Ketai

Rising star at Amazon values diversification and diversity

Sept. 5, 2018

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.

New Orleans

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

Sept. 4, 2018

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.

depression

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

Aug. 18, 2018

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.

avenger

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

Aug. 18, 2018

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

Drakensberg

Living in African cave to study flower pollinated by hummingbird-like fly

Aug. 2, 2018

there we were, three Americans standing near South Africa’s Drakensberg Mountains, where Barton, I learned, was studying how it was that a flower pollinated by a fly that looks like a hummingbird evolved — and may still be evolving.

distinction

College names three new professors of distinction

Aug. 1, 2018

In recognition of their exceptional service, teaching and research, three members of the University of Colorado Boulder faculty have been named 2018 Professors of Distinction by the College of Arts and Sciences.

women in politics

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

July 31, 2018

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

Photograph of the alpine and some researchers.

Diversity begets diversity in the alpine

July 19, 2018

As plant communities become more diverse and complex in the high alpine, so to do soil microorganisms, according to a new CU Boulder study.

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