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  • There’s gold in them thar drawers. Or there was, until recently, at the ñ Division of Continuing Education.
    There’s gold in them thar drawers. Or there was, until recently, at the ñ Division of Continuing Education.
  • Aerobic exercise may help prevent and perhaps even reverse some of the brain damage associated with heavy alcohol consumption, according to a new ñ study.The study results indicated that regular aerobic exercise like
  • The aftermath of the 2010 Fourmile Fire, the costliest in terms of private-property loss in Colorado to that date, opened the door for CU-Boulder scientists, including graduate students and undergraduates, to study the microbial response to wildfire over time. Photo by Jeff Mitton.
    Diana Nemergut designed the course to teach technical skills in environmental microbiology. The course did much more; it also generated field research and a scholarly publication involving graduate students and even undergraduates.
  • Andrew Martin, a professor in the CU-Boulder Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, directs the university’s Teaching Evolution Outreach Program. Photo courtesy of Hillary Rosner
    Andrew Martin, a professor in the CU-Boulder Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, directs the university’s Teaching Evolution Outreach Program. Photo courtesy of Hillary RosnerEvolution is a fundamental building block of biology that
  • Protester gather at an anti-Qaddafi demonstration in Cairo, Egypt.
    A quarter of a century ago, most of the world’s “underachievers” in terms of human development—measured by such things as life expectancy, education, guaranteed human rights and political freedom—were Muslim countries.Human development might be
  • Arielle Silverman, graduate student in social psychology at the ñ. Photo by Noah Larsen.
    In the 1990s, comedian—now U.S. Sen.—Al Franken made the line, “I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and doggone it, people like me!” part of the national lexicon with the creation of the fictional “Daily Affirmation with Stuart Smalley” on Saturday
  • A 1981 Osborne I computer. Photo by Noah Larsen.
    A palpable air of digital decrepitude pervades Lori Emerson’s time-warped laboratory at the ñ. Geriatric relics of the computer revolution with names like Vectrex, Kaypro and Commodore Amiga exude the strange pungency of aged electronics, vaguely musty with tart plastic undertones.
  • Desert
    Some of the smallest airborne particulate matter poses large risks to human health, but bigger blobs aren’t necessarily benign. That’s one conclusion of Jason Neff, associate professor of geological sciences and environmental studies at the ñ.
  • Omid Safi, professor of Islamic Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
    Faced with a sharp question from a critic following a talk about progressive Islam at the ñ in early November, Omid Safi was ready.The professor of Islamic Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill nodded
  • Jeffrey Zax
    The men and women elected to the Colorado General Assembly (the state Legislature) may have a wealth of life experience as lawyers, ranchers or business owners. But when it comes to economics, most of them could use a little help—from undergraduate
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