An angry twitter bird

A billion tweets suggest Trump rhetoric didn’t boost Twitter hate

March 22, 2021

CU Boulder political scientist says study underscores the importance of analyzing big datasets to test conventional wisdom.

Agriculture

Heat waves could cause 10 times more crop damage than now projected, research finds

March 16, 2021

Work by economists has implications for climate change adaptation in agriculture.

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Research on coral-reef vulnerability wins top recognition

March 15, 2021

Mike Gil, a CU Boulder marine biologist, led research now honored by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Woman working with a child on her lap

Why do men publish more papers than women? Motherhood plays key role

March 12, 2021

In the years after female faculty members have children, their productivity––in terms of papers published––drops 20 percent. Male faculty see no such decline. Researchers say different roles in parenting are likely to blame and the gap could have long-term impacts on higher education.

American Bushtit at Carpinteria salt marsh

Extinction cascading through ecosystems could spell trouble for humans

March 11, 2021

Ecosystem services might be more vulnerable to extinction than previously thought, new study finds.

Police presence during a protest

Nationwide search finds no evidence of ‘Ferguson effect’

March 10, 2021

CU Boulder researcher finds Black Lives Matter protests linked with fewer police killings of Black people.

Liquid water

Physicist wins top award for research at Large Hadron Collider

March 9, 2021

ATLAS award recognizes dissertation work investigating quark-gluon plasma.

 light sheet microscopy

CU Boulder scientists win $1.2M for cutting-edge microscopy center

March 4, 2021

New center will be ‘truly paradigm shifting for life scientists and engineers across campus.'

communication

Speech-language pathologist fosters communication in hard cases

March 3, 2021

Program launched by speech-language pathologist (and musician) helps kids with complex communication needs and is taking flight.

An image of a riot in progress

Mathematician wins top award for research on complex models

Feb. 24, 2021

CU Boulder’s Nancy Rodriguez aims to mathematize complex models in criminology, economics and ecology.

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