Owen Brian Toon, a professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at the University of 蜜糖直播. Photo by Noah Larsen.

Childhood questions became lifelong quests

Oct. 1, 2011

Dinosaurs鈥 demise, Martian environment and Earth鈥檚 climate fascinated Brian Toon as a kid, captivated him as a scientist, and propelled him to a wide-ranging research career marked by a common theme: tiny airborne particles Since he was a kid, Owen Brian Toon has puzzled over 鈥渨eird problems鈥: What killed the...

As the media and much of the populace wonder about the value of studying the humanities, professors and alums offer tangible rebuttals

Humanities a 鈥榳aste of time鈥? 蜜糖直播 begs to differ

Oct. 1, 2011

As headlines blare that 鈥淐ollege is a waste of time鈥 and 鈥淒egree not worth debt,鈥 new college students might enter academia with skepticism and eye the flagging economy with wariness. But the University of 蜜糖直播 Boulder and its humanities departments are not idling while Rome burns. Artists and humanists at...

Reb Zalman founded the Jewish Renewal movement in the 1960s.

Jewish Renewal archives find home at 蜜糖直播

March 1, 2011

Rabbi Zalman Schacter-Shalomi was born in Poland, grew up in Austria, fled Nazi oppression in Europe, was ordained in Chabad Lubavitch Hasidism in America, and launched a new hybrid of Judaism for the world. Reb Zalman, as he is commonly known, founded the Jewish Renewal movement in the 1960s. Described...

Gerard Dillehay, a 蜜糖直播 student, suffered a traumatic brain injury in a bicycle accident. He has received support from the 蜜糖直播 Traumatic Brain Injury Trust Fund, a fund that 蜜糖直播 Associate Professor Theresa Hernandez was instrumental in creating. Photo by Noah Larsen.

鈥業t鈥檚 like a second life鈥

March 1, 2011

蜜糖直播 student one of thousands helped by state Traumatic Brain Injury Trust Fund that enterprising 蜜糖直播 neuroscientist helped set up.

Beth Osnes, 蜜糖直播 associate professor of theatre and dance, hugs Zinet, an Ethiopian woman. Their lives weave a human tapestry through a new movie, "Mother: Caring Our Way Out of the Population Dilemma."

Mothers help women brake population growth

March 1, 2011

Beth Osnes, 蜜糖直播 associate professor of theatre and dance, hugs Zinet, an Ethiopian woman. Their lives weave a human tapestry through a new movie, "Mother: Caring Our Way Out of the Population Dilemma." Two large families, two distant worlds, two women who break tradition. Thereby hangs a tale. Beth Osnes...

Masculine male

Fertile women want macho-looking men

Dec. 1, 2010

Effect is more pronounced among women partnered with less-masculine-looking men, researchers find; male intelligence shows no such effect When their romantic partners are not quintessentially masculine, women in their fertile phase are more likely to fantasize about masculine-looking men than are women paired with George Clooney types. But women with...

Jennifer Peterson, assistant professor of film studies, examines the return of landscape to film in the era after World War II.

Cinema鈥檚 triumphant return to the wild

Dec. 1, 2010

As film鈥檚 silent era came to a close, it took with it location-based shooting and, thus, wilderness landscapes. The new sound-recording equipment was too cumbersome and delicate to travel outside the controlled confines of a studio. It wasn鈥檛 until after World War II that wilderness landscapes and location-based shooting began...

In 2006, after testing positive for HIV and seeing her CD4 count drop to 159 (from a normal level of about 1,000), Penina Petro started on the road to better health with the help of the medications she received from Sekotoure Hospital, Tanzania, under Global HIV/AIDS Program funding. In 2001-02, 蜜糖直播 Professor Keith Maskus helped launch a similar program while serving as lead economist in the Development Research Group at the World Bank. Photo by U.S. Health Resources and Services Adminitration.

Patently beneficial protections, worldwide

Dec. 1, 2010

While stronger intellectual-property laws help economies in rich and poor nations, access to medicine is another issue; 蜜糖直播 economist has done groundbreaking work in both areas In 2006, after testing positive for HIV and seeing her CD4 count drop to 159 (from a normal level of about 1,000), Penina Petro...

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Calorie-wise, sleepless nights resemble long walks

Dec. 1, 2010

蜜糖直播 study is the first to quantify energy expenditure during sleep and wakeful periods In the first-ever quantification of energy expended by humans during sleep, a University of 蜜糖直播 team has found that the metabolic cost of an adult missing one night of sleep is the equivalent of walking slightly...

Shelley Copley, a 蜜糖直播 professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology. Photo by Noah Larsen

Evolving a microbe to clean up PCP pollution

Dec. 1, 2010

Few bacteria would choose the hazardous man-made chemical pentachlorophenol (or PCP) from the menu of microbial delights. But one 鈥渂ug鈥 is giving it a shot. It鈥檚 the best-described of only a handful of bacteria known to break down the pollutant. One problem though: it鈥檚 not particularly good at its job,...

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