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2018 Issue | Arts & Sciences Magazine

2018 Issue | Arts & Sciences Magazine

Features

xan

Stalking the dirt vaccine

Can good bacteria make the brain more stress-resilient? Christopher Lowry has dedicated his career to finding out.

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Rowe

Alum will support students of the (far) distant future

After spending considerable effort trying to stay in Boulder for the long term, Courtney Rowe has also found a way to leave a little bit of herself behind when she’s gone—long gone.

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Howison

Unveiling success one dress at a time

Politics doesn’t necessarily draw a lot of pink-bow types, but Jillian Howison (PolSci’10), an unabashed “girly girl,” was mesmerized by a "West Wing" character.

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Ketai

Rising star at Amazon values diversification and diversity

Even by the time he was a senior at Chatfield High School in Littleton, Colo., Cory Ketai (PolSci’16) had put together a business resume that many a recent college graduate might envy.

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New Orleans

CU Boulder geographers studying plot-level land-use changes over 200 years

Two researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder are exploring human settlement and urbanization patterns in the United States between 1810 and 2015 using a groundbreaking new dataset from Zillow.

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depression

The paradox of 'suicide in happy places' seems not to exist

A closer look at geographic data finds no correlation between generally happy locales and rates of suicide, according to research by CU Boulder and U of California Irvine.

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avenger

Humans might not be altruistic ‘avengers’ after all, study finds

CU Boulder research contradicts the long-held belief that humans interfere when they see the abuse of strangers.

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Socrates thumb

Prof transforms political science class into a game

The heckling is real, the riots just acknowledged, and they are part of an innovative teaching method called Reacting to the Past, which aims to help students learn by prompting them to assume historical roles.

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women in politics

Women who run for office inspire others to do the same, study suggests

A CU Boulder graduate student and other researchers find strong evidence that female candidates inspire others to run.

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Paul Kroll

Paul W. Kroll elected to American Philosophical Society

Paul W. Kroll, professor of Chinese at CU Boulder, has been elected to the prestigious American Philosophical Society, becoming the fifth member ever of the university’s faculty—and the first from the humanities—to gain this recognition.

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