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  • Jennifer Peterson, assistant professor of film studies, examines the return of landscape to film in the era after World War II.
    As film’s silent era came to a close, it took with it location-based shooting and, thus, wilderness landscapes. The new sound-recording equipment was too cumbersome and delicate to travel outside the controlled confines of a studio.It wasn’t until
  • In 2006, after testing positive for HIV and seeing her CD4 count drop to 159 (from a normal level of about 1,000), Penina Petro started on the road to better health with the help of the medications she received from Sekotoure Hospital, Tanzania, under Global HIV/AIDS Program funding. In 2001-02, CU Professor Keith Maskus helped launch a similar program while serving as lead economist in the Development Research Group at the World Bank. Photo by U.S. Health Resources and Services Adminitration.
    While stronger intellectual-property laws help economies in rich and poor nations, access to medicine is another issue; CU economist has done groundbreaking work in both areasIn 2006, after testing positive for HIV and seeing her CD4 count drop to
  • Girl in bed staring at alarm clock
    CU study is the first to quantify energy expenditure during sleep and wakeful periodsIn the first-ever quantification of energy expended by humans during sleep, a University of Colorado team has found that the metabolic cost of an adult missing one
  • Shelley Copley, a CU professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology. Photo by Noah Larsen
    Few bacteria would choose the hazardous man-made chemical pentachlorophenol (or PCP) from the menu of microbial delights.But one “bug†is giving it a shot. It’s the best-described of only a handful of bacteria known to break down the pollutant. One
  • Don Cooper, associate professor of psychology and neuroscience and co-director of the neuroscience undergraduate program
    For many years, faculty members in the University of Colorado’s Department of Psychology and Neuroscience and other departments have been asking questions about how the brain works.  Now, undergraduates at the University of Colorado will have
  • Vernon Minor, a professor emeritus of art and art history at the University of Colorado
    Emeritus professor was ‘interdisciplinary’ before it was coolIn academic circles, the term “interdisciplinary†may be jargon, but it is also one measure of scholarly excellence. “Interdisciplinary†studies strive to make sense of the world through
  • Sona Dimidjian, an assistant professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of Colorado
    Faculty member strives to increase clinical impact of new research and to address under-served population: women of childbearing age who are depressedWomen have twice the odds of suffering depression as men, and the chances rise during childbearing
  • A group from CU enjoys a moment with the actress Laura Linney in Telluride. From left to right: (back row) Louis Zeller, Hank Smith, Jackson Elley, Nathan Wickstrum, Tony Tovar, Richard Montoya, J.T. Birchall, Kenny Karsten. (middle row) Janet Robinson, Andy Bartosch, Lesley Wharton, Laura Linney, Nikki Sewell, Emilee Prado, Braden Waller, Parker Richards, Robert Collins (first row) Kelly Milan, Becca Oliver, Molly Enright, (very front) Michaela Simon and James Gilbert.
    A group from CU enjoys a moment with the actress Laura Linney in Telluride. From left to right: (back row) Louis Zeller, Hank Smith, Jackson Elley, Nathan Wickstrum, Tony Tovar, Richard Montoya, J.T. Birchall, Kenny Karsten. (middle row) Janet
  • From left to Right: Juan Herrero-Senés, Susanna Pérez-Pàmies, Núria Silleras-Fernández and Javier Krauel. Photo by Noah Larsen.
    Catalan is a romance language spoken in four European countries: Spain, France, Italy and the Principality of Andorra. Catalan people feel deep pride in their culture and language, a fact that will be conveyed in courses taught at the University of
  • CU researcher finds 10,000-year-old weapon
    To the untrained eye, University of Colorado at Boulder Research Associate Craig Lee’s recent discovery of a 10,000-year-old wooden hunting weapon might look like a small branch that blew off a tree in a windstorm.
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