awarded Fulbright-Hays Fellowship

Oct. 16, 2014

The Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad fellowship will support Galen's fieldwork in Nepal and Tibet from November 2014-July 2015. His research examines how international politics and cultural identities intersect and are mutually constituted through development. Using roads as a lens of observation, he will conduct an 鈥渆thnography of geopolitics鈥� in...

Ian Rowen quoted in El Mundo

Oct. 11, 2014

Ian was quoted in an El Mundo article regarding Taiwanese student activism. Read article in Spanish

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You've probably seen bryozoans at the beach without even knowing it鈥攕ome look like floating balls of mucus, while others resemble a bit of crust growing over docks and other hard surfaces. According to a new study, these strange organisms may reveal how colony-forming animals evolved a system for divvying up jobs millions of years ago.

A series of rocks hiding around Colorado's Rocky Mountains hold clues to a frigid period in Earth's past when glaciers several miles thick may have covered the entire planet.

A new CU Boulder study paints a grim picture of how blistering heat, wildfire smoke and other extreme weather events impact Colorado鈥檚 jail and prison population.