Academics

  • <p>New findings on why skeletal muscle stem cells stop dividing and renewing muscle mass during aging points up a unique therapeutic opportunity for managing muscle-wasting conditions in humans, says a new University of Colorado Boulder study.</p>
  • <p>Recently derived equations that describe development patterns in modern urban areas appear to work equally well to describe ancient cities settled thousands of years ago, according to a new study led by a researcher at the University of Colorado Boulder.</p>
  • <p>A group of CU-Boulder students and alumni have put their entrepreneurial might into creating the area’s first co-working space designed to connect students with the business community.</p>
  • Stephen Kissler
    <p class="p1">Applied mathematics student Stephen Kissler has received the highly competitive Gates Cambridge Scholarship for doctoral studies at Cambridge University, funded by Microsoft founder Bill Gates.</p>
  • <p class="p1">Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler and Federal Trade Commission Chairwoman Edith Ramirez will speak at a University of Colorado Boulder conference dealing with Internet governance issues Feb. 9-10.</p>
    <p class="p1">The conference, “Digital Broadband Migration: After the Internet Protocol Revolution,” will be hosted by the University of Colorado Law School’s <a href="http://www.siliconflatirons.com/index.php">Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology and Entrepreneurship</a>.</p>
  • <p>This spring CU-Boulder’s Center for Asian Studies is launching a new <a href="http://cas.colorado.edu/content/asian-studies-minor">Asian Studies minor</a>, open to all students on campus, with the goal of helping students understand Asia as a region beyond one particular nation.</p>
  • <p>Scientists have known that shy toddlers often have delayed speech, but a new study by the University of Colorado Boulder shows that the lag in using words does not mean that the children don’t understand what’s being said.</p>
  • <p>A renowned Seoul-based artist will use steel ground into a fine, black powder to write calligraphic inscriptions on the floor of the CU-Boulder Visual Arts Complex on Feb. 11, followed by a performance-art piece and a lecture by the artist.</p>
    <p>This is one of several free events during the two-week residency of Kim Jongku at the University of Colorado Boulder Department of Art and Art History. Kim works in sculpture, video, painting and photography and will be in residency here Feb. 3 to Feb. 14.</p>
  • College of Music
    <p>University of Colorado Boulder Provost Russell L. Moore today announced two finalists for the position of dean of the College of Music. The finalists for the position are Mary Ellen Poole, former dean of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and Robert Shay, director of the School of Music at the University of Missouri in Columbia.</p>
  • Butterfly photo courtesy Tobin Hammer, University of Colorado
    <p>For the first time ever, a team led by the University of Colorado Boulder has sequenced the internal bacterial makeup of the three major life stages of a butterfly species, a project that showed some surprising events occur during metamorphosis.</p>
    <p>The team, led by CU-Boulder doctoral student Tobin Hammer, used powerful DNA sequencing methods to characterize bacterial communities inhabiting caterpillars, pupae and adults of <em>Heliconius erato</em>, commonly known as the red postman butterfly. The red postman is an abundant tropical butterfly found in Central and South America.</p>
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