The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ received nearly $340 million in sponsored research awards in fiscal year 2009, surpassing last year's record-breaking total by a whopping $60 million and making it the largest jump in university history.
A University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ faculty member is developing technological solutions to help address the increase in obesity and related chronic illnesses among low-income communities, thanks to funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
While many students head home for summer break to recuperate after the school year, University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ junior Makenzie Lewis spent her summer in a laboratory studying new approaches to control chronic pain.
Elite priests living in a spectacular spiritual outpost built high on a southwestern Colorado mountain ridge a thousand years ago likely had their meals catered by commoners living in the valley below, according to preliminary new research by a University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ archaeology team.
A new University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ study shows the strongest evidence yet that noise pollution negatively influences bird populations, findings with implications for the fate of ecological communities situated amid growing urban clamor.
As the West warms, a drier Colorado River system could see as much as a one-in-two chance of fully depleting all of its reservoir storage by mid-century assuming current management practices continue on course, according to a new University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ study.
A small NASA aircraft completed its first successful science flight Thursday in partnership with the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ as part of an expedition to study the receding Arctic sea ice and improve understanding of its life cycle and the long-term stability of the Arctic ice cover. The mission continues through July 24.
When Ludivina Calderon enrolled in the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ BUENO Center's High School Equivalency Program, or HEP, courses, she likely had no idea how far the program would take her from working the fields between Texas and Colorado.
"Rocks Karma Arrows," a multimedia theater piece that explores some of the disturbing history of race and class in Â鶹ӰԺ, will open July 23 in the Black Box Studio at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ ATLAS Institute.
NASA has awarded the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics a $42 million contract for the development of a sophisticated instrument that will orbit Earth to monitor changes in the sun's radiation and help evaluate climate change.