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When most people think of maps, they think National Geographic, Rand McNally or — more likely these days — Google. Maps show us where places and objects are and sometimes, what they look like.They can be two-dimensional or three-dimensional, and
Former CU-Boulder postdoctoral researchers Amy Miller ( blue coat) and Katie Suding (black coat) are shown here with other members of a research team conducting a study involving nitrogen deposition on the tundra of the Niwot Ridge Long-Term
When former U.S. Rep. Patricia Schroeder tearfully announced in 1987 that she would not seek the nomination for president, many analysts suggested that such a display of emotion made her unqualified. But what if all our tightly held stereotypes about “emotional” females and stoic males are wrong?
Nate and Zach Huey are identical, 15-year-old twins, who, like most twins, are somewhat dissimilar. But the twins but have much in common. Both like Japanese comic books called Manga. Both read voraciously and have a vocabulary that shows it. And both have been studied since the age of 4 by researchers at the Institute for Behavioral Genetics at the University of Colorado Boulder.
If the world ever takes a swift, downward trip in a hand basket, historian Elizabeth “Lil” Fenn feels pretty good about her chances. Compared to many–let’s be honest, most–modern academics, Fenn has led a very hands-on life. Noting tradition of scholars trained in trade skills, she joins CU history faculty.
Imagine, if you will, a meeting of minds between Ayn Rand and Mohammed…Public surveys in recent years consistently have found that concerns about “radical Islam” are higher among conservative Christians in the United States than among many other
Thomas Andrews has a knack for framing American history unconventionally. In his award-winning book “Killing for Coal,” Andrews traced the central role of coal in Colorado’s economic growth, environmental change and social conflict. Now he’s turning
[video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ox9Y2NiNIl4]This video, posted on YouTube, captures a CU student perspective of the Telluride University Seminar at the Telluride Film Festival. This video was created by CU student William Jones, with- Two University of Colorado Boulder researchers who have adapted a three-dimensional, general circulation model of Earth’s climate to a time some 2.8 billion years ago when the sun was significantly fainter than present think the planet may have been
In 1966, the Soviet Union promised to do all it could to reunite Soviet Jews with relatives living outside the Communist nation. The pledge was hollow. In much of America, Jewish immigrants struggled. But they found help in Boulder, and that history is being preserved.