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Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder recently examined the aftermath of two catastrophic conflagrations and found an unexpected ally in wildfire-education efforts, the “citizen entrepreneur.”

Regardless of rainfall or government-built infrastructure, the availability of drinking water in rural Chinese villages varies based on villagers’ ingenuity, “circular migration” patterns, and maintenance of water infrastructure, a University of Colorado graduate student has found.

Scientists are having trouble reproducing each other’s published findings. This growing problem has received national attention and is concerning policymakers, the public and scientists. CU-Boulder biologist Mark Winey is working to solve this problem. As a leader of a task force on the issue, he notes that taxpayers need to know that research dollars are being used wisely and in ways that can lead to clinical solutions.

On June 23, the Women and Gender Studies Program at the University of Colorado Boulder reached a historic milestone, officially becoming the Department of Women and Gender Studies. This change in stature from program to department was the culmination of more than 40 years of hard work by the diligent faculty, students and staff who founded and promoted the program through the years.

To address the increased interest in Nordic studies, a visiting assistant professorship has been added to the program’s faculty, thanks to a co-sponsorship of $180,000 from the Danish Ministry of Education.nordic

As a liberal undergraduate, Todd D. McIntyre planned to study psychology and then attend law school. He didn’t anticipate becoming so fascinated with science, the brain in particular, that he’d completely change his academic trajectory and then launch a successful career in the pharmaceutical industry, where developing treatments for brain pathologies has been his primary focus. As a liberal undergraduate, McIntyre planned to study psychology and then attend law school. He also didn’t anticipate becoming more conservative.

The historic September 2013 storms that triggered widespread flooding across Colorado’s Front Range eroded the equivalent of hundreds or even 1,000 years worth of accumulated sediment from the foothills west of Boulder, researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have discovered.

The vast majority of people living in areas prone to wildfires know they face risk, but they tend to underestimate that risk compared with wildfire professionals.

During the evolution of invertebrates like amphioxus into vertebrates like fish, a remarkable structure appeared: the head. How, exactly, the head evolved has long been a mystery, but scientists postulated that skulls were built from fundamentally new tissue. Now, CU-Boulder research suggests that skull tissue was actually built from existing tissues never before found in invertebrates.

Thomas Edison famously said that genius was “one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.” For the last 77 years, summer work and study in CU-Boulder’s Ketchum Arts and Sciences building inevitably involved sweat. The building had no air conditioning. Thanks to a major renovation, that and many other architectural deficiencies are being corrected.