West African men and women

Men, women migrate differently

Dec. 1, 2011

In West Africa, climate change is reported to have pushed men to migrate north to Europe, by boat, in search of work. In Nepal, logging has prompted some subsistence-farming women to migrate toward more-abundant firewood.

Students raising hands

@Maria, we've made #Malvolio look crazy! LOL!

Oct. 1, 2011

With the help of a smartphone and Twitter, university collaborators show kids how Shakespeare instructs us on school bullying The University of Colorado is pursuing a more-civil society with this simple recipe: Take one Shakespearean play, one group of youngsters and a mendacious tweet. Mix well. Add role-playing and discussion...

Painting of cavemen

Following a 鈥楶aleo Diet鈥? Maybe not

Oct. 1, 2011

Those who eat like 鈥渃avemen鈥 or follow a 鈥淧aleo Diet鈥 will get 鈥淣eanderthin,鈥 some weight-loss books contend. But scientists are still figuring out what early hominins actually ate. And while the picture is not complete, it is more complex than previously thought.

World culture at CU

From Mubarak to Mao, CU鈥檚 a vanguard of culture, art

Oct. 1, 2011

In one corner of campus, an iconic image of Mao Zedung is punctuated with wood screws. In another venue, a leader of the successful uprising in Egypt this year shared her perspective of the 鈥淎rab Spring.鈥 These exemplify the 鈥渃ommunity and culture鈥 that CU fosters, preserves and celebrates.

Owen Brian Toon, a professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at the University of Colorado. Photo by Noah Larsen.

Childhood questions became lifelong quests

Oct. 1, 2011

Dinosaurs鈥 demise, Martian environment and Earth鈥檚 climate fascinated Brian Toon as a kid, captivated him as a scientist, and propelled him to a wide-ranging research career marked by a common theme: tiny airborne particles Since he was a kid, Owen Brian Toon has puzzled over 鈥渨eird problems鈥: What killed the...

Katie Grasha

In small Colorado town, an academic star is born

Oct. 1, 2011

Katie Grasha attended high school in Montrose, a Colorado community nestled in the pastoral Uncompahgre Valley, a place still so rural that its night sky twinkles with stars. Grasha, who recently graduated from the University of Colorado with a degree in astrophysical and planetary sciences, became a hometown ambassador for...

Clouds over the ocean

Ocean-air chemistry gets clearer and cloudier

March 1, 2011

CU team finds first conclusive evidence of climate-relevant gases over the remote Pacific Ocean, but why those gases exist where they do is a mystery.

Tim Seastedt

Weevils zap the 鈥榳icked weed of the West鈥

March 1, 2011

As startling claims about knapweed鈥檚 virulence are retracted, CU researchers show that weed-eating bugs can help control invasive species without herbicides.

Gerard Dillehay, a CU student, suffered a traumatic brain injury in a bicycle accident. He has received support from the Colorado Traumatic Brain Injury Trust Fund, a fund that CU Associate Professor Theresa Hernandez was instrumental in creating. Photo by Noah Larsen.

鈥業t鈥檚 like a second life鈥

March 1, 2011

CU student one of thousands helped by state Traumatic Brain Injury Trust Fund that enterprising CU neuroscientist helped set up.

Beth Osnes, CU associate professor of theatre and dance, hugs Zinet, an Ethiopian woman. Their lives weave a human tapestry through a new movie, "Mother: Caring Our Way Out of the Population Dilemma."

Mothers help women brake population growth

March 1, 2011

Beth Osnes, CU associate professor of theatre and dance, hugs Zinet, an Ethiopian woman. Their lives weave a human tapestry through a new movie, "Mother: Caring Our Way Out of the Population Dilemma." Two large families, two distant worlds, two women who break tradition. Thereby hangs a tale. Beth Osnes...

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