Gerard Dillehay, a CU student, suffered a traumatic brain injury in a bicycle accident. He has received support from the Colorado Traumatic Brain Injury Trust Fund, a fund that CU 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

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

Beth Osnes, CU 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, CU 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...

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

Jewish Renewal archives find home at CU

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...

Manipulated film

Transforming film into visual poetry

March 1, 2011

New center preserves work of CU filmmaker Stan Brakhage, aims to be a hub for other experimental media Stan Brakhage loved poetry and befriended poets but considered himself a failed poet. Many experts disagreed. He was, they said, a consummate poet鈥攐ne who spoke in the language of film and measured...

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,...

Lake

It came from Mono Lake

Dec. 16, 2010

But is NASA鈥檚 finding truly a previously undiscovered form of 鈥榳eird life鈥 on Earth? Many scientists, including some noted experts at CU, have doubts The New York Times, NASA and the prestigious journal Science announced startling news recently. 鈥淢icrobe Finds Arsenic Tasty; Redefines Life,鈥 a page-one Times headline proclaimed. The...

Stack of textbooks

To teach your children well

Dec. 1, 2010

With a mixture of art, science and inspiration, stellar CU teachers in classics, physics and philosophy embody the harmony of research and teaching, and their examples add context to the national discourse on 鈥榓cademic efficiency鈥

Genders on a teeter totter

Narrowing the 鈥榞ender gap鈥 in physics

Dec. 1, 2010

鈥楽urprising鈥 finding: spending 15 minutes, twice a semester, writing about music, family or other things women value helps them perform better in introductory courses

Caitlin Epple and Kyle Metcalf pose before going to their high-school prom.

Though gone, Caitlin and Kyle still helping others

Dec. 1, 2010

Caitlin Epple and Kyle Metcalf were bursting with energy, love and promise. Now, those photographs are a testament to two lives lived very well and done too soon.

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