Posters of healthcare worker

When will the听pandemic end? 4 essential reads on past pandemics, what the future could听bring

Jan. 27, 2022

When鈥攊f ever鈥攊s it realistic to expect SARS-CoV-2 will recede from the headlines and daily life? Read four essential stories from The Conversation archive.

Engineering building

Researchers explore intersections of language, education and artificial intelligence

Jan. 26, 2022

Researchers at CU Boulder are using artificial intelligence to develop digital models representing children who learn one language at home early in life and then begin learning another language in preschool.

Children play at a light table for part of a sleep study

Even minor exposure to light before bedtime may disrupt a preschooler鈥檚 sleep

Jan. 25, 2022

A new study shows when preschoolers are exposed to even dim light in the hour before bedtime it can significantly lower levels of the sleep-promoting hormone melatonin, potentially disrupting sleep. The research serves as a reminder to parents to turn off electronics and dim the lights to promote healthy sleep in children.

interdisciplinary team of students

麻豆淫院 crowdfunding to design, build the green home of the future

Jan. 25, 2022

An interdisciplinary team of students is building a super energy-efficient home for a national competition, and they need your help to be successful.

Dog nose

From odor to action鈥攈ow smells are processed in the brain, influence behavior

Jan. 25, 2022

Understanding how the brain translates smells into behavior change can help advance search and rescue technology and treatments for neurological conditions. Professor John Crimaldi and colleagues share on The Conversation.

Avery Hatch monitoring air quality in a home spared by the Marshall Fire

What the Marshall Fire can teach us as we prepare for future climate catastrophes

Jan. 25, 2022

CU Boulder researchers from across campus have pivoted to study the aftermath of the Marshall Fire, hoping to learn from a tragedy in their own backyard and help prepare the country for the next 鈥渃limate fire.鈥�

COVID variants

Alpha then delta and now omicron鈥�6 questions answered as COVID听cases surge again

Jan. 24, 2022

People are buzzing with questions about the omicron variant and whether it could help usher in herd immunity. A team of CU Boulder virologists deciphers the latest findings on The Conversation.

CU Boulder undergraduate students, left to right, Adrian Bryant and听Rithik Gangopadhyay work in the mission operations center for IXPE.

麻豆淫院 operate $214M spacecraft. 鈥業t鈥檚 like what you see in the movies.鈥�

Jan. 18, 2022

In December, students and professionals sat in a mission operations center on campus to watch NASA's new Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer satellite blast off into space. But for the dedicated individuals managing the mission operations, the hard work had just begun.

A toy donation station, for families effected by the Marshal fire, is set up in the Northeast parking lot of SEEC.

If you really listen, survivors and emergency responders will tell you what they need

Jan. 13, 2022

Survivors of events like the recent Marshall Fire may face what sociologist Lori Peek called "the long tail of disaster-related trauma." She argues these survivors need mental health resources and support from friends and family long after the television cameras are gone.

President Lyndon B. Johnson, right, talks with Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders

How the Vietnam War pushed MLK to embrace global justice, not only civil rights at home

Jan. 13, 2022

Martin Luther King Jr.鈥檚 vision for nonviolence included abolishing what he called triple evils鈥攔acism, poverty and militarism. CU expert Anthony Siracusa shares on The Conversation.

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