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  • Le Khac Quyet discovered a population of the endangered Tonkin snub-nosed monkey in 2002 and has since worked to conserve the species. Photo courtesy Le Khac Quyet.
    A University of Colorado Boulder alumnus who found a previously undiscovered population of critically endangered monkeys in Vietnam has won the 2014 Sabin Prize for Excellence in Primate Conservation.
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    The Department of Ethnic Studies this year celebrates the 20th anniversary of its genesis. After a tumultuous beginning, it has grown into a prominent and respected department that has great support from the university administration.
  • Child Learning Center Teacher Amy Thrasher, a speech language pathologist supervisor, is shown in 2006 working with 3-year-old Cameron Cass in the Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences department at CU. CU-Boulder Photo/Casey A. Cass.
    For more than 40 years, the Child Learning Center (CLC) CU-Boulder’s Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences has been helping Boulder County children get the most out of their education. That work will continue thanks in part to a $25,000 grant from the Millennium Trust.
  • Ruth Ellen Kocher
    Today, University of Colorado Boulder English professor Ruth Ellen Kocher is a celebrated poet and professor, but she didn’t get to this point before clearing several obstacles.
  • Professor Jack O. Burns
    A CU-Boulder astrophysicist who aims to probe the origins of the universe from the far side of the moon has been elected vice president of the American Astronomical Society, the group has announced.Jack O. Burns, a University of Colorado Boulder
  • Sandra Q. Firmin
    Sandra Q. Firmin, curator of UB Art Galleries at SUNY Buffalo, has been named the director of the University of Colorado Boulder Art Museum.Firmin will begin as director on April 21, replacing interim director Stephen Martonis.“The CU Art Museum is
  • Stephen Mojzsis on Racetrack Playa in Death Valley, Calif.
    Associate Professor Stephen J. Mojzsis has been recognized for Excellence as Outstanding Teacher for Technology in Teaching by ASSETT.ASSETT, or the Arts and Sciences Support of Education through Technology, is a student-funded group that advocates
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    "I was called many things that I cannot repeat here, but the most professional accusation I received was that I was breaking the laws of thermodynamics. I took that pretty hard,” says College Professor of Distinction
  • This figurine of a dog by an unidentified Chinese artist dates to the Han Dynasty (206 BCE – 220 CE) and was crafted with earthenware with green and iridescent glaze. It is part of a large gift from Warren and Shirley King to the CU Art Museum. Photo by Jeff Wells.
    The University of Colorado Art Museum has recently acquired a significant collection of Burmese and Chinese art ranging from the Neolithic Period through the Song Dynasty. A gift from Warren and Shirley King, this unique collection of jade, bronze, stoneware, earthenware, porcelain, and blackware will be readily available to art historians, scholars of Chinese and Burmese culture, ceramic specialists and archaeologists.
  • Michael Huemer
    Michael Huemer, professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado Boulder, is the winner of the inaugural Adams Prize in Philosophy, which is presented by the Taylor Charitable Trust, in partnership with University of North Carolina’s Program in
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