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Scholars eye freedom in reverse

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

sitting

If 鈥榮itting is the new smoking,鈥 can desk workers snuff out risk?

CU 麻豆影院 research team has found marked health benefits from electric-assist commuter bikes and 鈥榩assive-cycling鈥; now, the team is studying an under-the-desk cycle that shows similar promise.

Turbines

Wind power you can bank on

Incorporating wind energy into today鈥檚 electrical grid raises a host of questions about wind forecasting, wind-turbine siting, wind-turbine design in hurricane zones; CU 麻豆影院 lab is investigating these and other questions.

sex ed

Let鈥檚 (not) talk about sex

CU sociologist鈥檚 book examines society鈥檚 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鈥檛 do it, because it鈥檚 morally wrong. In wealthier, liberal places like 麻豆影院, the message tends to be different:...

Brylowe

CU scholar brings innovative hands-on teaching approach to English

Thora Brylowe told her students they鈥檇 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.

Sacks

Why Mendelssohn (Moses, not Felix) matters

Elias Sacks, CU 麻豆影院 assistant professor or religious studies, makes a case for the contemporary relevance of an Enlightenment superstar.

Kreps

Humanitarian, lifelong student of people, politics memorialized in scholarship

Political science is the degree that Kreps earned from the 麻豆影院 in 1993. And it鈥檚 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

To Christopher Eagan, growing up in Levittown, N.Y., America鈥檚 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 麻豆影院.

Casey

Career diplomat makes a world of difference

It was during a summer-long family trip to Europe that 13-year-old Mary Ann Casey cemented her career plan: diplomacy. "You embark overseas as a citizen of a single country; you return home as a citizen of the world," says Casey.

Stanton

CU 麻豆影院 family鈥檚 living history dates to 19th century

Timothy William Stanton matriculated at the 麻豆影院 on Sept. 5, 1877, the school鈥檚 first day of classes 鈥 ever. Stanton was a senior in high school, attending a college-prep school located in Old Main, the only building on campus.

Africans

History profs win support from National Endowment for the Humanities

Two CU 麻豆影院 history professors received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, with projects in Elizabethan politics and the emancipation of Africans taken during the outlawed slave trade in the 1800s.

Carroll

Prof preserves native traditions with help of National Science Foundation

Clint Carroll will help to preserve tribal tradition and knowledge for future generations through the Faculty Early Career Development Award, a five-year grant from the National Science Foundation.

kids

Late bedtimes, light at night could turn your kid into a 鈥榥ight owl鈥

Scientists in the 麻豆影院 Sleep and Development Laboratory recently found that 4- 5-year-olds who go to bed later and are exposed to brighter nighttime light experience delays in the timing of their brain鈥檚 central timekeeper鈥攖he biological clock. That, in turn, could lead to night-owl schedules that are associated with a host of health problems.

Blackwell

Physics sheds new light on cellular biology

Turns out, it took a physicist to unlock some key findings about how cells actually divide, and Robert Blackwell, who recently received his PhD in biological physics from the 麻豆影院, apparently stepped up to the plate in a big way.

innovation

Two distinguished profs recognized as top inventors

麻豆影院 Distinguished Professors Leslie Leinwand and Chris Bowman have been named fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).

Jimi

When does 鈥榥a na na nah鈥 become poetry?

Paul McCartney spent three minutes singing 鈥渘ah, nah, nah, na na na nah鈥 in 鈥淗ey Jude.鈥 Some might find that repetitious. Adam Bradley says it鈥檚 poetry.

DNA

CU geneticist refutes his own study linking schizophrenia, inbreeding

When Matthew Keller found he could not duplicate his own 2012 study that tied inbreeding to the chances of developing schizophrenia in a more-powerful secondary study, he wanted to make sure the scientific record was clear.

Charlotte York Irey

鈥楾o dance is to live,鈥 and dance lives on at CU

More than two decades after she had almost single-handedly established the first degree program in dance at the 麻豆影院, Charlotte York Irey attended the dedication of the new theater named in her honor.