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In his ÂÌñ»»ÆȚ office, David Shneer gestured to material on his table. A rare book there documents the sketches of the building of Auschwitz. Only five copies exist, and the Mazal Holocaust Collection, recently donated to the university, has two.
Distinquished prof and colleague from the University of New Mexico have been granted a patent for a new pain-management gene therapy that focuses not on neurons, but on glia. âOur drugs turn Mr. Hyde back into Dr. Jekyll,â she says.
For years, a CU-Boulder anthropologist has been training Vietnamese scientists to help preserve endangered primates in Vietnam. His work is gratifying has a more âprofoundâ effect than other work he could do, he says.
âWe have three tenure-track, full-time specialists in Tibet, and thatâs three more faculty specializing in Tibet than you find at most universities. Itâs not a huge group ⊠but itâs an incredible opportunity (for research) and also for students.â
Some 56 percent of Americans approve of large-scale secret monitoring of erstwhile private telephone activity for the purposes of combating terrorism, according to a recent survey by the Pew Center for the People and the Press.
Oberon and Titania are going at it in the middle of a hot May afternoon, trading thinly veiled â and not so â insults during a rehearsal of the Colorado Shakespeare Festivalâs production of âA Midsummer Nightâs Dream.â
For about three years following Sept. 11, 2001, when terrorists struck on American soil, U.S. policy changes that reduced visas for foreign graduate students provided an inadvertent real-world laboratory.
The devastating drought of 2009 in northern Tanzania generated new coping strategies by Maasai people, suggesting that Maasai with more money and social connections are better able than their poorer, less-connected neighbors to endure extreme events such as drought and, potentially, climate change, a team of ÂÌñ»»ÆȚ researchers has found.
Sex is apparently like income: People are generally happy when they keep pace with the Joneses. Theyâre even happier if they get a bit more than their peers.
The fight against fires begins before the first sparkâwhen homeowners in the wildland-urban interface choose whether to remove trees and bushes near their homes.