sunflower

Are sunflowers ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥â€™s best hedge against climate change?

July 11, 2023

In the state’s dry, nutrient-deficient soil, ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder researchers and others aim to learn if the crop can survive and even thrive in a hotter, drier future.

blue and red light

New material shows potential for better solar cells, more effective medical imaging

July 6, 2023

ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder chemistry researcher Joel Eaves and his co-investigators demonstrated how designing interfaces between organic and inorganic materials can convert low-energy light to high-energy.

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The power of speaking up

July 5, 2023

ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Arts & Sciences grad Krouse wins prestigious Edgar Award for true-crime memoir about ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥â€™s early 2000s sexual-assault scandal.

brain neurons

Chemist to study molecular inner workings of Alzheimer’s disease

July 5, 2023

Maciej Walczak, ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder associate professor of chemistry, won a $2 million NIH grant to investigate how certain sugars modify a brain protein associated with neurodegeneration.

Moscow

What’s next for Putin’s Russia?

June 29, 2023

An agreement between the Wagner mercenary group and the Russian government averts a civil war for now, but the future is less clear, according to ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder Russia expert and political science professor

DNA

ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder’s Marvin Caruthers wins inaugural Merkin Prize in Biomedical Technology for developing technology that efficiently synthesizes DNA

June 28, 2023

The $400,000 award recognizes the far-reaching medical impact of Caruthers’ development, in the early 1980s, of an efficient and fast method to synthesize nucleic acids.

undergraduate

Twenty-six students are named 2023 Van Ek Scholars

June 26, 2023

The award is given to students for academic achievement and service; it is considered one of the College of Arts & Sciences’ highest honors.

grasslands

Research studying grassland resilience to climate change receives USDA grant support

June 22, 2023

ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder Ecology and Evolutionary Biology scientist Katharine Suding is leading ongoing research in partnership with City of Boulder Open Space.

mayan artifact

Ghosts, global warming and hunter-gatherers

June 15, 2023

A recently published paper co-authored by ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder’s Fernando Villanea offers new insights into what happened to the populations of Central Mexico a millennium ago.

viruses

ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder’s Aaron Whiteley named a Pew Scholar

June 13, 2023

The biochemistry assistant professor is investigating how inflammatory proteins called NLRs establish the first line of defense against viral infection in bacteria and humans.

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