Casa de la Experanza students

Launching rockets and STEM dreams for first-generation students

Aug. 17, 2016

Middler-schoolers from Casa de la Esperanza, a housing community for agricultural workers and families, are learning about space and how to build rockets alongside CU students and scientists. Not only that, they're setting themselves up to be the first in their families to pursue higher education.

U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor

US Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor to speak on campus Sept. 2

Aug. 17, 2016

As the guest jurist for the fifth John Paul Stevens Lecture, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor will join a "fireside chat" on Sept. 2 at Macky Auditorium, CU Boulder announced today. The event is hosted by the Byron R. White Center for the Study of American Constitutional Law and is free and open to the campus community and public. Registration is required by Aug. 22.

Koebel building

Leeds School professional MS in supply chain management among Gartner top 25

Aug. 16, 2016

The nationally recognized industry research firm, Gartner Inc. released its bi-annual report of North America's best graduate programs in supply chain management, and the Leeds School of Business's MS program is ranked 22nd for 2016.

Barn swallow in flight

Barn swallows given “makeovers” increase reproductive success

Aug. 15, 2016

If you are a male barn swallow in the United States or the Mediterranean with dark red breast feathers, you’re apt to wow potential mates. But if you have long outer tail feathers in the United States, or short ones in the Mediterranean, the females may not be so impressed...

Shoting star across a night sky

Impressive Perseid meteor shower to peak tonight

Aug. 11, 2016

It’s August and that means the hottest show in the night sky, the Perseid meteor shower, will make it annual appearance – peaking in the pre-dawn hours tonight through Aug. 13.

Thomas Cech

A deep look inside living cells reveals a key cancer process

Aug. 11, 2016

Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have used a process called single-molecule imaging to visualize the process that telomerase, a powerful enzyme that can promote cancer growth, uses to attach itself to the ends of chromosomes.

Law school lecture

With new curriculum, CU Boulder Mini Law School is open for registration

Aug. 9, 2016

Kicking off with a lecture on employment law, the University of Colorado Boulder’s Mini Law School will be offered from 6 to 7:30 p.m. over seven Tuesdays Sept. 13 through Nov. 11.

Solar flair

1967 solar storm nearly took US to brink of war

Aug. 9, 2016

A solar storm that jammed radar and radio communications at the height of the Cold War could have led to a disastrous military conflict if not for the U.S. Air Force’s budding efforts to monitor the sun’s activity, a new study finds.

Bart Foster and Wil Srubar look through a pair of eyeglass lenses with graduate research assistants Sankar Ravichandran and Elizabeth Delesky standing behind them.

Partnership 'looks into' creating new material from eyeglass lens waste

Aug. 4, 2016

Through CU Boulder's Office of Industry Collaboration, entrepreneur Bart Foster has teamed up with members of the campus community to look into an optical solution, how to recycle the byproduct of eyeglass lenses. Made out of three or more types of plastic, currently several tons of the material are dumped into landfills each year.

Aerial photo of Camp Century in Greenland from 1959

Melting ice sheet could release frozen Cold War-era waste

Aug. 4, 2016

Climate change could remobilize abandoned hazardous waste thought to be buried forever beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet, new research finds.

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