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A really gutsy piece of journalism on police response to death of woman

March 15, 2024

This year’s Nakkula Award for Police Reporting goes to Andy Mannix and the Minnesota Star Tribune for a story that, as one judge put it, “a lot of newsrooms would have run screaming away from.”

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Climate change matters to more and more people, could be a deciding factor in the election

March 15, 2024

Research shows that climate change had a significant effect on voting choices in the 2016 and 2020 elections—and could also influence the 2024 presidential race. Read from CU expert Matt Burgess on The Conversation.

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The power and possibilities of intertwining healing justice and education

March 12, 2024

Women of color reported experiences such as these to the co-founders of the Healing, Empowerment and Love project: “Don’t let them see you cry—it will make you seem weak;” and “I tended to my body only when it could no longer carry me.” The project is exploring ways educators can interlace healing justice with education.

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CU Boulder researchers advance electronic technologies

March 12, 2024

CU Boulder researchers have introduced a new approach that leverages light and integrated photonics to generate microwave signals that could enable entirely new capabilities in communications, navigation and sensing.

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Water in the West: Documenting the change

March 8, 2024

RJ Sangosti and Elliot Ross, former and current Ted Scripps Fellows at CU Boulder’s Center for Environmental Journalism, use photography to show immediate and long-term water concerns through the rapidly changing Western landscape.

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Early childhood health interventions have ‘big, multi-generation impacts,’ research finds

March 8, 2024

Associate Professor Tania Barham’s research suggests that it doesn’t take much to help give impoverished people a better start to life.

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‘Missing’ houses offer a new perspective on Britain’s Roman period

March 8, 2024

A population estimate considering now-decomposed wooden houses suggests that Silchester, England, may have been typical of towns across the Roman Empire, CU Boulder researcher finds.

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Pollution to production: Student startup transforms CO2 into aerospace hardware

March 8, 2024

Spencer Dansereau, a doctoral student in aerospace at CU Boulder, is building a business that could turn air pollution into a useable product.

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CU Boulder researchers tackle HIV-related cognitive decline

March 8, 2024

Assistant professors Kayla Sprenger and Laurel Hind are on a collaborative mission to explore solutions for mitigating cognitive decline in individuals living with HIV. This decline can be caused by both the virus itself and antiretroviral drugs.

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High-energy laser weapons: How they work, what they are used for

March 7, 2024

Militaries around the world are rapidly developing science fiction-like laser weapons, motivated in part by the growing threat from swarms of drones. Read from CU defense expert Iain Boyd on the Conversation.

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