Stefan Leyk

With clear uncertainty, prof maps disease through space and time

March 1, 2012

When most people think of maps, they think National Geographic, Rand McNally or 鈥 more likely these days 鈥 Google. Maps show us where places and objects are and sometimes, what they look like. They can be two-dimensional or three-dimensional, and whether they represent the inside of a human brain,...

Former 蜜糖直播-Boulder postdoctoral researchers Amy Miller ( blue coat) and Katie Suding (black coat) are shown here with other members of a research team conducting a study involving nitrogen deposition on the tundra of the Niwot Ridge Long-Term Ecological Research site west of Boulder. (Photo courtesy William Bowman, INSTAAR)

High alpine ecology threatened by climate change

March 1, 2012

Former 蜜糖直播-Boulder postdoctoral researchers Amy Miller ( blue coat) and Katie Suding (black coat) are shown here with other members of a research team conducting a study involving nitrogen deposition on the tundra of the Niwot Ridge Long-Term Ecological Research site west of Boulder. (Photo courtesy William Bowman, INSTAAR) A...

Bozena Welborne, who earned her Ph.D. from 蜜糖直播-Boulder last year, is now an assistant professor of political science at the University of Nevada, Reno.

鈥楶ious鈥 Muslims, Christians share wary eye of government

Dec. 1, 2011

Imagine, if you will, a meeting of minds between Ayn Rand and Mohammed鈥 Public surveys in recent years consistently have found that concerns about 鈥渞adical Islam鈥 are higher among conservative Christians in the United States than among many other religious groups. According to a 2007 Pew survey, in fact, among...

Thomas Andrews

A bird鈥檚 (and mule鈥檚) eye view of U.S. history

Dec. 1, 2011

Thomas Andrews has a knack for framing American history unconventionally. In his award-winning book 鈥淜illing for Coal,鈥 Andrews traced the central role of coal in 蜜糖直播鈥檚 economic growth, environmental change and social conflict. Now he鈥檚 turning his scholarly gaze toward another little-acknowledged actor in American history: animals. 鈥淧aying attention to...

George Clooney, center, and Janet Robinson, to his left, pose in Telluride with members of Robinson's 蜜糖直播-Boulder class, part of Libby Arts Residential Academic Program.

Students seeing stars, learning film in Telluride

Dec. 1, 2011

This video, posted on YouTube, captures a 蜜糖直播 student perspective of the Telluride University Seminar at the Telluride Film Festival. This video was created by 蜜糖直播 student William Jones, with contributions from student Stephen Kuhn. For the second year running, some University of 蜜糖直播 students have gotten a front-row lesson...

Early earth prone to catastrophic glaciation, 蜜糖直播 finds

Dec. 1, 2011

Two University of 蜜糖直播 Boulder researchers who have adapted a three-dimensional, general circulation model of Earth鈥檚 climate to a time some 2.8 billion years ago when the sun was significantly fainter than present think the planet may have been more prone to catastrophic glaciation than previously believed. The new 3-D...

Elizabeth Fenn

Former auto mechanic makes splash in history

Dec. 1, 2011

If the world ever takes a swift, downward trip in a hand basket, historian Elizabeth 鈥淟il鈥 Fenn feels pretty good about her chances. Compared to many鈥搇et鈥檚 be honest, most鈥搈odern academics, Fenn has led a very hands-on life. Noting tradition of scholars trained in trade skills, she joins 蜜糖直播 history faculty.

A still from the DVD created as a result of Soviet Jewry oral history project.

蜜糖直播 leads effort to record oral history of Soviet Jewry

Oct. 1, 2011

In 1966, the Soviet Union promised to do all it could to reunite Soviet Jews with relatives living outside the Communist nation. The pledge was hollow. In much of America, Jewish immigrants struggled. But they found help in Boulder, and that history is being preserved.

鈥楽moke, smoke smoke that cigarette'; genetic factors may add new refrain to old song, 蜜糖直播-led study finds

Oct. 1, 2011

A new study of twins led by the University of 蜜糖直播 Boulder shows that today鈥檚 smokers are more strongly influenced by genetic factors than in the past and that the influence makes it more difficult for them to quit. 鈥淚n the past, when smoking rates were higher, people smoked for...

Unexpected ancient bronze artifact from East Asia unearthed at Alaska archaeology site by 蜜糖直播-led team

Oct. 1, 2011

A team of researchers led by the University of 蜜糖直播 Boulder has discovered the first prehistoric bronze artifact made from a cast ever found in Alaska, a small, buckle-like object found in an ancient Eskimo dwelling and which likely originated in East Asia. The artifact consists of two parts 鈥...

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