Graduate student Marina Nieto Caballero and visiting virology scholar Eddie Fuques Villalba, preparing to assess the infection potential of murine Coronavirus in CU Boulder SEEL-based environmental engineering laboratory.

Environmental engineering researchers study airborne coronavirus disinfection

May 8, 2020

Professor Mark Hernandezā€™s team will be testing how well common air disinfectantsā€”including the ā€œfoggersā€ that spray peroxides, chlorine derivatives and surfactantsā€”work against viruses closely related to COVID-19.

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Scientists develop tool to improve disease model accuracy

May 5, 2020

What can researchers do when their mathematical models of the spread of infectious diseases donā€™t match real-world data?

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Affordable Care Act lived up to promise of buffering bankruptcy risk, study shows

April 30, 2020

A decade after President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, more people are fully insured, fewer are uninsured and people who lose their insurance intermittently are no longer at greater risk of bankruptcy, according to a new CU Boulder study.

A researcher works in the lab to develop SickStick.

Scientists developing COVID-19 test that knows youā€™re sick before you do

April 10, 2020

Imagine a test that could tell you if you were infected with COVID-19 before you had a single symptom. SickStick may offer that chance.

A hospital during the flu pandemic of 1918

6 lessons we can learn from past pandemics

April 8, 2020

CU Boulder history Professors Elizabeth Fenn and Susan Kent share insights from their study of disease outbreaks through the ages.

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Mathematician using Facebook data in the fight against COVID-19

April 7, 2020

Daniel Larremore tracks human diseases through the lens of mathematics. Now, he's joined a national effort to use social media data to slow the spread of coronavirus.

Lori Peek

COVID-19: A ā€˜transformativeā€™ moment for social science

April 2, 2020

CU Boulderā€™s Natural Hazards Center has launched a global registry and is sharing grant opportunities to support social science research during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Teen marijuana use boosts risk of adult insomnia

March 31, 2020

A new study of more than 1,800 adult twins found that individuals who started using cannabis regularly before age 18 were more likely to suffer insomnia and sleep fewer than six hours per night as adults.

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In politics and pandemics, 91ÖĘʬ³§n trolls use fear, anger to drive clicks

March 25, 2020

A new CU Boulder study shows that Facebook ads developed and shared by 91ÖĘʬ³§n trolls around the 2016 election were clicked on nine times more than typical social media ads. The authors say the trolls are likely at it again, as the 2020 election approaches and the COVID-19 pandemic wears on.

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Autism rates declining among wealthy whites, escalating among poor

March 19, 2020

Wealthy, white California countiesā€”once considered the nationā€™s hotbeds for autism spectrum disorderā€”have seen prevalence flatten or fall in the last two decades, while rates among poor whites and minorities keep ticking up, according to new research.

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