Rachael Fara

Science of the WHOLE Athlete

Nov. 5, 2021

By collecting data on student-athletes’ workouts, nutrition and even classwork, CU Sport Science Research transforms information into results.

Evan Battey

Evan Battey Is the New Mayor of Boulder

Nov. 5, 2021

As the men’s basketball’s longest tenured player this season, L.A. born and raised Evan Battey is ready to lead the team.

King Soopers Shooting memorial at Boulder Creek

Photo: Memorial for King Soopers Victims

July 2, 2021

Artist Michael Grab created 10 temporary stone art installations in Boulder Creek this March.

Workers in front of a house

CU Students Build All-Electric Frisco House and Win Solar Decathlon

July 2, 2021

Since 2017, a team of 30 CU Boulder students and faculty has worked to build an all-electric house in Fraser, Colorado.

a cu boulder student scales a rock wall at the rec center

Sweat Effects

March 18, 2021

Human sweat and bleach cleaners mix to create new airborne chemicals in gyms. A CU study from Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) says this could affect air quality.

Infographic about sun research

Infographic: Beyond the Bluebird Sky

March 18, 2021

With at least eight institutions dedicated to solar and space physics, the city of Boulder is a global mecca for science related to the sun.

illustration by Jeffrey Smith of a plane in front of a skyline

Breath of Fresh Air

March 18, 2021

Jessica Gilman takes to the skies to understand how unprecedented wildfires and the global pandemic are changing the climate and affecting our health. When Colorado went on lockdown last March, Jessica Gilman (PhDChem’06) was in her lab analyzing air samples from wildfire plumes. Gilman had spent the previous summer in...

headshot of Carlton Shield Chief Gover

A Walk in Two Worlds

March 18, 2021

American Indians and archaeologists have had a long and often fractious history. Carlton Shield Chief Gover is trying to change that.

an illustration by Brian Stauffer showing a virus cell above a city skyline with two people looking out their windows.

How to Cope in a Pandemic

March 18, 2021

CU psychology professors share tools to improve mental health amid COVID-19. As the world plunged into the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, Sona Dimidjian knew a parallel and more silent crisis was brewing in mental health. Dimidjian, a CU Boulder psychology professor, immediately saw a trifecta of trouble: COVID-19 disrupted...

a boat in arctic ice

Frozen in Ice, Frozen in Time

March 18, 2021

A CU team froze their ship in Arctic ice in the name of science and storytelling. When the sea ice shifted beneath him, sending a crack straight between his two feet, Matthew Shupe didn’t panic. He calmly looked at his precious scientific equipment — installed only four feet away —...

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