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    CU Boulder's Tom Cech won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1989, but he firmly believes his place is still in the classroom teaching undergraduates. Here, he discusses how teaching adds meaning to his life and how he still works to become a better
  • Sabrina Spencer
    Sabrina Spencer, CU Boulder assistant professor of biochemistry, is one of 58 scientists nationwide to have won an NIH Director’s New Innovator Award. Those awards, announced today, are part of the High-Risk, High-Reward Research program, which supports “extraordinarily creative scientists proposing highly innovative research to address major challenges in biomedical research.”
  • Paid parental leave sorted by name of organization
    Adapted from The Daily Progress article. The University of Virginia on Tuesday announced expanded paid leave benefits for new parents — a move that goes beyond a state executive order and one that could help the school remain competitive with
  • BioFrontiers Symposium - Regenerative BioX
    Some of the top researchers in the field of regenerative medicine attended the RegenerativeBIOX Conference on CU Boulder’s East Campus last week. Hosted by the BioFrontiers Institute, the conference was designed to be interactive and help
  • Orit Peleg
    Orit Peleg is an assistant professor at the BioFrontiers Institute and in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Colorado Boulder. Peleg seeks to understand the behavior of disordered living systems by merging tools from physics,
  • CU’s 2018 Boettcher Investigators, from left, David H. Root, Edward Chuong, Kathleen M. Gavin, Eszter K. Vladar, Jean M. Mulcahy Levy and Matthew Taliaferro.
    Six University of Colorado researchers at the CU Anschutz Medical Campus and CU Boulder have been named Boettcher Investigators in the Boettcher Webb-Waring Biomedical Research Awards Program for 2018.The awards support promising, early
  • Daniel Youmans and Tom Cech
    Medical student Daniel Youmans (left) and Tom Cech (right), director of the BioFrontiers Institute, look over an image from a high-powered microscope (Credit: Glenn Asakawa/CU Boulder)Forty years after researchers first discovered it in fruit flies
  • Timmons Family
    Dan and Gloria Timmons were living in suburban splendor with their two daughters and two dogs when Mariposa and Montez joined the family and drastically changed the next chapter of their lives.“We had begun searching for horses to buy for our
  • Participants of BizWest's CEO Roundtable on Life Sciences in Boulder are, from left, Misha Plam, Ron Squarer, David Kerr, William Marshall, Chris Shapard, Jennifer Jones, Tin Tin Su, Pawel Fludzinski, Amy Beckley, Tom Cech, Becky Potts, Kyle Lefkoff, Tom Hertzberg, Jonathan Vaught, Marvin Caruthers, Not pictured: Brynmor Reese. BizWest/Jensen Werley.
    After years of companies being sold off or growing and relocating, Boulder’s life-sciences sector is showing signs of reaching critical mass.Companies such as Clovis Oncology Inc. (Nasdaq: CLVS), SomaLogic Inc., Array Biopharma Inc. (Nasdaq: ARRY)
  • L-R: Josh Peifer, Joanne Vozoff, Joe Dragavon
    L-R: Josh Peifer, Joanne Vozoff, Joe Dragavon When Syncroness, a Westminster-based technical product development and engineering firm, needed a highly technical solution to satisfy a client need, it turned to CU Boulder and the BioFrontiers
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