American flag on campus

Getting out the vote and hashing out the issues

Sept. 10, 2024

A nonpartisan, campuswide initiative aims to help students get registered and vote, as well as learn about the candidates and issues.

Five babies sitting

Have more babies! Some say it's necessary, but this demographer isn't convinced

Sept. 9, 2024

As birth rates fall in the U.S. and beyond, a growing ‘pronatalist’ movement contends that people should be having more babies to prevent economic and cultural decline. Leslie Root, a social demographer who studies fertility trends, offers her take.

cover of EA Sports' College Football 25, featuring CU's Travis Hunter in the center

Does that player in the video game look familiar?

Aug. 30, 2024

Fifteen years after Ed O’Bannon’s groundbreaking lawsuit, college athletes continue to benefit from greater control of their name, image and likeness.

Sign with American flag and the word "Vote" sits out on a table while people mill around in the background

AI images abound this election cycle. Here’s how you can tell fact from fiction

Aug. 29, 2024

In an election year, experts from CU Boulder weigh in on strategies you can take to distinguish real and fake images online—and how to talk to friends and family spreading misinformation.

Sign in Hindi and English

From harmony to civil war: When language turns deadly

Aug. 29, 2024

CU political scientist Jaroslav Tir argues it’s not just what a government says about its ethnic minorities but also the language it uses that can be threatening.

CU students walking on campus on the first day of classes

Studying the importance of belonging

Aug. 29, 2024

How do we create a sense of belonging for higher education students? By fostering a sense of belonging for everyone, including faculty and staff. That is the key takeaway from a new article published by professors Noah Finkelstein and Phoebe Young.

person typing hateful things on keyboard

Data dump: Meta killed CrowdTangle. What does it mean for researchers, reporters?

Aug. 27, 2024

Without access to social media data, disinformation and hate speech may become easier to spread—and harder to detect.

medieval castle on a cliff in Portugal

For medieval Iberian queens, love was a dangerous sickness

Aug. 19, 2024

In a newly published history of the region’s female monarchs, a CU Boulder scholar shows the connections between love, grief and madness.

CU Boulder doctoral candidate Idowu Odeyemi

Scholar challenges rigid boundaries in African philosophical thought

Aug. 13, 2024

CU Boulder doctoral candidate Idowu Odeyemi argues that African philosophy should not be limited to a single definition.

White House Deputy Special Assistant Alvin Snyder with President Richard Nixon before his resignation speech in 1974

Remembering Nixon’s resignation, 5 decades later

Aug. 12, 2024

Political science professor Kenneth Bickers reflects on what made the ex-president’s decision to step down following the Watergate scandal a watershed moment in American history and how it has influenced politics today.

Pages