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Should Your Child Take Melatonin?

March 4, 2024

CU Boulder study says long-term effects and safety of the supplement are unknown.

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Megan Patterson’s Outdoor Preschool Blends Nature and Education

Nov. 5, 2021

Worldmind in Denver is Colorado’s first licensed outdoor preschool.

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Are Our Kids Tech Obsessed?

March 18, 2021

CU research finds technology use in children and teens may not be as dire as many assume. Kids growing up in the mobile internet era have heard it all, often uttered by well-meaning parents fearing too much screen time could spur lasting problems. But a series of studies by CU Boulder sociology professor Stefanie Mollborn suggests such fears may be overblown.

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Pluter and the Spectacular Spaceship

March 9, 2021

A children's book about compound interest.

Michael Atkins

Sweeping Changes

June 1, 2020

After moving up the ranks from custodian to principal, Michael Atkins has his sights set on an even broader goal– transforming the education system.

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The Cryptid Keeper

Nov. 11, 2019

by Lija Fisher (Thtr'97) (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 320 pages; 2019) Buy the Book Life has gotten complicated for thirteen-year-old Clivo Wren. After taking up his deceased father’s mission to find the extraordinary creature whose blood grants everlasting life, Clivo is spending his summer not at camp or hanging out...

Beverly Kingston

Stop the Violence

March 1, 2018

Beverly Kingston directs CU Boulder’s Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence (CSPV).