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Why inject a vaccine when you can inhale it?
A revolutionary inhalable vaccine developed at CU for measles prevention could lead to other inexpensive, easy-to-administer vaccines and save thousands of lives throughout the world.
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Professor helps Parkinson’s patients project properly
a special vocal therapy program developed by CU-Boulder professor Lorraine Ramig of speech, language and hearing science is helping Parkinson’s patients recover their voices.
Read moreWhy the sundial faces north
It was Christmas in July around here this year, but the gods are still angry. (More about that in a moment.) Just before July 4 President Obama announced that Abound Solar, a company that makes state-of-the-art solar panels at a plant in Longmont, would get a $400 million loan guarantee that, among other things, will [...]
Read moreCampus gun ban draws fire
CU has no authority to prevent people from carrying concealed weapons on campus, according to an April ruling by the Colorado Court of Appeals, which set off a campus debate regarding guns.
Read moreLife on Mars?
Mars may have been home to an ocean and microbial life, according to CU scientists Brian Hynek and Gaetano Di Achille. The LASP researchers studied the elevations of several dried-up river deltas on Mars and found that 17 of 52 of the deltas lie at similar elevations.
Read moreNew class news
An estimated 5, 200 students arrived on campus in August — a substantial number but 300 fewer than last year’s freshman class, despite an 8 percent increase in applications. CU officials attributed the decrease, in part, to technical issues plaguing the university’s new student information system.
Read moreSyllabus spotlight for fall 2010
Digital Newsroom. Instructor Rick Stevens says ““It’s an interesting and rewarding experience watching students apply their journalistic values in new environments.”
Read moreHolocaust photos lead to new insights
When photojournalists in the Soviet Union began chronicling Nazi crimes against Jews during World War II, they left a major piece of the story out — the Jews.
Read moreYou can never be too smart or too thin
A couple of years ago a Forbes magazine survey concluded that Boulder was the smartest city in the country. Now comes word from the Gallup Poll that Boulder is the second thinnest.
Read moreSaving the Earth since 1970
Forty years ago, before alternative energy was lucrative and being green was the cool thing to do, CU students founded the Environmental Center on Earth Day in 1970. The center was the first of its kind in the nation and has made CU-Boulder a green leader among U.S. colleges and universities.
Read moreSyllabus spotlight for summer 2010
Hitchcock and Freud taught by Humanities professor Paul Gordon.
Read moreBuff standouts saluted
The Alumni Association celebrated the 80th anniversary of its annual awards ceremony in early May by awarding 22 alumni, faculty, staff and students with six prestigious honors.
Read moreBreadwinner roles still unequally sliced
Even as more women slip into suits and head to the office every morning, they face the same piles of unfinished laundry, hungry mouths to feed and stacks of bills when they arrive home at night.
Read moreWhat makes my house so smart?
Affectionately known as the “Smart House,” the official chancellor’s residence became the first house in the nation’s “Smart Grid City” in late summer 2008. Xcel Energy outfitted the house at its expense as a living laboratory for “green” living.
Read moreLoss leads to legacy
Michael Hoza (Econ ex’87) had been thriving as a CU-Boulder student. He made great friends through his fraternity, was politically engaged on campus and had fallen in love with Colorado, playing hockey, skiing and riding his motorcycle along the Front Range.
Read more80th anniversary of annual awards ceremony celebrated by the CU-Boulder Alumni Association
The tradition of honoring the University of Colorado’s best began in 1930 and has continued as the CU-Boulder Alumni Association announced 21 outstanding members of the university community who were recognized at a free public ceremony on campus Wednesday, May 5.
Read moreMind over money-How we spend unexpected cash
It’s a pretty good bet CU professor Peter McGraw could tell you how you’d spend any unexpected money that may come your way.
Read moreScientist’s probe outside the box
Traditional cancer research dollars often reward tried-and-true approaches, leaving young scientists who think outside the box empty-handed.
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Flow Visualization: A Course in the Physics and Art of Fluid Flow
Read moreTradition celebrates our best
Come celebrate one of CU-Boulder’s longest traditions by attending the 80th Annual Alumni Awards Ceremony on May 5 in Old Main.
Read moreThe threat of the day keeps the travelers away
According to CU associate professor Leaf Van Boven, pay attention to when you receive travel information because it could play a role in how you perceive risk.
Read moreNorlin gets facelift for 70th birthday
The venerable Norlin Library turned 70 years old on Jan. 6. The building has anchored the historic Norlin Quadrangle for seven decades with its stately sandstone pillars and inscriptions promising “timeless fellowship.” It remains a campus architectural icon, even as the structure of the building has evolved in response to cultural, political and pedagogical trends.
Read moreBig oil in, big science out
Big changes are coming to Boulder County. Big oil is moving in. Big science is moving out.
Read moreBuffs gaze at celestial bodies
About 50 students, mostly from aerospace engineering, are working to build a 5-pound spacecraft the size of a loaf of bread that will give scientists a better understanding of solar flares and other so-called space weather.
Read moreDiStefano visits White House to STEM shortage
Chancellor Philip P. DiStefano was front and center on Jan. 6 at the White House when leaders of four research universities representing 120 universities presented a letter to President Barack Obama pledging to address the national shortage of science and mathematics teachers.
Read moreA Buff Life – Adventure, Service, Empathy, Courage, Hard Work and Humor…
This place is a far cry from Pearl Street or the Hill, but it was here, among the hammocks and conch shells, that we met Carrie Gibaldo (EnvsSt ’06) and Emily Fahle (A&S ex’04), two former CU students who have achieved “Buff Life” status by combining adventure and service with strong shots of courage, empathy and humor. At the time, they were both working at Canoa’s only bilingual elementary school, a job that neither woman had trained for nor expected when they first ventured to Ecuador.
Read moreThere’s something lurking in my showerhead
Several different types of disease-causing pathogens lurk inside common showerheads, according to a CU-Boulder study led by distinguished professor Norman Pace of molecular, cellular and developmental biology. One in particular, Mycobacterium avium, has been linked to pulmonary disease. It usually affects people with weak immune systems but occasionally affects healthy people.
Read more“Buffanaut” herd stampedes into space
By the time President John F. Kennedy gave his Sept. 12, 1962, speech making the case for America to go boldly into space, one CU alum had already been there and done that.
Read moreWill bar codes stop illegal animal trade?
With many animal species in sharp decline because of a thriving illegal animal trade, CU-Boulder and other researchers have developed sequenced DNA bar codes to identify hunted wildlife species. Such DNA bar codes can help wildlife officials crack down on illegal bushmeat trafficking estimated to net $5 billion to $8 billion annually.
Read moreProfessor lives suite life in dorm
Dorms have always had a family-type feel, but this fall, Andrews Hall in the Kittredge Complex took the concept one step further when associate professor Scot Douglass of engineering, his wife and two children moved in.
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This yearlong, highly selective course focuses on values and leadership at the top level of organizations. Six high-level executives visit the class to speak about critical business dilemmas they have faced, and students prepare solutions for the executives to evaluate.
Read moreSocial media a possible lifesaver during disasters
In June, Twitter awed the world with its potential for breaking news during the Iranian election protests. Meanwhile, the number of users on Facebook has skyrocketed from 50 million to 300 million users in just two years. As the popularity of online social networking sites increases, assistant professor Leysia Palen of computer science thinks some of the cyberspace chitchat that occurs during a crisis could help save lives.
Read moreColorado chalks up a century of teacher licenses
More than 100 years ago, those who wanted to teach high school in Colorado merely needed to complete high school. That changed in 1909 when Colorado state legislators created a formal statewide credential for the teaching profession. It required high school teachers to be college graduates, lending status and credibility to educators.
Read moreCampus green effort No. 1 in country
This fall Sierra Club’s magazine named CU-Boulder the top “green” university in the nation, a jump up from its No. 2 ranking last year. And the campus earned the highest grade given on a college sustainability report card by the Sustainable Endowments Institute, a Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors project.
Read moreSilver & Gold’s last Record
The Silver & Gold Record ended up including its own obituary in its last edition June 18.
Read moreChurchill denied job, back pay
In a resounding defeat for fired CU-Boulder ethnic studies professor Ward Churchill, a judge ruled July 7 that Churchill deserves neither financial compensation nor his job back. This vacates a jury finding in April that CU’s regents had unlawfully stripped Churchill of his job for expressing his political beliefs in his controversial essay about the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Read moreSyllabus spotlight for fall 2009
Course description: An introduction to life in the universe, including scientific, technical, philosophical and social aspects. Topics include conditions necessary for life to exist on Earth and other planetary bodies. Students will discuss NASA’s program to seek life in space.
Read moreGo wild at Zoolights
Dec. 3. Kick off your holiday season at Denver Zoo with dozens of acres of glittering trees, animated light sculptures and live animal presentations while beating the crowds, as this is a private Buff night. Reserve your tickets now!
Read moreAlumni donations high to ol’ CU
More than 19,000 CU-Boulder alums donated to the university in the fiscal year ending June 30 — 8.8 percent more than the prior year and the most in the university’s history.
Read moreOrder the new campus calendar
Purchase a calendar for $12.49 and enjoy the beauty and spirit of the Boulder campus from August 2009 to July 2010.
Read moreWheat’s Western weavings wow
Some of Powell’s rare and priceless blankets are part of the CU Museum of Natural History Joe Ben Wheat collection, considered one of the finest Southwest textile collections in the world. Visitors can view portions of the collection in the revolving exhibit Navajo Weaving: Diamonds, Dreams, Landscapes on display in four-month installations through May 30, 2010.
Read moreCU’s high-flying president
CU president Roland Rautenstraus had a fear of flying. Paul Danish tells the story behind it and how it changed.
Read moreChase murder case closed 12 years later
In June a Boulder jury found Diego Olmos Alcalde guilty of first-degree murder, felony murder, first-degree sexual assault and second-degree kidnapping of CU-Boulder senior Susannah Chase on Dec. 21, 1997. He was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole.
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