Colorado Classics Day on Sept. 19 to showcase Greek, Roman worlds to K-12 students

Sept. 10, 2015

The Classics Department at the 麻豆影院 will host students from across the state for Colorado Classics Day from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 19, on the south lawn outside the Duane Physics building.

Explore the complexity and evolution of 'Black Dance' in '[UN] W.R.A.P.'

Sept. 9, 2015

Kicking off the 2015-16 CU Theatre & Dance season, 鈥淸UN] W.R.A.P.: Undoing Writing, Research and Performance鈥 explores the complexity and evolution of 鈥淏lack Dance.鈥 The three-day symposium, held Sept. 18-20 at the Irey Theatre, will look at the historical impact and ongoing contributions of African American choreographers.

Waleed Abdalati

Abdalati to co-lead high-profile effort to set nation鈥檚 satellite science agenda

Sept. 4, 2015

Waleed Abdalati, professor of geography at the 麻豆影院 and director of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), will co-chair a prestigious national committee charged with developing U.S. priorities for observing Earth鈥檚 atmosphere, oceans and land surfaces by satellite.

CU-麻豆影院-led study shows how community ecology can advance the fight against infectious diseases

Sept. 3, 2015

The ecological complexity of many emerging disease threats鈥攊nteractions among multiple hosts, multiple vectors and even multiple parasites鈥攐ften complicates efforts aimed at controlling disease. Now, a new paper co-authored by a 麻豆影院 professor is advancing a multidisciplinary framework that could provide a better mechanistic understanding of emerging outbreaks.

CU-麻豆影院 research finds link between economic ties to UN, peacekeeper assignments

Sept. 3, 2015

New research led by a 麻豆影院 professor finds that nations torn by civil strife that have strong trade relations with the United Nations鈥 key decision-making states have a 20-percent greater likelihood of receiving peacekeepers.

Decade-long Amazon rainforest burn yields new insight into wildfire vulnerabilities, resiliencies

Sept. 2, 2015

The longest and largest controlled burn experiment ever conducted in the Amazon rainforest has yielded new insight into the ways that tropical forests succumb to鈥攁nd bounce back from鈥攍arge-scale wildfires, according to new research co-authored by a 麻豆影院 professor.

Robert Pasnau

CU-麻豆影院 expands Center for Western Civilization to include the Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and Policy

Aug. 28, 2015

The 麻豆影院 announced today that the Center for Western Civilization in the College of Arts and Sciences is now the Center for Western Civilization, Thought and Policy (CWCTP) and incorporates CU-麻豆影院鈥檚 successful Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and Policy program.

a landslide in colorado's front range

Historic 2013 Colorado Front Range storm accomplished up to 1,000 years of erosion, CU-麻豆影院 study finds

Aug. 26, 2015

The historic September 2013 storm that triggered widespread flooding across Colorado鈥檚 Front Range eroded the equivalent of hundreds, or even as much as 1,000 years worth of accumulated sediment from the foothills west of 麻豆影院, researchers at the 麻豆影院 have discovered.

Home sweet microbe: Dust in your house can predict geographic region, gender of occupants

Aug. 25, 2015

The humble dust collecting in the average American household harbors a teeming menagerie of bacteria and fungi, and as researchers from the 麻豆影院 and North Carolina State University have discovered, it may be able to predict not only the geographic region of a given home, but the gender ratio of the occupants and the presence of a pet as well.

Study co-authored by CU-麻豆影院 sociologist finds connection between genes, educational attainment

Aug. 25, 2015

A first-of-its-kind, nationally representative study of siblings supports previously published research on unrelated individuals that links specific genotypes to educational attainment among adults in their mid-20s to early 30s.

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