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Lemur CSI: Researchers ID predators threatening Madagascar’s iconic primates

Sept. 10, 2024

Predators not native to Madagascar, such as feral dogs and cats, may pose a serious threat to lemur species—many of which are already facing extinction on this African island.

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With Polaris Dawn’s launch, Colorado scientists will study vision changes in space

Sept. 10, 2024

This week, the crew of Polaris Dawn will attempt the first private spacewalk in history. Researchers from CU Boulder and CU Anschutz will be along for the ride.

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Making sense of the strikingly different ways consumers and economists view markets

Sept. 10, 2024

People’s economic reasoning tends to be grounded in simplified assumptions, moral intuitions and firsthand marketplace experiences and diverges systematically from the assumptions and conclusions of formal economic science.

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CIRES Girls* on Rock program finds new footing in 2024

Sept. 10, 2024

High school students from across the country traveled in Colorado’s mountains to learn science, outdoor skills and art.

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Getting out the vote and hashing out the issues

Sept. 10, 2024

A nonpartisan, campuswide initiative aims to help students get registered and vote, as well as learn about the candidates and issues.

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OIT’s Research Computing team helps shape tomorrow’s leaders

Sept. 10, 2024

Fifteen undergraduate students got an invaluable learning opportunity to help in the capacity expansion of CU Boulder’s regional high-performance computing cluster Alpine.

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Take this year’s Constitution Day quiz

Sept. 10, 2024

How well do you know the Constitution? Test your knowledge by taking this year's Constitution Day quiz!

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Have more babies! Some say it's necessary, but this demographer isn't convinced

Sept. 9, 2024

As birth rates fall in the U.S. and beyond, a growing ‘pronatalist’ movement contends that people should be having more babies to prevent economic and cultural decline. Leslie Root, a social demographer who studies fertility trends, offers her take.

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Todd Saliman addresses faculty assembly on state funding

Sept. 9, 2024

CU President Todd Saliman discussed state funding, as well as diversity, climate change and freedom of expression in an in-person address to the Boulder Faculty Assembly.

Jessica Rush Leeker

Developing pathways for Black families to engage in engineering practices

Sept. 9, 2024

Jessica Rush Leeker has received a $2 million National Science Foundation grant to advance her research on creating learning resources that promote the participation of Black families in engineering.

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