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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 Africaâs 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 âA Midsummer Nightâs Dreamâ at this summerâs Colorado Shakespeare Festival is a perfect fit. Like her character, sheâs spent much of her life pushing against
A quarter of a century ago, most of the worldâs âunderachieversâ in terms of human developmentâmeasured by such things as life expectancy, education, guaranteed human rights and political freedomâwere Muslim countries.Human development might be
In the 1990s, comedianânow U.S. Sen.âAl Franken made the line, âIâm good enough, Iâm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me!â part of the national lexicon with the creation of the fictional âDaily Affirmation with Stuart Smalleyâ 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
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 universityâs Teaching Evolution Outreach Program. Photo courtesy of Hillary RosnerEvolution is a fundamental building block of biology that
A palpable air of digital decrepitude pervades Lori Emersonâs 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.
Some of the smallest airborne particulate matter poses large risks to human health, but bigger blobs arenât necessarily benign. Thatâs one conclusion of Jason Neff, associate professor of geological sciences and environmental studies at the ÂÌñ»»ÆȚ.