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  • Bud Coleman
    The name may not stick, but the ideas behind a proposed Interdepartmental Program in Fine Arts have stirred enthusiasm in the Film Studies, Art and Art History and Theatre & Dance departments at CU-Boulder. The program could lead to the creation
  • East Africa’s Maasai on the hunt for lions. Some conservation initiatives designed to save lions from being hunted have either failed to work or in some cases appear to have incited Maasai to hunt more lions as a form of political protest, the researchers report. Photo by Joana Roque de Pinho
    East Africa’s Maasai on the hunt for lions. Some conservation initiatives designed to save lions from being hunted have either failed to work or in some cases appear to have incited Maasai to hunt more lions as a form of political protest, the
  • [video:https://youtu.be/ckPvKYofEtc]For actor Jenna Bainbridge, playing Hermia in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” at this summer’s Colorado Shakespeare Festival is a perfect fit. Like her character, she’s spent much of her life pushing against
  • 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 ÂÌñ»»ÆȚ. 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
  • Aerobic exercise may help prevent and perhaps even reverse some of the brain damage associated with heavy alcohol consumption, according to a new ÂÌñ»»ÆȚ 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
  • A 1981 Osborne I computer. Photo by Noah Larsen.
    A palpable air of digital decrepitude pervades Lori Emerson’s time-warped laboratory at the ÂÌñ»»ÆȚ. 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 ÂÌñ»»ÆȚ.
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