Alena Grabowski

Blade Runners

June 1, 2018

CU’s Alena Grabowski is helping a new generation of amputee athletes reimagine what’s possible.

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Life After Death on the Internet

March 1, 2018

As our lives go digital, Jed Brubaker is studying what happens to all that data after we die.

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Behind the Bars

Sept. 1, 2017

A CU professor goes inside America's prisons to study gang life.

teenager

Mysteries of the Teenage Brain

June 1, 2017

Teenagers and young adults think and act differently from grownups. CU scientist Marie Banich is helping us see why.

Daniel B. Smith

Ambassador Daniel B. Smith

Dec. 1, 2015

When Daniel B. Smith (Hist’77) became U.S. Ambassador to Greece in 2010 he embraced an honor that was also the greatest challenge of his career.

Reatea Kifletsion and Lidia Feseha

Addis in Aurora

March 1, 2015

Together, Ethiopians and Eritreans make up one of the largest immigrant groups in Colorado — and an ambitious bunch at CU.

Lenny and Sara Martinelli

Dynamic (Organic) Duo

Sept. 1, 2014

In the farm-to-table movement, Boulder restaurateurs-turned-farmers Lenny and Sara Martinelli walk the talk.

blind boy in South Sudan

Peace in Sight

June 1, 2014

A medical mission to South Sudan, home to the world’s highest rates of blindness, opens Jordan Campbell’s eyes to a new direction — exposing the human toll of international conflict to wide audiences and cultivating the “global steward” in himself.

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Deadly Eruption

Dec. 1, 2013

When the Earth took a turn for the worse in A.D. 536, what was to blame? Anthropology professor Payson Sheets thinks the answer lies in a plastic bag.

Joaquin Espinosa

Finding Genes That Fit

Sept. 1, 2013

Ask Joaquin Espinosa what he sees as the key to curing cancer, and he answers with a blend of ancient Chinese philosophy and cutting-edge genetics.

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