Clint Talbott

  • George Clooney, center, and Janet Robinson, to his left, pose in Telluride with members of Robinson's CU-Boulder class, part of Libby Arts Residential Academic Program.
    Students seeing stars, learning film in Telluride
    [video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ox9Y2NiNIl4]This video, posted on YouTube, captures a CU student perspective of the Telluride University Seminar at the Telluride Film Festival. This video was created by CU student William Jones, with
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  • Thomas Andrews
    A bird’s (and mule’s) eye view of U.S. history
    Thomas Andrews has a knack for framing American history unconventionally. In his award-winning book “Killing for Coal,” Andrews traced the central role of coal in Colorado’s economic growth, environmental change and social conflict. Now he’s turning
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  • Via the mass media, experts and non-experts offer radically different perspectives, yielding unreasonable confusion and doubt, CU researcher contends
    Who speaks for the climate?
    Via the mass media, experts and non-experts offer radically different perspectives, yielding unreasonable confusion and doubt, CU researcher contends
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  • West African men and women
    Men, women migrate differently
    In West Africa, climate change is reported to have pushed men to migrate north to Europe, by boat, in search of work. In Nepal, logging has prompted some subsistence-farming women to migrate toward more-abundant firewood.
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  • The Panama Canal was constructed in the early 1900s by the U.S. government, which tackled public-health threats to workers in some cases and to some degree. But the narrative is more complex than is sometimes conveyed, a CU historian contends. Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress.
    ‘Pulling the teeth of the tropics’ … for some
    Before the 20th century, the tropics were widely feared as home to dread diseases such as yellow fever and malaria. Building the Panama Canal helped change that view, but the brighter perception didn’t fully match the grittier truth.
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  • Katie Grasha
    In small Colorado town, an academic star is born
    Katie Grasha attended high school in Montrose, a Colorado community nestled in the pastoral Uncompahgre Valley, a place still so rural that its night sky twinkles with stars.Grasha, who recently graduated from the University of Colorado with a
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  • Owen Brian Toon, a professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at the University of Colorado. Photo by Noah Larsen.
    Childhood questions became lifelong quests
    Dinosaurs’ demise, Martian environment and Earth’s climate fascinated Brian Toon as a kid, captivated him as a scientist, and propelled him to a wide-ranging research career marked by a common theme: tiny airborne particlesSince he was a kid, Owen
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  • World culture at CU
    From Mubarak to Mao, CU’s a vanguard of culture, art
    In one corner of campus, an iconic image of Mao Zedung is punctuated with wood screws. In another venue, a leader of the successful uprising in Egypt this year shared her perspective of the “Arab Spring.” These exemplify the “community and culture” that CU fosters, preserves and celebrates.
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  • Painting of cavemen
    Following a ‘Paleo Diet’? Maybe not
    Those who eat like “cavemen” or follow a “Paleo Diet” will get “Neanderthin,” some weight-loss books contend. But scientists are still figuring out what early hominins actually ate. And while the picture is not complete, it is more complex than previously thought.
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  • Students raising hands
    @Maria, we've made #Malvolio look crazy! LOL!
    With the help of a smartphone and Twitter, university collaborators show kids how Shakespeare instructs us on school bullyingThe University of Colorado is pursuing a more-civil society with this simple recipe: Take one Shakespearean play, one group
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