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Author Archives: Clay Evans
Flying in the face of cancer
Cancer is the country’s No. 2 killer, following heart disease. Professor Tin Tin Su is working to develop powerful new tools in the fight against the deadly disease.
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Reaping the wind
Wind power? Big deal.Really, really big deal, in fact.
Consider that scientists are now pondering construction of leviathan, 20-megawatt wind turbines some 190 meters high — basically two football fields — with swooping 125-meter rotor blades.
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WWII – Women at war
When Tom Brokaw wrote his paean to the Greatest Generation, he left them out. Filmmaker Ken Burns skipped them when he documented The War. They are the estimated 100,000 women who joined the military during World War II.
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A man’s man
Sportsman Tred Barta (A&S ex’74), pictured above, has overcome a paralyzing stroke to make his hunting and fishing show more popular than ever.
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Losing President John F. Kennedy
Former Secret Service agent Gerald Blaine (Bus’59) breaks his silence to share memories of his job protecting Kennedy.
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Happily ever after?
Two professors embark on research to uncover people’s perceptions of those who acquire things versus experiences.
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The world by road
When Toyota and Stevinson Toyota, a Denver dealership, and other businesses decided to underwrite Steve Bouey’s (PolSci’99, MPubAd’01) and Steve Shoppman’s (Fin’00) ambitious plan to literally drive around the world, they were probably looking for a little positive public relations.
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Tagged Africa, Arctic Circle, Argentina, Australia, Indonesia, Mongolia, New Zealand, South Africa, Steve Bouey, Steve Shoppman, toyota, world
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Where the Oscars roam
Sarah Siegel-Magness (Bus’95) never doubted the decision to turn the controversial young-adult book Push: A Novel (Vintage) into the Oscar-winning film Precious, despite widespread skepticism that the story’s gut-punching realism would find an audience.
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Tagged academy award, oscar, precious, Push, Sarah Siegel-Magness
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Dialing for dignitaries
What would Howard Higman (Art’31, MSoc’42) have done with a cell phone? The late CU sociology professor, best known as founding maestro of the annual Conference on World Affairs, never had anything but a land line at his home on 11th Street in Boulder, but he surely would have loved an iPhone or Blackberry.
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Tagged Biden, Boutte, Don Grusin, Ebert, Fuller, Hinojosa, Howard Higman, Kissinger, Krauthammer, Maura Clare, Roosevelt
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CU’s hoozat helps you figure out who’s that
You’ve just wandered into a party and there, through the haze, you see him — movie-star gorgeous, hip, laid-back, just your type. But who knows? So instead of approaching him, you take out your iPhone and in seconds you’re scanning Mr. Right’s — or Ms. Right’s, as the case may be — Facebook profile. Freshly armed with that information, you can now decide if you want to cross the room and introduce yourself.
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