Clint Talbott

“Nature teaches beasts to know their friends,” wrote Shakespeare. In humans, nature may be less than half of the story, a team led by University of Colorado Boulder researchers has found.

While descending Cathedral Spire in Yosemite Valley, Richard Laver lost his route. But after a night stranded on a ledge in darkness, he found an answer that had eluded mathematicians for two decades.

A CU-Boulder anthropologist and a collaborator from Florida have won a $230,000 grant to examine the role of religion in the social and political innovations that led to the emergence of Mesoamerican civilization.

CU undergraduate student named as co-author alongside Tom Cech and Leslie Leinwand on groundbreaking paper published in the prestigious journal Nature.

Not just anyone can vividly trace a thread weaving through a zebra’s stripes, a partly crumbling brick wall, a Jackson Pollock painting, a Mozart piano sonata, Dr. Seuss’ “Fox in Socks,” Gwendolyn Brooks’ “We Real Cool,” and even a rap duet by Mos Def and Slick Rick.

Elisabeth Sheffield, associate professor of English, won a $25,000 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship in Prose this year. Photo by Noah Larsen.In each of the past two years, a CU-Boulder faculty member has won a Creative Writing Fellowship from the

CU Boulder students engage in conversation while studying abroad in China. The program to send students abroad to China has been buoyed by a $1.2 million gift from the Tang Fund of New York. This group was led by journalism Professor Meg Moritz in

CU-Boulder has hired its first Colorado Chair in Environmental Studies, an endowed chair awarded to Daniel Doak, a conservation biologist known for his quantitative analysis of how different government policies could affect the populations of species ranging from sea otters, California condors, corals, and rare plants.

Hip-hop music could turn young people on to higher education, perhaps even persuade them to study at the University of Colorado Boulder.

In February, Clare Boland and her professor, Rebecca Safran of ecology and evolutionary biology, are guest speakers in a new course at the University of Colorado Boulder that aims to explore innovative, creative and effective ways to convey climate-change science and its implications. That course, called “Inside the Greenhouse,” is team-taught by two faculty members: Beth Osnes and Maxwell Boykoff from theatre and dance and environmental studies, respectively.