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Reprinted from Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine In his upcoming book, ‘Hoof Beats: How Horses Shaped Human History,’ William Taylor writes that today’s world has been molded by humans’ relationship to horses Nearly a million years ago in what is now southern England, human ancestors called Homo heidelbergensis were creating...

Huge congratulations to Dr. Seema Sohi for receiving the prestigious Andrew Carnegie Fellowship ! The Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program provides philanthropic support for scholarship in the humanities and social sciences that addresses important and enduring issues confronting our society. The award is for a period of up to two years...

Reprinted from Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine Tania Barham’s research suggests that it doesn’t take much to give impoverished people a better start to life It was the late ‘90s, and Tania Barham , future associate professor of economics at the University of Colorado Boulder, was in Yemen, working as...

Lauren Collins from the Center for Asian Studies has been awarded a Research & Innovation Office (RIO) Arts & Humanities Grant for her project " Enhancing Archiving Practices of Western Colonial-era Photographs of Southeast Asia (1850s-1950s) in American Academic Libraries." This project aims to make colonial-era photographs of Southeast Asia...

When Joy Yamaguchi graduates from the University of Colorado Boulder’s College of Music next week with a Doctor of Musical Arts degree (violin performance + Music Theory Certificate), the work she started here will continue well beyond her official stint as a student. “I’m looking forward to further developing the...

On March 11, representatives from Japan and Colorado came together at the Japan-Colorado Business Seminar, presented by the Leeds School of Business in partnership with the Denver Consulate-General of Japan. Panelists and presenters discussed the strengthening economic ties between Japan and Colorado and how they are thriving. Vijay Khatri, the...

In April of 2024, The CU Mediterranean Studies Group invited Muhammad U. Faruque of the University of Cincinnati to CU Boulder. Dr. Faruque is a philosopher whose research lies at the intersection of philosophy, science, and environmental studies, especially in relation to the Islamic intellectual tradition. The CU Mediterranean Studies...

Gail Nelson, a career intelligence officer and CU Boulder alumnus, advised Afghan military intelligence leaders after the United States drove the Taliban from power It’s been almost three years since the Afghanistan government fell to the Taliban, and with the passage of time some have come to believe that America’s...

Spring is go time for climbers who hope to summit Mount Everest, Earth’s highest peak above sea level. Hundreds of mountaineers from around the world travel to Asia in April and May, headed for base camps in Nepal and Tibet. But jagged peaks won’t be the only thing they see...

More than 150 years ago, some 15,000 Chinese workers arrived in the U.S. to help construct the country’s first transcontinental railroad, which connected the West Coast with the East Coast’s rail network. These Chinese laborers received lower wages than their white counterparts for the same job and endured worse living...