Abbie Liel

CU Boulder partners with Notre Dame to improve housing resilience

Oct. 8, 2024

Two longtime friends, CU Boulder鈥檚 Abbie Liel and Notre Dame鈥檚 Susan Ostermann, are leading a study on resilient housing in disaster-prone areas including Maui, Alaska and Puerto Rico. Their research combines Liel鈥檚 expertise in structural engineering with Ostermann鈥檚 background in political science and law.

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Tribal advisor redefining how Western researchers work with Indigenous peoples

Oct. 7, 2024

A CU Boulder tribal advisor discuss how Western science can work with Indigenous people to improve relationships, understanding, and research across cultures.

Anthony Storm working at NASA鈥檚 Johnson Space Center

My landlord is in space: Life as a NASA intern

Oct. 7, 2024

Junior Anthony Storm is hard at work at NASA鈥檚 Johnson Space Center as an intern, developing plans for upcoming tests that will support astronauts in future missions.

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鈥楴obody Wants This鈥� rom-com gets old tropes with a new twist鈥攖he cute rabbi

Oct. 3, 2024

Nice Jewish men wanting to date non-Jewish women has been a trope of U.S. stage and screen for 100 years. Read from CU expert Samira Mehta on The Conversation.

Katya Arquilla

Improving astronaut team performance during lunar operations

Sept. 30, 2024

Katya Arquilla is leading a $1.5 million NASA grant to mitigate the negative effects of communication delays on the performance of astronaut teams for upcoming moon missions.

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Make it 鈥楽TOP鈥�: Does replying to spam texts from politicians really block them?

Sept. 30, 2024

Bridget Barrett, a College of Media, Communication and Information expert, offers advice on taking back your phone this election season.

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With newest laws, Taliban marks Afghan women as 鈥榚asy targets,鈥� scholar says

Sept. 30, 2024

Professor Jennifer Fluri, a feminist political geographer, notes that the growing restrictions on women and girls are echoing strictness not seen since the 1990s.

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Europa here we come: Colorado space instrument headed to Jupiter鈥檚 moon

Sept. 27, 2024

In just a few weeks, NASA鈥檚 Europa Clipper spacecraft will begin its long journey through space, traveling nearly 1.8 billion miles over the span of six years. On board will be the SUrface Dust Analyzer, a gold-plated, bucket-shaped instrument designed and built by a team from Colorado.

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Are modern politicians really making a deal with the devil?

Sept. 27, 2024

In an election season when accusations of 鈥淔austian bargains鈥� are flying, CU Boulder scholar Helmut M眉ller-Sievers reflects on what that really means.

an exoplanet

Potential indicators of life on other planets can be created in a lab

Sept. 27, 2024

Telescopic images often capture traces of gases that may indicate life and habitable planets. But findings from a new CIRES-led study challenge this idea.

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