George Clooney, center, and Janet Robinson, to his left, pose in Telluride with members of Robinson's CU-麻豆影院 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 CU student perspective of the Telluride University Seminar at the Telluride Film Festival. This video was created by CU student William Jones, with contributions from student Stephen Kuhn. For the second year running, some University of Colorado students have gotten a front-row lesson...

World culture at CU

From Mubarak to Mao, CU鈥檚 a vanguard of culture, art

Oct. 1, 2011

In one corner of campus, an iconic image of Mao Zedung is punctuated with wood screws. In another venue, a leader of the successful uprising in Egypt this year shared her perspective of the 鈥淎rab Spring.鈥 These exemplify the 鈥渃ommunity and culture鈥 that CU fosters, preserves and celebrates.

Owen Brian Toon, a professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at the University of Colorado. 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...

Katie Grasha

In small Colorado town, an academic star is born

Oct. 1, 2011

Katie Grasha attended high school in Montrose, a Colorado community nestled in the pastoral Uncompahgre Valley, a place still so rural that its night sky twinkles with stars. Grasha, who recently graduated from the University of Colorado with a degree in astrophysical and planetary sciences, became a hometown ambassador for...

Students raising hands

@Maria, we've made #Malvolio look crazy! LOL!

Oct. 1, 2011

With the help of a smartphone and Twitter, university collaborators show kids how Shakespeare instructs us on school bullying The University of Colorado is pursuing a more-civil society with this simple recipe: Take one Shakespearean play, one group of youngsters and a mendacious tweet. Mix well. Add role-playing and discussion...

Painting of cavemen

Following a 鈥楶aleo Diet鈥? Maybe not

Oct. 1, 2011

Those who eat like 鈥渃avemen鈥 or follow a 鈥淧aleo Diet鈥 will get 鈥淣eanderthin,鈥 some weight-loss books contend. But scientists are still figuring out what early hominins actually ate. And while the picture is not complete, it is more complex than previously thought.

Michael Huemer is one of eight university faculty members who have been named CU Center for the Humanities and the Arts Fellows.

The 鈥榤oral illusion鈥 of governmental authority

March 1, 2011

Michael Huemer asks his students to imagine being a neighborhood vigilante. Suppose, he says, you live in a crime-ridden neighborhood, and nothing鈥檚 being done about it. So you hunt down criminals and lock them in your basement. After awhile, you bill your neighbors for keeping the neighborhood safe. You tell...

Ebrahim Moosa, an associate professor of Islamic studies at Duke University

Viewing the Koran as holy and historical text

March 1, 2011

Noted scholar of Islam speaks at CU as part of effort to honor Professor Frederick Denny Long before Egyptians rose up against dictator Hosni Mubarak, Egyptian authorities prosecuted an Islamic scholar who argued that Muslims should view the Koran as both a holy text and a historical document. Ebrahim Moosa,...

Various students in the classroom

Education emergency's first responders

March 1, 2011

As the 鈥榞athering storm鈥 in science and math education approaches 鈥楥ategory 5鈥 and imperils American competitiveness, CU students rush in Ryan O鈥橞lock had been considering a career in K-12 teaching since high school, but when he signed up to become an undergraduate 鈥渓earning assistant鈥 in an introductory physics course at...

People sitting in a living room

Who wants to deliberate?

March 1, 2011

Conventional wisdom suggests that average citizens hate politics, balk at voting even in presidential-election years and are, incidentally, woefully ill-informed. A new study by a team of researchers that includes a CU professor refutes that notion.

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