Reb Zalman founded the Jewish Renewal movement in the 1960s.

Jewish Renewal archives find home at CU

March 1, 2011

Rabbi Zalman Schacter-Shalomi was born in Poland, grew up in Austria, fled Nazi oppression in Europe, was ordained in Chabad Lubavitch Hasidism in America, and launched a new hybrid of Judaism for the world. Reb Zalman, as he is commonly known, founded the Jewish Renewal movement in the 1960s. Described...

Manipulated film

Transforming film into visual poetry

March 1, 2011

New center preserves work of CU filmmaker Stan Brakhage, aims to be a hub for other experimental media Stan Brakhage loved poetry and befriended poets but considered himself a failed poet. Many experts disagreed. He was, they said, a consummate poet鈥攐ne who spoke in the language of film and measured...

Michael Huemer is one of eight university faculty members who have been named CU Center for the Humanities and the Arts Fellows.

The 鈥榤oral illusion鈥 of governmental authority

March 1, 2011

Michael Huemer asks his students to imagine being a neighborhood vigilante. Suppose, he says, you live in a crime-ridden neighborhood, and nothing鈥檚 being done about it. So you hunt down criminals and lock them in your basement. After awhile, you bill your neighbors for keeping the neighborhood safe. You tell...

Ebrahim Moosa, an associate professor of Islamic studies at Duke University

Viewing the Koran as holy and historical text

March 1, 2011

Noted scholar of Islam speaks at CU as part of effort to honor Professor Frederick Denny Long before Egyptians rose up against dictator Hosni Mubarak, Egyptian authorities prosecuted an Islamic scholar who argued that Muslims should view the Koran as both a holy text and a historical document. Ebrahim Moosa,...

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Education emergency's first responders

March 1, 2011

As the 鈥榞athering storm鈥 in science and math education approaches 鈥楥ategory 5鈥 and imperils American competitiveness, CU students rush in Ryan O鈥橞lock had been considering a career in K-12 teaching since high school, but when he signed up to become an undergraduate 鈥渓earning assistant鈥 in an introductory physics course at...

People sitting in a living room

Who wants to deliberate?

March 1, 2011

Conventional wisdom suggests that average citizens hate politics, balk at voting even in presidential-election years and are, incidentally, woefully ill-informed. A new study by a team of researchers that includes a CU professor refutes that notion.

Lake

It came from Mono Lake

Dec. 16, 2010

But is NASA鈥檚 finding truly a previously undiscovered form of 鈥榳eird life鈥 on Earth? Many scientists, including some noted experts at CU, have doubts The New York Times, NASA and the prestigious journal Science announced startling news recently. 鈥淢icrobe Finds Arsenic Tasty; Redefines Life,鈥 a page-one Times headline proclaimed. The...

Caitlin Epple and Kyle Metcalf pose before going to their high-school prom.

Though gone, Caitlin and Kyle still helping others

Dec. 1, 2010

Caitlin Epple and Kyle Metcalf were bursting with energy, love and promise. Now, those photographs are a testament to two lives lived very well and done too soon.

Masculine male

Fertile women want macho-looking men

Dec. 1, 2010

Effect is more pronounced among women partnered with less-masculine-looking men, researchers find; male intelligence shows no such effect When their romantic partners are not quintessentially masculine, women in their fertile phase are more likely to fantasize about masculine-looking men than are women paired with George Clooney types. But women with...

In 2006, after testing positive for HIV and seeing her CD4 count drop to 159 (from a normal level of about 1,000), Penina Petro started on the road to better health with the help of the medications she received from Sekotoure Hospital, Tanzania, under Global HIV/AIDS Program funding. In 2001-02, CU Professor Keith Maskus helped launch a similar program while serving as lead economist in the Development Research Group at the World Bank. Photo by U.S. Health Resources and Services Adminitration.

Patently beneficial protections, worldwide

Dec. 1, 2010

While stronger intellectual-property laws help economies in rich and poor nations, access to medicine is another issue; CU economist has done groundbreaking work in both areas In 2006, after testing positive for HIV and seeing her CD4 count drop to 159 (from a normal level of about 1,000), Penina Petro...

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