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Through the eyes of the inmates

Feb. 27, 2020

An unprecedented study reported in a new book from a CU Boulder professor pulls back the curtain on prison gangs.

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Scholarship created in memory of sociology instructor Matthew Brown

Jan. 16, 2020

The Matthew C. Brown Scholarship Fund has been created in his memory.

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CU Boulder research to focus on often-overlooked rural America

Oct. 4, 2019

Rural America the focus of two new projects funded by the National Institutes of Health and U.S. Department of Agriculture.

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Getting beyond quick fixes on big social problems

Aug. 19, 2019

Map the System competition encourages CU Boulder students to deeply understand social challenges before pitching solutions.

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Grant-writing boot camp pays off for social sciences

June 11, 2019

Four workshop participants win big National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

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The tragedy of the ‘Tragedy of the Commons’

Feb. 19, 2019

On the 50th anniversary of Garrett Hardin’s influential essay, the director of the CU Population Center contends he missed the mark.

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$3M center to support rapid-response research of natural disasters

Jan. 4, 2019

The National Science Foundation has granted CU Boulder $3 million to develop a new center that will bring together social scientists, natural scientists and engineers to conduct rapid-response research of natural hazards.

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Five professors honored by peers for significant achievements

Sept. 18, 2018

Five professors in the College of Arts and Sciences have won the 2018 Provost’s Faculty Achievement Award.

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The paradox of 'suicide in happy places' seems not to exist

Aug. 18, 2018

A closer look at geographic data finds no correlation between generally happy locales and rates of suicide, according to research by CU Boulder and U of California Irvine.

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To confront wildfire risk, experts get social

April 9, 2018

A team of wildfire practitioners and researchers—including some from the University of Colorado Boulder—is working across Colorado to better understand the human role in local wildfire mitigation.

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