Clint Talbott

Emeritus professor was ‘interdisciplinary’ before it was coolIn academic circles, the term “interdisciplinary” may be jargon, but it is also one measure of scholarly excellence. “Interdisciplinary” studies strive to make sense of the world through

For many years, faculty members in the University of Colorado’s Department of Psychology and Neuroscience and other departments have been asking questions about how the brain works.  Now, undergraduates at the University of Colorado will have

Catalan is a romance language spoken in four European countries: Spain, France, Italy and the Principality of Andorra. Catalan people feel deep pride in their culture and language, a fact that will be conveyed in courses taught at the University of

In the fall of 1980, Ken Bickers was working in a Washington, D.C., political office. He’d come to the nation’s capital as part of a not-for-profit internship program, and the experience augured his career.

When Stefanie Mollborn asks her students how many teen-agers will get pregnant, they guess low. That’s because in college students’ circles, teen pregnancy is rare. Only 2 percent of teen mothers later earn a college degree, the U.S. Census Bureau reports.

Roger Pielke Jr. boils it down to a question: How long will the world embrace climate policies that have failed? More precisely, when will it embrace policies that are more likely to lower greenhouse-gas emissions and meet the world’s energy demand?

Douglas R. Seals has amassed scientific evidence indicating that exercise, weight loss, good nutrition, including salt restriction, can cut your chances of getting cardiovascular disease. Now he’s researching pills that might have the same effect.

CU scholars eye the next frontier of Renaissance literary criticismThe disappearing bison of the 19th century appear far, far removed from Hamlet, prince of Denmark. But Heather James sees a connection, and it is a variation on a theme of

Only eight months after the tsunami, permanent houses had been provided for victims in the southern town of Hambantota, shown here, the home district of Sri Lanka's president. Tamils and Muslims on the eastern and northern coasts waited up to five

CU alum Josette Sheeran, the executive director of the U.N. World Food Programme, is on a mission to fight world hunger one cup at a time.