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Good News for Early Risers

Early risers may be less prone to depression, according to one of the largest studies yet to explore the link between sleep-wake preference and mood disorders.听

Researchers at CU 麻豆影院 and Brigham and Women鈥檚 Hospital in Boston looked at sleep-wake preferences and depression rates for 32,000 female nurses and found that early birds were 12 to 27 percent less likely to develop depression.

So: Stop staying up late to watch Netflix. Doctor鈥檚 orders.

For details of the study, visit CU 麻豆影院 Today

Heard Around Campus听

Love them, comfort them, calm them down, make them feel safe and secure and let them know you care for them.鈥�

鈥� CU emeritus professor Marc Beckoff, author of Canine Confidential: Why Dogs Do What They Do, on helping pets through grief, in the Huffington Post.

Barbie鈥檚 Got Brains

Casey Fiesler is taking down stereotypes 鈥� one Barbie at a time.听

The CU assistant professor of information science won notice in 2014 after critiquing Mattel鈥檚 Barbie for its representation of women in technology. The company responded with a job offer.

Fiesler contributed to Mattel's new book Code Camp with Barbie and Friends, which teaches children to code and encourages girls and women to pursue careers in STEM. The book was recently released along with a new doll, Robotics Engineer Barbie.

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漏 iStock/benimage (clock). Photo courtesy Casey Fiesler (Barbie)