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2019-2020 Issue | Arts & Sciences Magazine

2019-2020 Issue | Arts & Sciences Magazine

Features

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Believe the liberal arts are dead as doornails? Think again.

Mark Twain once remarked that “reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.” That was memorable enough to have been repeated ever since. But he didn’t say that, exactly. Let’s review the story and discuss why it matters.

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Visionary hopes to improve eyesight for millions

Alumnus’ ski trip inspires an insight that could help give the world’s poor better vision.

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Climate

Evidence of climate-driven conflicts is piling up

Climate has played a small but important role in fueling civil wars and other conflicts, CU Boulder and other researchers find.

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From ‘major identity crisis’ to career fulfillment

“I began feeling pressure about what I wanted to do when I graduated, and I started to question if my psych degree would get me there,” says alum who stayed the course and succeeded.

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Amsterdam to CU Boulder, by rail, boat, bus and bike

Climate researcher eschews air travel on 8,000-mile ‘commute’ to take up INSTAAR position.

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CU Boulder grad licks problem of slippery cell phones

Her invention and new company, CatTongue Grips, was born because no other product offered grippiness without scratching

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Map of Oyo's Collapse, 1822

Maps of fallen kingdom shed light on Atlantic slave trade

New maps of pre-colonial Africa provide context on the slaves who departed from the Bight of Benin

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Markos

Lawyer, political science grad leaps into kelp farming

‘Kelp is the future of feeding the world,’ says Markos Scheer, as he launches what he believes will be the largest U.S. kelp farm.

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Fourth graders dig into pop music and poetry at CU Boulder

As they learn how writers revise their work and use literary devices, the students gear up for a school assembly led by an Australian rap star.

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Reaching the top of Frito-Lay, alum chose a radically different path

An interest in big-picture questions is a common thread in Brock Leach’s success in business and ministry.

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