Clint Talbott

  • Gerard Dillehay, a CU student, suffered a traumatic brain injury in a bicycle accident. He has received support from the Colorado Traumatic Brain Injury Trust Fund, a fund that CU Associate Professor Theresa Hernandez was instrumental in creating. Photo by Noah Larsen.
    CU student one of thousands helped by state Traumatic Brain Injury Trust Fund that enterprising CU neuroscientist helped set up.
  • Tim Seastedt
    As startling claims about knapweed’s virulence are retracted, CU researchers show that weed-eating bugs can help control invasive species without herbicides.
  • Clouds over the ocean
    CU team finds first conclusive evidence of climate-relevant gases over the remote Pacific Ocean, but why those gases exist where they do is a mystery.
  • People sitting in a living room
    Conventional wisdom suggests that average citizens hate politics, balk at voting even in presidential-election years and are, incidentally, woefully ill-informed. A new study by a team of researchers that includes a CU professor refutes that notion.
  • Various students in the classroom
    As the ‘gathering storm’ in science and math education approaches ‘Category 5’ and imperils American competitiveness, CU students rush inRyan O’Block had been considering a career in K-12 teaching since high school, but when he signed up to become
  • Lake
    But is NASA’s finding truly a previously undiscovered form of ‘weird life’ on Earth? Many scientists, including some noted experts at CU, have doubtsThe New York Times, NASA and the prestigious journal Science announced startling news recently. “
  • Grace Fleming van Sweringen Baur in her Boulder home. Photo courtesy of Carnegie Branch Library for Local History.
    Grace Fleming van Sweringen Baur chaired the University of Colorado Department of Germanic Languages from 1909 to 1930, when her sudden death ended her tireless service. Hoping to immortalize his wife and her legacy, her grieving husband endowed a
  • In 2006, after testing positive for HIV and seeing her CD4 count drop to 159 (from a normal level of about 1,000), Penina Petro started on the road to better health with the help of the medications she received from Sekotoure Hospital, Tanzania, under Global HIV/AIDS Program funding. In 2001-02, CU Professor Keith Maskus helped launch a similar program while serving as lead economist in the Development Research Group at the World Bank. Photo by U.S. Health Resources and Services Adminitration.
    While stronger intellectual-property laws help economies in rich and poor nations, access to medicine is another issue; CU economist has done groundbreaking work in both areasIn 2006, after testing positive for HIV and seeing her CD4 count drop to
  • Masculine male
    Effect is more pronounced among women partnered with less-masculine-looking men, researchers find; male intelligence shows no such effectWhen their romantic partners are not quintessentially masculine, women in their fertile phase are more likely to
  • Caitlin Epple and Kyle Metcalf pose before going to their high-school prom.
    Caitlin Epple and Kyle Metcalf were bursting with energy, love and promise. Now, those photographs are a testament to two lives lived very well and done too soon.
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