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As students return to campus in late August, CU Â鶹ӰԺ Police and the Center for the Prevention and Study of Violence will be adding a new tool to their violence prevention toolkit called the Targeted Violence Lethality Assessment Protocol, or TV-LAP.

Philip DiStefano announced Associate Professor Stefanie Johnson as the new director for CU Â鶹ӰԺ’s Center for Leadership. Johnson will assume her new role on Aug. 21.

This summer, young string musicians from across the country came together at CU Â鶹ӰԺ­’s College of Music­ to hone their craft and advance a culturally diverse future of music at the Sphinx Performance Academy summer camp.

In the wake of the devastating Marshall Fire, a team of chemists and engineers from CU Â鶹ӰԺ undertook a first-of-its-kind study to explore homes that survived the blaze. Their results reveal the potential health hazards that wildfires can leave behind in buildings.

Physicists at CU Â鶹ӰԺ and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have made record-breaking measures of electrons, finding that these tiny particles may be more round- than egg-shaped. Their results could bring scientists closer to answering a profound mystery of existence.

Maciej Walczak, CU Â鶹ӰԺ associate professor of chemistry, won a $2 million NIH grant to investigate how certain sugars modify a brain protein associated with neurodegeneration.

A $400,000 award recognizes the far-reaching medical impact of Marvin Caruthers’ development in the early 1980s of an efficient and fast method to synthesize nucleic acids. Caruthers is a distinguished professor of chemistry and biochemistry at CU Â鶹ӰԺ.

CMCI Now earned a bronze Circle of Excellence Award from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education for its fall 2022 edition, which offered a look back at the founding—and impact—of the Department of Journalism.

Colorado’s iconic and newly reopened Casa Bonita restaurant is dumping tips. Will other businesses join in? CU Â鶹ӰԺ economics Professor Jeff Zax weighs in.

Every year, consumers in the United States produce millions of tons of plastic waste, and most of it winds up in landfills. New research from chemists at CU Â鶹ӰԺ takes a first step toward making all that trash vanish.