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  • CU-Boulder heads off Shakespeare fear...with fun
    Does your stomach experience toil and trouble at the memory of a pinched and scolding high-school English teacher peddling Bardic cod-liver oil? Does the idea of seeing a Shakespeare play threaten to put you to sleep, perchance to dream? Well, “You haven’t seen ‘Hamlet’ until you’ve seen a 10-year-old do ‘Hamlet.’â€
  • Naomi Sheindal Seidman
    Seidman will be in residence March 9-11 and will present a public lecture titled “Tevye’s Dream, Or How Traditional Marriage Haunts Modern Romance,†on Thursday, March 10 at 7 p.m. in Old Main Theater on campus.
  • The Gardens of Adonis, an 1888 painting by John Reinhard Wkeguelin depicts women bearing the container-grown plants and festal rose garlands to dispose of in the sea, as part of the festival of Adonis.
    A CU Boulder classicist argues that the festival of Adonis was actually a “dissent and a critique of important cultural practices.â€
  • The greenhouse on the roof of the Ramaley Biology building is partly obscured from view at ground level. Up on the roof, it enjoys the full benefit of those famous 300 days of Boulder sunshine annually. Photo by Laura Kriho.
    In the oasis of greenhouses on campus, biology students can make cutting-edge scientific advances, while surrounded by tropical plants in a tranquil setting.
  • Francis Beckwith has been named the fourth Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and Policy at CU-Boulder.
    Francis Beckwith will serve as the Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and Policy for the 2016-17 academic year. He is the fourth person to hold the position.
  • A petroglyph of an eclipse is seen with a wide-angle lens in a photograph at Chaco Canyon, where CU-Boulder researchers captured a rare Aurora Borealis in the southern night sky. Photo courtesy of Fiske Planetarium.
    Having captured the summer solstice and a week’s worth of sunsets, sunrises and their lunar equivalents from the vantage point of ancient Chacoan people in southwestern Colorado, using parabolic video technology, a multi-disciplinary team from the University of Colorado Boulder counted its June 2015 trip a success.
  • Participants in a modern cell-biology ‘boot camp’ in Ghana pause for reflection during the course. Photo courtesy of Dick Macintosh.
    A distinguished professor of biology and a biology alumna recently traveled to the University of Ghana in Legon to participate in a two-week course on modern cell biology for biochemistry graduate students. The duo have taught the course in four African countries. They call the courses modern cell-biology “boot camps†and say their goal is the promotion of front-line research in Africa, which has no shortage of disease but a dearth of cutting-edge research on disease.
  • A high-resolution map based on NOAA weather data shows a snapshot of wind energy potential across the United States in 2012. Image by Chris Clack/CIRES.
    A high-resolution map based on NOAA weather data shows a snapshot of wind energy potential across the United States in 2012. Image by Chris Clack/CIRES.The United States could slash greenhouse gas emissions from power production by up to 78 percent
  • Original art work that is part of the MFA exhibition that is the result of a collaboration between the CU Museum of Natural History and MFA students. The exhibition is titled (Re)Collecting: Translating Archive and Excavating Memory . Photo courtesy of the CU Museum of Natural History.
    Original art work that is part of the MFA exhibition that is the result of a collaboration between the CU Museum of Natural History and MFA students. The exhibition is titled (Re)Collecting: Translating Archive and Excavating Memory . Photo courtesy
  • Practicing yoga during pregnancy can help prevent postpartum depression. iStockphoto.
    Pregnant and postpartum women at risk of depression are less likely to suffer depression when they meditate or get in a yoga pose than when they are treated with psychotherapy or antidepressants, a study led by CU-Boulder researchers has found.
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