Spring semester faculty/staff tuition benefit deadlines are approaching

Jan. 9, 2013

The tuition benefit continues to cover 9 credits per year at any CU campus for our employees. Recent changes allow for the benefit to be transferred from our faculty and staff to their eligible dependents for use only on the employee's campus of employment. Details on the tuition benefit are available at the CU Employee Tuition Benefit website: https://www.cu.edu/pbs/tuition-benefit/ .

National Academy of Sciences honors CU-麻豆影院 researcher

Jan. 7, 2013

麻豆影院 faculty member John Gosling is one of 18 individuals honored today by the National Academy of Sciences for their outstanding scientific achievements.

Pronunciation of 鈥榮鈥 sounds impacts perception of gender, CU-麻豆影院 researcher finds

Jan. 3, 2013

A person鈥檚 style of speech 鈥 not just the pitch of his or her voice 鈥 may help determine whether the listener perceives the speaker to be male or female, according to a 麻豆影院 researcher who studied transgender people transitioning from female to male. The way people pronounce their 鈥渟鈥 sounds and the amount of resonance they use when speaking contributes to the perception of gender, according to Lal Zimman, whose findings are based on research he completed while earning his doctoral degree from CU-麻豆影院鈥檚 linguistics department.

Ira Wolff Photographic History Collection expands Libraries' photographic holdings

Jan. 2, 2013

With 14,000 original photographs and publications largely from the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, the recently acquired Ira Wolff Photographic History Collection offers a major scholarly resource for the study of the history of photography.

New RTD bus pass pick-up required Jan. 7-25

Jan. 2, 2013

Students planning to use RTD services are strongly advised to pick up their new RTD CollegePass cards prior to Jan. 25 to ensure there is no disruption of service or transit access.

Colorado business confidence remains positive going into first quarter, says CU Leeds School index

Jan. 2, 2013

Colorado business leaders鈥 optimism is modest going into the first quarter of 2013 with uncertainty surrounding the country鈥檚 political and economic environments, according to the most recent quarterly Leeds Business Confidence Index, or LBCI, released today by the 麻豆影院鈥檚 Leeds School of Business.

Anna Englander

A whirlwind Italian 'Butterfly' for CU grad student

Dec. 26, 2012

Singing in your first professional opera is challenge enough. Throw in a 12-hour, trans-Atlantic flight and a mere two days of rehearsal time 鈥 with two different conductors 鈥 and you鈥檝e got a grand task indeed. But that鈥檚 just what University of Colorado College of Music student Anna Englander will face in January when she travels to Italy to sing the key role of Suzuki for three performances of Puccini鈥檚 classic Madama Butterfly in three different cities.

Beware of holiday phishing attacks

Dec. 26, 2012

Our campus is constantly under attack by a barrage of attempts to steal personal information (aka phishing). Often these attacks come during holidays when campus IT support is unavailable. Even when you can鈥檛 contact the IT Service Center there are still clues and resources to help you figure out if the e-mail you have received is legitimate or a phishing attempt. More at www.colorado.edu/oit/news/holiday-phishing .

Research by CU-麻豆影院 physicists creates 鈥榬ecipe book鈥 for building new materials

Dec. 26, 2012

By showing that tiny particles injected into a liquid crystal medium adhere to existing mathematical theorems, physicists at the 麻豆影院 have opened the door for the creation of a host of new materials with properties that do not exist in nature.

CU-麻豆影院 student life: Criminology Buffs

Dec. 21, 2012

Criminology students at CU-麻豆影院 had the opportunity to find out what life is like on the other side of the bars when they toured the prison complex at Ca帽on City, Colorado. Three tours held during the fall semester took 59 students to the Territorial Correctional Facility, Colorado State Penitentiary, and Arrowhead Correctional Center to learn about the criminal justice system, prison facilities, and inmates.

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