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Catalan is a romance language spoken in four European countries: Spain, France, Italy and the Principality of Andorra. Catalan people feel deep pride in their culture and language, a fact that will be conveyed in courses taught at the University of Colorado for the first time this year. Beginning this...

For many years, faculty members in the University of Colorado’s Department of Psychology and Neuroscience and other departments have been asking questions about how the brain works. Now, undergraduates at the University of Colorado will have the opportunity to participate more in this quest. For the first time this fall,...

Emeritus professor was ‘interdisciplinary’ before it was cool In academic circles, the term “interdisciplinary” may be jargon, but it is also one measure of scholarly excellence. “Interdisciplinary” studies strive to make sense of the world through the lenses of disparate fields—say, astronomy, philosophy and art history. Vernon Minor was championing...

Faculty member strives to increase clinical impact of new research and to address under-served population: women of childbearing age who are depressed Women have twice the odds of suffering depression as men, and the chances rise during childbearing years. While the World Health Organization has found that depression is the...

A group from CU enjoys a moment with the actress Laura Linney in Telluride. From left to right: (back row) Louis Zeller, Hank Smith, Jackson Elley, Nathan Wickstrum, Tony Tovar, Richard Montoya, J.T. Birchall, Kenny Karsten. (middle row) Janet Robinson, Andy Bartosch, Lesley Wharton, Laura Linney, Nikki Sewell, Emilee Prado,...

To the untrained eye, University of Colorado at Boulder Research Associate Craig Lee’s recent discovery of a 10,000-year-old wooden hunting weapon might look like a small branch that blew off a tree in a windstorm.

A mobile fish lab on Boulder Creek is helping researcher assess the health of fish exposed to endocrine-disrupting chemicals polluting the waterway that can cause male fish to be feminized and decline in numbers. Image courtesy Alan Vajda, University of Colorado Denver. Male fish are taking longer to be “feminized”...

Joan Schirle lends expertise to CU Theatre The average Boulderite may not realize how his body movements speak volumes about demeanor, attitude or mood. Joan Schirle definitely does. While observing her workshop at the CU Theatre recently, I bore witness to how the movements of an actor can truly inform...

Only eight months after the tsunami, permanent houses had been provided for victims in the southern town of Hambantota, shown here, the home district of Sri Lanka's president. Tamils and Muslims on the eastern and northern coasts waited up to five years to obtain new housing. Photo credit: Michele R...

From left to right, Ashley Ballantyne of the University of Colorado at Boulder, Dara Finney of Environment Canada and Natalia Rybczynski of the Canadian Museum of Nature search for fossils in a peat deposit at Strathcona Fiord on Ellesmere Island in Canada's High Arctic. Photo courtesy Dara Finney, Environment Canada...