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Big grant supports students transferring from 2-year colleges

Dec. 19, 2022

CU Boulder and Front Range Community College are among 104 recipients of Howard Hughes Medical Institute funding to boost inclusion in STEM fields.

Theodore Dru Alison ā€œTheoā€ Cockerell

Undergrad uncovers evidence suggesting CU pioneer favored eugenics

Dec. 16, 2022

Undergraduate Ciara Oā€™Neil found documents indicating CU Museum of Natural History co-founder Theodore Dru Alison ā€œTheoā€ Cockerell was a eugenics sympathizer.

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Economist finds sweet success with soda taxes

Dec. 12, 2022

A CU Boulder researcher has found soda taxes arenā€™t as regressive as previously feared and do decrease body mass index among non-white youth.

Floods that cuts the Raya Bintara Rd. in Jawa Barat, Indonesia on Jan. 1, 2020

Human-caused global warming, natural climate variability in vicious cycle

Dec. 9, 2022

Extreme weather and ocean events are on the rise around the world, due largely to human-caused climate change. But to fully understand these changesā€”and, ideally, to predict when and where they may occur in the futureā€”researchers and policymakers must also take into account naturally occurring climate variability, suggests new research.

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Is the future of carbon-capture technology electrochemistry?

Nov. 21, 2022

Electrically activating chemicals could help remove carbon dioxide from the air, CU Boulder researchers have found.

Sleep researchers in the home of two young children acting as test subjects.

ā€˜Sleep Fairiesā€™ complete a successful summer fellowship

Nov. 21, 2022

CU Boulderā€™s Sleep and Development Labā€™s summer fellowship provides hands-on training for undergrads while furthering research for the university.

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Students digging deeper for answers to complex problems

Nov. 14, 2022

Map the System offers CU Boulder students the chance to present their ideas for addressing deeply rooted issues at an international competition sponsored by Oxford University.

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Doctorā€™s diagnosis for the Earth: A terminal human malignancy

Nov. 14, 2022

In the book "Homo Ecophagus," a physician with CU Boulder ties sees humanity devouring itselfā€”and the planet.

Erin Hyunhee Kang

CU Boulder artist embodies resilience in wake of Marshall Fire

Nov. 8, 2022

Erin Hyunhee Kang, a CU Boulder masterā€™s student, lost half of her home in the Marshall Fire. That misfortune informed her new exhibition ā€œA Home In Between,ā€ now at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art.

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CU Boulder joins national effort to advance nuclear fusion research

Oct. 27, 2022

As part of $15 million Department of Energy project, applied mathematicians aim to employ new, novel methods to improve the physics models needed to better understand and sustain fusion.

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