Research Report

With a wide range of social justice concerns making headlines daily and the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbating many of them, CU Boulder researchers and perspectives informed and shaped deliberations about the most important issues of our times.

Among the burdens on rural America are significantly poorer public health, higher incidents of teen pregnancy, lower education levels and higher prescription rates for narcotics.

Access to Medicaid can boost a family’s savings, potentially offering new paths out of poverty, according to research from CU Boulder’s Leeds School of Business.

Literature is often touted as creating a more just and empathetic world—but what happens when it doesn’t?

In Spring 2020, an ambitious partnership brought together the College of Music’s Entrepreneurship Center for Music, CU Boulder’s Renée Crown Wellness Institute, Boulder Community Health, Children's Hospital of Colorado and Carnegie Hall.

Fifteenth-century woodcuts, Catholic Church plenary indulgences, a 3D characterization of a New York City subway.

For more than 40 years, visitors have flocked to the CU Museum of Natural History to catch a glimpse of one big dinosaur specimen: the fossil skull of an ancient Triceratops that’s nearly the size of a Mini Cooper.

Assistant Professor Kaushik Jayaram has developed a robot that can just about squeeze onto the surface of a penny and weighs far less than a paperclip while still being able to carry up to 10 times its own weight.

Behold the “super-puff” worlds of the Kepler 51 star system.

Aging satellites and space debris crowd low-Earth orbit, and launching new satellites adds to the collision risk.