Clint Talbott

  • Professor David Shneer, left, shares a word with people who attended a gathering of Soviet veterans and Soviet Holocaust survivors last month. Photo courtesy of the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Educational Center.
    CU-Boulder’s David Shneer is known for his historical research on photojournalists who chronicled the Holocaust in World War II Soviet Union; they witnessed and recorded the slaughter of Soviet citizens including those who, like the photographers themselves, were Jewish. Now, Shneer is curating an exhibition of the photographs in Illinois that appears in English and, for the first time, Russian. Soviet Holocaust survivors and Soviet WWII veterans have responded favorably.
  • Oman rock
    Alexis Templeton, associate professor of geological sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder, leads a team of scientists who recently landed a $7 million, five-year grant from NASA to study “rock-powered life.”
  • Le Khac Quyet discovered a population of the endangered Tonkin snub-nosed monkey in 2002 and has since worked to conserve the species. Photo courtesy Le Khac Quyet.
    A University of Colorado Boulder alumnus who found a previously undiscovered population of critically endangered monkeys in Vietnam has won the 2014 Sabin Prize for Excellence in Primate Conservation.
  • “We really like the innovation that happens when some goofball from Nederland talks to a restaurateur that talks to a coder that talks to a politico, and then you put an idea or concept in the middle, and you can get a fresh aggregate of opinion on what you could do to build that concept,” says CU alumnus Ryan Ferrero. Photo: iStockphoto.
    Ryan Ferrero helps startup businesses find success through Ignyte Lab, which helps entrepreneurs take their business to the next level.
  • Baby in doctor's arms
    CU-Boulder researchers demonstrated that early identification and treatment were key to helping children remain in the normal cognitive range and helped launch nationwide adoption of universal newborn screening.
  • Screenshot of the Mindful Mood Balance online web training program.
    Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy, which has been shown to help people avoid recurring bouts of depression, can be delivered effectively online and could be more effective than traditional forms of therapy, a team of researchers led by CU-Boulder psychologists has found.
  • Laptop screen of Greek course
    For the past two summers, the University of Colorado Boulder has offered a concentrated online course that immerses students in ancient Greek, allowing them to take two semesters of Greek—and study an entire Greek textbook—in 10 weeks.
  • Mathis Habich, a graduate student in physics (standing in front of screen), gives a presentation to a full house on the top floor of the Gamow Tower as part of the CU-Prime Talks series, which introduce undergraduate students to the day-to-day lives of researchers.
    Graduate students at the University of Colorado Boulder have launched a program designed to promote inclusion among under-represented groups in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics—or STEM—majors.
  • Tumuli at Gordion
    At Gordion, one of the most important archaeological sites in the Near East, remains of antiquity’s dead breathe more life into professor’s scholarship and classrooms.
  • How old are your arteries?
    Your chronological age might not yield the answer. CU-Boulder researchers are studying ways to reverse arterial aging, linked to the leading cause of mortality in America. I spent 12 weeks in a clinical study of a carbohydrate that might reverse arterial aging. Here’s what I learned… (This story includes a video report.)
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