Perkins

Unwinding the mysteries of protein folding

March 2, 2017

Tom Perkins and JILA team unfold proteins with precise new instrumentation, illuminate 85 percent of previously unknown steps.

Turbines

Wind power you can bank on

Feb. 28, 2017

Incorporating wind energy into today’s electrical grid raises a host of questions about wind forecasting, wind-turbine siting, wind-turbine design in hurricane zones; CU Â鶹ӰԺ lab is investigating these and other questions.

sitting

If ‘sitting is the new smoking,’ can desk workers snuff out risk?

Feb. 28, 2017

CU Â鶹ӰԺ research team has found marked health benefits from electric-assist commuter bikes and ‘passive-cycling’; now, the team is studying an under-the-desk cycle that shows similar promise.

sex ed

Let’s (not) talk about sex

Feb. 28, 2017

CU sociologist’s book examines society’s mixed messages to teens about sex In the small, rural Ohio town where Stefanie Mollborn grew up, the prevailing message to teenagers about sex was straightforward: Don’t do it, because it’s morally wrong. In wealthier, liberal places like Â鶹ӰԺ, the message tends to be different:...

Newspaper

Scholars eye freedom in reverse

Feb. 28, 2017

With help from five graduate students, two CU Â鶹ӰԺ professors will conduct a careful study of what happens to citizen engagement when previously liberal democratic nations become more repressive.

Sacks

Why Mendelssohn (Moses, not Felix) matters

Feb. 28, 2017

Elias Sacks, CU Â鶹ӰԺ assistant professor or religious studies, makes a case for the contemporary relevance of an Enlightenment superstar.

Brylowe

CU scholar brings innovative hands-on teaching approach to English

Feb. 28, 2017

Thora Brylowe told her students they’d complete three separate, significant projects during the semester, each in collaborative fashion. The results would be experienced by the public in three distinct media formats: books, pictures and the internet.

Kreps

Humanitarian, lifelong student of people, politics memorialized in scholarship

Feb. 27, 2017

Political science is the degree that Kreps earned from the Â鶹ӰԺ in 1993. And it’s for that interest which Kreps, who passed away last April at the age of 45, is memorialized in the newly renovated Ketchum Arts and Sciences Building.

Eagan

Former kid from Levittown boosts education, the great leveler

Feb. 27, 2017

To Christopher Eagan, growing up in Levittown, N.Y., America’s first and most famous suburb, was nirvana. But after 18 years there, Eagan was ready for a change, and he knew just where he wanted to go: the Â鶹ӰԺ.

compas

The College of Arts and Sciences charts the course ahead

Feb. 27, 2017

The College of Arts and Sciences will be embarking on a vital initiative this semester by undertaking a comprehensive strategic planning process.

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