Campus News

Professor Thomas T. Veblen will deliver a Distinguished Research Lecture titled "Wildfire regime shifts in Patagonian-Andean forest ecosystems: Feedbacks and consequences in the face of climate and land-use changes" April 25.

After months of brainstorming, envisioning and bringing their ideas to light, five teams have made it to the New Venture Challenge Championship, to be held Thursday, April 6.

A University of Colorado Boulder team has entered into a five-year, $4.5-million cooperative agreement with NASA to become part of a virtual institute to pursue the construction of astronomical observatories on the moon.

The new 'RIO Bulletin' is part of a streamlined communication strategy ensuring members of the CU Boulder research community can easily find critical information about research funding opportunities and related research support resources.

Arctic sea ice was at a record low maximum extent for the third straight year, according to scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) and NASA.

CIRES director Waleed Abdelati hosts and narrates "The Crowd and the Cloud," a new documentary series focusing on citizen science. The series premieres Thursday, April 6.

The Research & Innovation Office is hosting a reception on March 21 to recognize Caroline Himes, director of the Office of Industry Collaboration, who is retiring after 19 years of serving in various roles across the university.

The new Center for the Study of Origins, a Grand Challenge initiative, provides "an interdisciplinary nexus for humanists, social scientists and natural scientists to engage in exciting and inspirational opportunities to address origins theories from a variety of perspectives," says Provost Russell Moore.

What do lawyers, military experts, poets, artists and ethicists and scientists have to say about drones? Find out at the March 3-4 “Policy, Ethics and the Future of Drones” symposium. It's free and open to the public.

CU Boulder researchers have developed a functional MRI-based model that identifies brain activity patterns involved in varied pain experiences.