Couple cuddling

In sex, happiness is partly relative, CU finds

March 1, 2013

Sex is apparently like income: People are generally happy when they keep pace with the Joneses. They鈥檙e even happier if they get a bit more than their peers.

Smoke over mountains

With others, you can protect homes from wildfire

March 1, 2013

The fight against fires begins before the first spark鈥攚hen homeowners in the wildland-urban interface choose whether to remove trees and bushes near their homes.

Adam Bradley in the classroom

From Mozart to Mos Def (and Dr. Seuss)

Dec. 1, 2012

Not just anyone can vividly trace a thread weaving through a zebra鈥檚 stripes, a partly crumbling brick wall, a Jackson Pollock painting, a Mozart piano sonata, Dr. Seuss鈥 鈥淔ox in Socks,鈥 Gwendolyn Brooks鈥 鈥淲e Real Cool,鈥 and even a rap duet by Mos Def and Slick Rick.

Telomeres sit at the ends of chromosomes to protect their genetic data. Credit: Jane Ades, NHGRI.

Nobel laureate鈥檚 co-author: an undergraduate

Dec. 1, 2012

CU undergraduate student named as co-author alongside Tom Cech and Leslie Leinwand on groundbreaking paper published in the prestigious journal Nature.

The ceremonial center of the ancient Zapotec city of Monte Alban. Photo by Arthur Joyce.

Anthropologist to study religion in Ancient Mesoamerica

Dec. 1, 2012

A CU-Boulder anthropologist and a collaborator from Florida have won a $230,000 grant to examine the role of religion in the social and political innovations that led to the emergence of Mesoamerican civilization.

Richard Laver as a young man

A life well lived

Dec. 1, 2012

While descending Cathedral Spire in Yosemite Valley, Richard Laver lost his route. But after a night stranded on a ledge in darkness, he found an answer that had eluded mathematicians for two decades.

Friends standing together

Friends by fortune, not fate

Dec. 1, 2012

鈥淣ature teaches beasts to know their friends,鈥 wrote Shakespeare. In humans, nature may be less than half of the story, a team led by University of Colorado Boulder researchers has found.

At the  75th Street Wastewater Treatment Facility are, from left to right: Chris Douville, the city of Boulder鈥檚 coordinator of wastewatertTreatment; Cole Sigmon, process optimization specialist; David Bortz, assistant professor of applied mathematics at the University of Colorado Boulder. Photo by Noah Larsen.

For cleaner water, NSF taps CU applied mathematician

Dec. 1, 2012

At the 75th Street Wastewater Treatment Facility are, from left to right: Chris Douville, the city of Boulder鈥檚 coordinator of wastewatertTreatment; Cole Sigmon, process optimization specialist; David Bortz, assistant professor of applied mathematics at the University of Colorado Boulder. Photo by Noah Larsen. Wastewater-treatment plants might be able to send...

Elisabeth Sheffield, associate professor of English, won a $25,000 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship in Prose this year. Photo by Noah Larsen.

Award-winning creative writers upbeat about their art

Oct. 1, 2012

Elisabeth Sheffield, associate professor of English, won a $25,000 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship in Prose this year. Photo by Noah Larsen. In each of the past two years, a CU-Boulder faculty member has won a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts鈥攐ne for prose and one for...

Daniel Doak, a conservation biologist, was hired by CU-Boulder as its first Colorado Chair in Environmental Studies. Here, he works at CU鈥檚 Mountain Research Station on Niwot Ridge west of Boulder. Photo by Camille Mona Howitaawi Del Duca.

CU hires first Colorado Chair in Environmental Studies

Oct. 1, 2012

CU-Boulder has hired its first Colorado Chair in Environmental Studies, an endowed chair awarded to Daniel Doak, a conservation biologist known for his quantitative analysis of how different government policies could affect the populations of species ranging from sea otters, California condors, corals, and rare plants.

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