Have you heard the one about the physicist who moonlights as a comedian? When CU Boulder's Robert Karl is not in the lab, he works on jokes and performs in weekly comedy shows.
Troubled by poor air quality since she was a child growing up in Beijing, Zhen Qu’s career studying air pollution has brought her to CU Boulder, earning a doctorate in mechanical engineering, and soon to Harvard University.
Environmental design students returned from a hands-on planning studio last summer in Colombia with a broadened perspective of life in a marginalized community. Two students share their life-changing experience.
Josh Tacca, a doctoral student in mechanical engineering, worked with prosthetists in Quito, Ecuador, last summer making prosthetic sockets using a 3D scanner and recycled plastic bottles.
There’s a lot we don't know about America’s small places. Researchers are looking to develop the first systematic understanding of the sociodemographic and economic characteristics and patterns of change in small rural places over time.
Leslie Blood has developed accountability seminars to help graduate students feel more grounded as they transition from structured classroom work and research to writing a dissertation.
On the 30th anniversary of being awarded the 1989 Nobel Prize in chemistry, CU Boulder Distinguished Professor Tom Cech shares his thoughts on a distinguished career.
An undergraduate in civil engineering with a passion for photography helped build a footbridge for a community in the Hhohho region of Eswatini and documented it through photographs.
To understand how to keep rangeland ecosystems working in the face of climate uncertainty, graduate student Julie Larson is studying how grassland vegetation responds to rainfall and grazing manipulations.
