Doppler

Cloud seeding aims to increase mountain snowfall, power generation

Jan. 16, 2017

CU Boulder is participating in a cloud-seeding effort, launched this month, to increase winter snowfall in the mountains of southwest Idaho with hopes of ultimately increasing power generation by hydroelectric dams.

Charlotte York Irey

‘To dance is to live,’ and dance lives on at CU

Jan. 10, 2017

More than two decades after she had almost single-handedly established the first degree program in dance at the University of Colorado Boulder, Charlotte York Irey attended the dedication of the new theater named in her honor.

psychology

Lay counselors could help fill treatment gap for global, postpartum depression

Jan. 3, 2017

Does psychological counseling need to be delivered by a psychologist to be effective? Not necessarily, according to a provocative new line of research involving CU Boulder psychology professor Sona Dimidjian that suggests an army of trained “lay counselors” could someday provide a solution to the global mental health treatment gap.

anthropology

Anthropologist to discuss Commanche archaeology and plains warfare

Jan. 3, 2017

New archaeological findings have complicated the colonial history of the American Southwest, developments that anthropologist Severin Fowles will discuss in a public presentation on the University of Colorado Boulder campus this month.

Muscle

Researchers develop glycogen ‘gas gauge’ for Buffs, everyday athletes in training

Jan. 3, 2017

Thanks to a new ultrasound technology developed by CU researchers and used by CU Boulder football, track and field, and basketball players, athletes can now painlessly measure their muscle glycogen levels in real-time in 15 seconds.

Star of David

Holocaust Remembrance Day observed with lecture and exhibit

Jan. 2, 2017

The Program in Jewish Studies will honor International Holocaust Remembrance Day with a public lecture by visiting scholar Professor Nils Roemer and the highly acclaimed international exhibit "Lawyers Without Rights: Jewish Lawyers in Germany Under the Third Reich."

Kaufman

Kaufman named fifth visiting scholar in conservative thought

Dec. 22, 2016

Robert G. Kaufman, a political scientist specializing in American foreign policy, has been named the 2017-18 Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and Policy at CU Boulder.

lemurs

Ring-tailed lemurs of Madagascar: Going, going, gone?

Dec. 20, 2016

The ring-tailed lemur, an iconic primate that is emblematic of the wild and wonderful creatures inhabiting the tropical island of Madagascar, is in big trouble.

tortoise

Studying the distant past in the Galápagos Islands

Dec. 20, 2016

The Galápagos Islands are home to a tremendous diversity of plants and animals found nowhere else in the world. But why this is, and when it all began, remains something of an open question.

marijuana concentrate

Researchers receive state grant to study high-potency marijuana effects

Dec. 19, 2016

Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder’s Institute of Cognitive Science (ICS) have been awarded a $839,500 grant from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) to study the effects of using high-potency cannabis, informally known as “dabbing.”

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