News Headlines
- The April 30, 1975, fall of Saigon marked the end of the Vietnam War. CU Boulder scholar Vilja Hulden discusses the war, its beginnings and what we've learned.
- Campus Dining & Hospitality makes it easy for students, faculty, staff and visitors to find nutritious options with convenient locations across campus. Here's where you can find food on campus this summer.
- Assistant Professor Longji Cui and his team have developed a new technique that allows them to measure phonon interference inside of a tiny molecule. They believe, one day, this discovery can revolutionize how heat dissipation is managed in future electronics and materials.
- In 1972, a Soviet lander known as Kosmos 482 launched for Venus. It never made it past Earth's gravity, and now the spacecraft is coming back.
- The Leeds School of Business program makes CU Boulder the first U.S. public university in Breakthrough Energy Discovery’s global network, joining MIT and Stanford.
- Recycling is extremely difficult for objects built with more than one type of plastic. Michael Rivera and the Utility Research Lab team have developed a novel way to disassemble 3D-printed objects for easy recycling.
- CIRES-led research found evidence that dense portions of Earth's lithosphere (its top layer of rock) are peeling off and dropping into the mantle below the Sierra Nevada mountains.
- Ending all funding for NPR and PBS would unravel a U.S. public media system that took a century to build—the precursors of which consisted of professors giving lectures on history and finance. Read from CU expert Josh Shepperd on The Conversation.
- CU Boulder researcher Carla Jones finds that what Indonesian women wear in court can convey messages of piety and shame—or at least the appearance of these qualities.
- New research uses firefly flashing patterns to identify species and what they're communicating. Read from CU experts Orit Peleg and Owen Martin on The Conversation.