Full List of News Stories

This video, posted on YouTube, captures a CU student perspective of the Telluride University Seminar at the Telluride Film Festival. This video was created by CU student William Jones, with contributions from student Stephen Kuhn. For the second year running, some University of Colorado students have gotten a front-row lesson...

In 1966, the Soviet Union promised to do all it could to reunite Soviet Jews with relatives living outside the Communist nation. The pledge was hollow. In much of America, Jewish immigrants struggled. But they found help in Boulder, and that history is being preserved.

A new study of twins led by the University of Colorado Boulder shows that today’s smokers are more strongly influenced by genetic factors than in the past and that the influence makes it more difficult for them to quit. “In the past, when smoking rates were higher, people smoked for...

A team of researchers led by the University of Colorado Boulder has discovered the first prehistoric bronze artifact made from a cast ever found in Alaska, a small, buckle-like object found in an ancient Eskimo dwelling and which likely originated in East Asia. The artifact consists of two parts —...

Dinosaurs’ demise, Martian environment and Earth’s climate fascinated Brian Toon as a kid, captivated him as a scientist, and propelled him to a wide-ranging research career marked by a common theme: tiny airborne particles Since he was a kid, Owen Brian Toon has puzzled over “weird problems”: What killed the...

As headlines blare that “College is a waste of time” and “Degree not worth debt,” new college students might enter academia with skepticism and eye the flagging economy with wariness. But the University of Colorado Boulder and its humanities departments are not idling while Rome burns. Artists and humanists at...

CU student one of thousands helped by state Traumatic Brain Injury Trust Fund that enterprising CU neuroscientist helped set up.

Beth Osnes, CU associate professor of theatre and dance, hugs Zinet, an Ethiopian woman. Their lives weave a human tapestry through a new movie, "Mother: Caring Our Way Out of the Population Dilemma." Two large families, two distant worlds, two women who break tradition. Thereby hangs a tale. Beth Osnes...

Rabbi Zalman Schacter-Shalomi was born in Poland, grew up in Austria, fled Nazi oppression in Europe, was ordained in Chabad Lubavitch Hasidism in America, and launched a new hybrid of Judaism for the world. Reb Zalman, as he is commonly known, founded the Jewish Renewal movement in the 1960s. Described...

As film’s silent era came to a close, it took with it location-based shooting and, thus, wilderness landscapes. The new sound-recording equipment was too cumbersome and delicate to travel outside the controlled confines of a studio. It wasn’t until after World War II that wilderness landscapes and location-based shooting began...