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CU helping to preserve Catalan language, culture

Oct. 1, 2010

Catalan is a romance language spoken in four European countries: Spain, France, Italy and the Principality of Andorra. Catalan people feel deep pride in their culture and language, a fact that will be conveyed in courses taught at the University of Colorado for the first time this year. Beginning this...

Don Cooper, associate professor of psychology and neuroscience and co-director of the neuroscience undergraduate program

Buff Brains can now major in neuroscience

Oct. 1, 2010

For many years, faculty members in the University of Colorado鈥檚 Department of Psychology and Neuroscience and other departments have been asking questions about how the brain works. Now, undergraduates at the University of Colorado will have the opportunity to participate more in this quest. For the first time this fall,...

Vernon Minor, a professor emeritus of art and art history at the University of Colorado

The joy of leading 鈥榓rt-history Outward Bound鈥

Oct. 1, 2010

Emeritus professor was 鈥榠nterdisciplinary鈥 before it was cool In academic circles, the term 鈥渋nterdisciplinary鈥 may be jargon, but it is also one measure of scholarly excellence. 鈥淚nterdisciplinary鈥 studies strive to make sense of the world through the lenses of disparate fields鈥攕ay, astronomy, philosophy and art history. Vernon Minor was championing...

Sona Dimidjian, an assistant professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of Colorado

Bridging the gap between research and clinical therapy

Oct. 1, 2010

Faculty member strives to increase clinical impact of new research and to address under-served population: women of childbearing age who are depressed Women have twice the odds of suffering depression as men, and the chances rise during childbearing years. While the World Health Organization has found that depression is the...

This 1942 photo of the Kerch atrocities carried this caption: 鈥淜erch resident P.I. Ivanova found her husband, who was tortured by the fascist executioners.鈥 Photo courtesy of Michael Mattis.

Prof uncovers early Holocaust photos

June 1, 2010

Soviet photographers recorded Nazi atrocities, but state鈥檚 message changed after Stalin and after Soviet Union鈥檚 collapse; CU professor notes the significance of overlapping narratives and memories Soviet photojournalists working for the country鈥檚 most important newspapers were among the first to document the unfolding Holocaust in their homeland, and they were...

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Green Revolution鈥檚 dark side effect: disease

June 1, 2010

In the last two decades, people have used more fertilizer than was used in all of human history; meanwhile, the incidence of disease in humans and animals has been rising. A trio of CU researchers find evidence that those facts may be related.

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Patients with Parkinson鈥檚 reclaim their voice

June 1, 2010

春水堂视频 90 percent of those afflicted with Parkinson鈥檚 disease have trouble speaking audibly, but researchers led by CU鈥檚 Lori Ramig has developed a treatment that helps most patients and is being used in 50 nations.

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Dizzy after first smoke? Your genes might be 鈥榣oaded鈥

June 1, 2010

Young people who have inherited a genetic variation leading to increased feeling of dizziness from smoking their first cigarettes have a higher risk of becoming addictive smokers.

Josette Sheeran, executive director of the U.N. World Food Programme, visits with students from the Stara School in Kenya. credit: WFP/Peter Smerdon

Ending world hunger is alum鈥檚 passion, and job

June 1, 2010

CU alum Josette Sheeran, the executive director of the U.N. World Food Programme, is on a mission to fight world hunger one cup at a time.

Only eight months after the tsunami, permanent houses had been provided for victims in the southern town of Hambantota, shown here, the home district of Sri Lanka's president. Tamils and Muslims on the eastern and northern coasts waited up to five years to obtain new housing. Photo credit: Michele R. Gamburd

After tsunami, Sri Lankan politics affected recovery

June 1, 2010

Only eight months after the tsunami, permanent houses had been provided for victims in the southern town of Hambantota, shown here, the home district of Sri Lanka's president. Tamils and Muslims on the eastern and northern coasts waited up to five years to obtain new housing. Photo credit: Michele R...

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