Olympics fans

Carrying a torch for country and sports

July 25, 2024

As the 2024 Olympics begin in Paris, CU Boulder scholar Jared Bahir Browsh considers how nationalism can inform and influence the games.

Heather Stewart and book cover of Microaggressions in Medicine

Prescribing kindness in modern medicine

July 23, 2024

In her new book, Microaggressions in Medicine, CU Boulder alum and bioethicist Heather Stewart writes that some healthcare professionals are causing emotional and psychological harm.

collage of Paris landmarks

As it has for centuries, Paris beguiles and beckons

July 19, 2024

With the 2024 Olympics set to open, CU Boulder professor Aimee Kilbane ponders Americans’ long love affair with the City of Light.

A woodcarving depicting the Black Death in Italy

We fear them like the plague

July 18, 2024

After a human case of bubonic plague was confirmed in Pueblo County last week, CU Boulder scholar Thora Brylowe explores why it and all plagues inspire such terror.

Disappointed Colorado Rockies fans

Loving the losing baseball team

July 15, 2024

In advance of Tuesday’s Major League Baseball All-Star game, CU Boulder history professor Martin Babicz offers thoughts on why some fans remain loyal to baseball’s perennial losers.

Lyndon Johnson signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964

60 years after the Civil Rights Act, ‘the activism continues’

July 2, 2024

CU Boulder scholar Ashleigh Lawrence-Sanders reflects on what has and hasn’t changed since 1964.

illustration of oxygen molecules

Separating gases is hard but might get easier, researchers find

June 27, 2024

In newly published study, CU Boulder chemist Wei Zhang details a new porous material that is less expensive and more sustainable.

Green hummingbird feeding at orange flower

How to ID thieving hummingbirds? Look at their feet

June 25, 2024

CU Boulder researcher analyzes 50 years of data to show the relationship between certain birds’ unorthodox behavior and their traits.

Dream Lake in Rocky Mountain National Park

Balancing fraught history and modern collaboration in America’s ‘best idea’

June 24, 2024

In new book, CU Boulder scholar Brooke Neely explores pathways to uphold Native sovereignty in U.S. national parks.

3D pie chart on numbers graph

When economies falter, governors respond similarly, regardless of party

June 20, 2024

Political scientists find that partisan divide shrinks among governors who are responding to economic downturns.

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