Clint Talbott

Nicole Gibson’s grandparents set aside money for her college. She’s keenly aware of her good fortune. Now she’s paying it forward.Gibson is a 2004 environmental-studies graduate of the University of Colorado who began funding a scholarship in 2005.

With a lot of help from Jane Butcher and many othersJane Butcher (center) works with students and staff to prepare for the 61st annual Conference on World Affairs. The conference begins April 6th, and is comprised of more than 200 sessions.In 1963,

Mountain Research Station chief expands understanding of alpine environmentsBill Bowman on Niwot Ridge near the Continental Divide. A caption accompanying this picture on Bowman's web site says, "My field office - where work really gets done."Bill

Genes increasing risk for mental disorders should have been weeded out of the gene pool. Why haven’t they been?Schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and other mental disorders usually appear by the time the sufferers are in their reproductive prime, and

Collaborating couple pursues next generation of lasersWhen the first functioning laser was unveiled in 1960, people had no idea it would be used for surgery, let alone in bar-code readers and CD players. Experts speculated that the new device might

They are instructive today, historian saysWorld War I shattered the people and the collective psyche of Great Britain, but the war’s end did not stop the strife or suffering. Between 1918 and 1931, the shell-shocked people and their nation sought to

Surprising similarities between divergent groups, but old stereotypes persist, researcher saysThough they express their sexuality in starkly different ways, evangelical Christian men and goth men share a startling amount of common ground in their “

The Cold War is history, and major nuclear powers are slashing their arsenals. No rational leader would start a nuclear war. And even if India and Pakistan traded a few nuclear bombs, conventional wisdom suggests, most of the world wouldn’t suffer

First was a riddle: Why did Maxentius, the last pagan emperor of Rome, never occupy his 80-acre villa outside the great city? Then came a different mystery, then evidence spawning new questions. A CU team leads the painstaking search for answers.

Leading thinkers and researchers at CU are helping society understand what we know about climate change, how well we know it, what the future might hold, and how the world should react.