http://www.colorado.edu/news/podcasts Copyright CU-Boulder News Services CU-Boulder News Services CU, CU-Boulder, University of Colorado, Colorado, CU News, CU-Boulder News, university news, university, University of Colorado at Boulder News from the University of Colorado at Boulder News from the University of Colorado at Boulder This podcast features official news and feature stories from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Select podcasts are enhanced with photos. For more news, visit http://www.colorado.edu/news CU-Boulder News Services cunews@colorado.edu no en Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:00:00 -0700 http://www.colorado.edu/news/podcasts/Memorials_Foote.mp3 Listen to Associate Professor Timothy Weston talk about the state of China on the eve of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Weston discusses a rapidly changing nation- economically and culturally- and talks about what hosting the summer games means to China as a nation. 04:48:00 no no CU-Boulder News Services http://www.colorado.edu/news/podcasts/China_Olympics.m4a Tue, 3 Jun 2008 14:30:00 -0700 http://www.colorado.edu/news/podcasts/Sex_Appeal.m4a While it may seem that some people just “have it” when it comes to sex appeal, according to a University of Colorado at Boulder communication expert, sex appeal is not an inherent trait but something anyone can learn. 11:15:00 no no CU-Boulder News Services http://www.colorado.edu/news/podcasts/Sex_Appeal.m4a Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:46:00 -0700 http://www.colorado.edu/news/podcasts/Ben_Safdi.m4a CU-Boulder student Ben Safdi, who will graduate in May with dual degrees in engineering physics and applied mathematics, is on a roll. Besides a 4.0 grade-point average, he was recently named one of 13 Churchill Scholars in the United States for 2008, an award carrying a $25,000 academic scholarship for a year at Cambridge University in England. 06:21:00 no no CU-Boulder News Services http://www.colorado.edu/news/podcasts/Ben_Safdi.m4a Mon, 11 Feb 2007 13:46:00 -0700 http://www.colorado.edu/news/podcasts/civic-award.mp3 CU junior Andra Wilkinson is passionate about community service and her experiences are an example of why the University of Colorado at Boulder is one of only three colleges and universities in the United States to receive a 2007 Presidential Award for General Community Service. In the following podcast, Wilkinson discusses how she got involved in community service activities, how it relates to her academic interests and why she does it. 13:58:00 no no CU-Boulder News Services http://www.colorado.edu/news/podcasts/civic-award.mp3 Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:00:00 -0700 http://www.colorado.edu/news/podcasts/Rood_Wichita.m4a CU-Boulder linguistics Professor David Rood has been studying the Wichita language for more than 40 years. He shares his thoughts about the disappearing world of the "People of the Grass House."  Rood has collaborated with Doris Jean Lamar McLemore, an 80-year-old Oklahoma woman who is the last living person fluent in the Wichita language. 07:45:00 no no CU-Boulder News Services http://www.colorado.edu/news/podcasts/Rood_Wichita.m4a Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:00:00 -0700 http://www.colorado.edu/news/podcasts/Cowell_Endangered.m4a Andrew Cowell, an associate professor in the CU-Boulder linguistics department, is working with the Arapaho people to record the language that gave Colorado many of its famous place names, including Kawuneeche Valley in Rocky Mountain National Park.  Cowell discusses his work and his new book, "The Arapaho Language," a scholarly tome that explains the roots and grammar of one of Colorado's indigenous languages. 11:08:00 no no CU-Boulder News Services http://www.colorado.edu/news/podcasts/Cowell_Endangered.m4a Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:00:00 -0700 http://www.colorado.edu/news/podcasts/Frajzyngier_Endangered.m4a Zygmunt Frajzyngier, chair and professor in the CU-Boulder department of linguistics, talks about his research into Africa's Chadic languages, including Gidar.  Frajzyngier, who speaks five European languages including his native Polish, says language is "the most complex intellectual product of any community." 06:50:00 no no CU-Boulder News Services http://www.colorado.edu/news/podcasts/Frajzyngier_Endangered.m4a Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:00:00 -0700 http://www.colorado.edu/news/podcasts/IceCaps.m4a A CU-Boulder research team is reporting more sobering news on Arctic ice loss in a study published this month in Geophysical Research Letters. Led by Professor Gifford Miller of the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research and graduate student Rebecca Anderson, the study indicates ice caps on the northern plateau of Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic have shrunk by half in the last 50 years years and will likely disappear by mid-century. The team also found tantalizing evidence that tropical volcanic eruptions triggered the "Little Ice Age," which cooled the climate of Europe for several centuries beginning about 1300 A.D. Listen to Miller describe the study, including the novel radiocarbon dating approach used on Baffin Island. 04:48:00 no no CU-Boulder News Services http://www.colorado.edu/news/podcasts/IceCaps.m4a Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:00:00 -0700 http://www.colorado.edu/news/podcasts/ZAX.m4a CU-Boulder economist Jeffrey Zax, an expert on labor relations and how unions affect local economies, employment and spending, discusses the controversy surrounding an executive order Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter issued last November. In this podcast, Zax talks about how the order might affect Colorado, the state's economy and state employees. According to the governor's order, the goal is to improve workplace safety, training and efficiency through greater employee-manager collaboration. Critics, however, worry that the order will increase the potential for strikes by state employees and decrease private investment. 08:34:00 no no CU-Boulder News Services http://www.colorado.edu/news/podcasts/ZAX.m4a Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:46:00 -0700 http://www.colorado.edu/news/podcasts/Greenland_Ice_Melt.m4a Record summer melting on the Greenland ice sheet in 2007 is causing concern for many climate scientists, including CU-Boulder's Konrad Steffen, director of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences who has maintained a battery of sensitive climate stations on the ice there for nearly two decades. Listen to Steffen describe the changes he is seeing on Greenland and how he and his research team -- which includes CU-Boulder undergraduate and graduate students -- are trying to better understand ice sheet and glacier dynamics and their impact on global sea-level rise. 12:54:00 no no CU-Boulder News Services http://www.colorado.edu/news/podcasts/Greenland_Ice_Melt.m4a Tue, 13 Nov 2007 11:46:00 -0700 http://www.colorado.edu/news/podcasts/SolarFlares.mp3 Scientists are using an $88 million NASA satellite designed and built by CU-Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics to chart changes in the brightness of the sun as it heads toward the peak of its solar cycle in 2012. Known as the Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment, or SORCE, the satellite documents natural variations in the output of the sun, which are key to understanding the climatic effects of events like volcanic eruptions and long-term weather cycles, as well as the impacts of human-caused climate change from greenhouse gas emissions. Listen to LASP Senior Reseach Associate Tom Woods, chief scientist on SORCE, describe how the mission is helping scientists better understand our planet. 06:56:00 no no CU-Boulder News Services http://www.colorado.edu/news/podcasts/SolarFlares.mp3 Mon, 29 Oct 2007 09:00:00 -0700 http://www.colorado.edu/news/podcasts/Biofuel.m4a A new joint energy research center involving CU-Boulder, Colorado State University, the Colorado School of Mines and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory known as the Colorado Center for Biorefining and Biofuels, or C2B2, is using $500,000 in seed grants from industrial partners to develop new commercial methods to produce energy from renewable resources. Listen to C2B2 Director Alan Weimer, a professor in CU-Boulder's chemical and biological engineering department, discuss the research thrusts of the center, including projects ranging from crop engineering to the conversion of plant material to fuels using concentrated sunlight. 08:13:00 no no CU-Boulder News Services http://www.colorado.edu/news/podcasts/Biofuel.m4a Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:30:00 -0700 http://www.colorado.edu/news/podcasts/SaturnRings.mp3 A new belt of moonlets discovered in Saturn's outermost ring, known as the "A" ring, contains thousands of icy boulders ranging in size from moving vans to domed football stadiums, according to a new study led by CU-Boulder Research Associate Miodrag Sremcevic and published in the scientific journal, Nature. Listen to Sremcevic describe the violent collision scientists think led to the creation of the mysterious belt of moonlets in the "A" ring, and how the international Cassini-Huygens space mission is changing the way we view Saturn's stunning and ever-changing ring system. 03:28:00 no no CU-Boulder News Services http://www.colorado.edu/news/podcasts/SaturnRings.mp3 Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:30:00 -0700 http://www.colorado.edu/news/podcasts/barbiegate.m4a In 2001, a controversy dubbed "Barbiegate" drew national attention after a Boulder, Colo., third-grader entered a science fair at her elementary school. The girl asked people to comment on the "prettiness" of two Barbie dolls, one white and the other black. Her project mimicked the famous "doll experiments" conducted in the 1940s by pioneering psychologists Kenneth and Mamie Clark. In this podcast, University of Colorado at Boulder communication Professor Karen Tracy talks about a collection of essays that analyze rhetoric and public discourse during and after the Barbiegate controversy and what we can learn about democracy by listening to what people have to say at local government meetings. 06:07:00 no no CU-Boulder News Services http://www.colorado.edu/news/podcasts/barbiegate.m4a Mon, 24 Sep 2007 15:00:00 -0700 http://www.colorado.edu/news/podcasts/frogs.m4a When deformed frogs in lakes and ponds around the United States caught the attention of the public more than a decade ago, puzzled scientists speculated the phenomenon might be caused by pesticides, UV radiation or infection. Listen to CU-Boulder Assistant Professor Pieter Johnson describe how a new study that he led, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shows that that high levels of nutrients used in farming and ranching activities fuel frog deformities by enhancing snail populations that spread infectious parasites to tadpoles. 05:57:00 no no CU-Boulder News Services http://www.colorado.edu/news/podcasts/frogs.m4a