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The historic September 2013 storms that triggered widespread flooding across Colorado’s Front Range eroded the equivalent of hundreds or even 1,000 years worth of accumulated sediment from the foothills west of Boulder, researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have discovered.

The vast majority of people living in areas prone to wildfires know they face risk, but they tend to underestimate that risk compared with wildfire professionals.

During the evolution of invertebrates like amphioxus into vertebrates like fish, a remarkable structure appeared: the head. How, exactly, the head evolved has long been a mystery, but scientists postulated that skulls were built from fundamentally new tissue. Now, CU-Boulder research suggests that skull tissue was actually built from existing tissues never before found in invertebrates.

Thomas Edison famously said that genius was “one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.” For the last 77 years, summer work and study in CU-Boulder’s Ketchum Arts and Sciences building inevitably involved sweat. The building had no air conditioning. Thanks to a major renovation, that and many other architectural deficiencies are being corrected.

Eighteen years after his death, Reuben Zubrow’s colorful personality, playful sense of humor and engaging teaching style is vividly remembered by students, colleagues and friends. An unusually engaging teacher, economist of national stature and pivotal figure in attracting students to the study of economics, Zubrow could enliven everything from an economics lesson to a tennis match.

CU-Boulder’s David Shneer is known for his historical research on photojournalists who chronicled the Holocaust in World War II Soviet Union; they witnessed and recorded the slaughter of Soviet citizens including those who, like the photographers themselves, were Jewish. Now, Shneer is curating an exhibition of the photographs in Illinois that appears in English and, for the first time, Russian. Soviet Holocaust survivors and Soviet WWII veterans have responded favorably.

CU-Boulder Associate Professor Hillary Potter went to Ferguson, Missouri, to research the protests surrounding the death of Michael Brown, who was killed by a police officer. Potter visited Ferguson to pursue knowledge and to help spread the message of the town’s black people.

Ancient Greece has been intensively studied, but there is still much to learn, particularly in some rural parts of the country. CU-Boulder students, under the guidance of a CU assistant professor, are among those unearthing new artifacts.

A dozen senior CU-Boulder performance majors auditioned before casting agents through the Actors Connection in New York City this year. The trip was so successful, another group of CU-Boulder seniors returns next year.

A team of researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder has used neuroimaging techniques to understand associations between brain function and risky behavior in adolescents, moving one step closer to definitively diagnosing dangerous predispositions to risk-taking.