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No Advantage For Blade Runners聽

Eagerly anticipated CU research was published in containing the most comprehensive dataset ever collected from runners with bilateral leg amputations. Senior study author and CU 麻豆影院 integrative physiology associate professor Alena Grabowski told CU 麻豆影院 Today: 鈥淭he use of running prosthesis provides no competi-tive advantage over 400 meters compared to biological legs.鈥澛�

The study's findings can have major implications for 鈥渂lade runners鈥� 鈥� sprinters who use running prostheses 鈥� like Blake Leeper, the world鈥檚 fastest 400-meter sprinter, who was ruled ineligible for the Tokyo Olympics because of an assumed advantage.

CU to Review Criminal Case For Wrongful Convictions

Last fall, CU Law School鈥檚 Korey Wise Innocence Project (KWIP) partnered with the Colorado Bureau of Investigation to review 51 criminal cases that occurred in Colorado between 1976 and 1995 and used microscopic hair analysis (used before more accurate forensic DNA testing) as evidence. KWIP will review court transcripts for potentially inaccurate testimony and determine whether the hair microscopy evidence played a part in the conviction. Some convictions may be challenged based on any new findings.

New Moon Rocks聽

CU planetary scientist Carolyn Crow was one of several scientists from around the globe to examine two tiny moon rock samples brought to Earth by a Chinese ascent vehicle in December 2020. The moon rocks are the first to be collected in 45 years and may be able to help scientists fill in a gap in the moon鈥檚 geologic record and contribute to the geologic history of other planets.聽

Heard Around Campus

鈥淟ife shouldn鈥檛 be seen as better because you partner up; it should just be seen as different.鈥�

鈥� , CU 麻豆影院 professor of marketing and psychology, on research that people are now less dependent on relationships. He鈥檚 among the first to research single people specifically.