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25 years post-Columbine, it鈥檚 time to invest in 鈥榲iolence prevention infrastructure鈥

April 15, 2024

On the eve of the 25th remembrance of the Columbine High School shooting, the director of CU鈥檚 Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence reflects on what we鈥檝e learned and what we can do better to stem the nation鈥檚 tide of mass shootings.

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Gang ties don鈥檛 always bind

April 15, 2024

Research from CU 麻豆影院 sociology professor David Pyrooz shows for many prisoners, gang affiliation tends to drop off once they are released back into their communities.

Hank Aaron swinging bat at the plate

Remembering 715, a number that transcended baseball

April 10, 2024

Fifty years after Hank Aaron broke Babe Ruth鈥檚 home run record, CU 麻豆影院 scholar Jared Bahir Browsh reflects on the legacy of an athlete who began his career in a segregated league.

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Researcher sees 鈥榓larming鈥 risk of political violence in US

April 2, 2024

Political scientist Regina Bateson spent years in Guatemala following a devastating civil war. Her research has revealed how vigilantism and other forms of political violence can emerge and spread around the world鈥攊ncluding, perhaps, at home in the United States.

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How law students are keeping a historic water distribution tradition alive in Southern Colorado

April 2, 2024

For the last decade, Colorado Law students have supported the legal needs of acequia communities in Colorado鈥檚 San Luis Valley through the Acequia Assistance Project.

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The potential impact of the mifepristone Supreme Court case

March 22, 2024

The Supreme Court will hear arguments over access and regulations on mifepristone鈥攁 drug used in medical abortions. Colorado Law professor Jennifer Hendricks studies constitutional family law and gives her take on the upcoming case.

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A really gutsy piece of journalism on police response to death of woman

March 15, 2024

This year鈥檚 Nakkula Award for Police Reporting goes to Andy Mannix and the Minnesota Star Tribune for a story that, as one judge put it, 鈥渁 lot of newsrooms would have run screaming away from.鈥

Donald Trump speaking at his 2017 inauguration.

Now that Trump鈥檚 on the Colorado ballot, here鈥檚 what鈥檚 next

March 4, 2024

The Supreme Court ruled neither Colorado nor any other state can remove Donald Trump鈥檚 name from the ballot based on the 14th Amendment and actions leading up the the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. Get Professor Doug Spencer鈥檚 take.

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Police pullback linked to increases in crime

Feb. 28, 2024

A study of 78 Denver neighborhoods found that when police pulled back their activity amid COVID-19 lockdowns and in the wake of George Floyd's death in 2020, crime generally increased. But not every neighborhood was impacted the same.

A courtroom inside the Supreme Court building

Moore v. United States: A Supreme Court case that could upend the tax code

Feb. 13, 2024

The case is a 鈥渟tructural threat鈥 to the income tax system as we know it, according to a CU law professor and tax specialist. Sloan Speck gives his take on Moore v. U.S.

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