Illustration of a Viking ship

Treading softly with the soul of a Viking

Dec. 8, 2023

CU Boulder researcher Mathias Nordvig joined “The Ampersand” podcast to discuss animism, Norse mythology and what it means to live on Earth.

an Apollonian circle packing puzzle laser cut from wood

CU students follow their noses, disprove math conjecture

Dec. 6, 2023

Graduate student Summer Haag and junior Clyde Kertzer made major news in the math world while working on a summer research project.

Women participating in a demonstration

Not just angry, but motivated and voting

Dec. 4, 2023

In a new publication, CU Boulder doctoral graduate Kimberly Killen highlights how “angry feminist claims” have the power to inform and mobilize.

Intermediate ceramics student Katie Sieker at Café Aion packing dishes she made.

Form and function with a hummus appetizer

Dec. 4, 2023

A hands-on project lets CU Boulder intermediate ceramics students create functional and unique pieces for Boulder’s CafĂ© Aion restaurant.

'Hektor wirft Paris seine Weichlichkeit vor' by Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein in 1786

‘Alien familiarity’ of ‘The Iliad’ gets a makeover

Dec. 4, 2023

It’s not easy to create a work of literature that truly lasts. In a critically acclaimed new translation of “The Iliad,” CU Boulder classics Professor Laurialan Reitzammer sees the enduring relevance of Homer.

Agnes Beaudry

Mathematician AgnĂšs Beaudry wins high recognition from peers

Nov. 29, 2023

The American Mathematical Society named AgnĂšs Beaudry a fellow. Beaudry is the sixth CU Boulder faculty member to garner this distinction.

Picket line of protesters

Employer-labor relations in the balance

Nov. 28, 2023

Associate Professor Vilja Hulden’s recent book “The Bosses’ Union” highlights how employers organized to fight labor before the New Deal.

Runzhe Li on a horse

Student takes on global DIY climate action

Nov. 27, 2023

CU Boulder senior Runzhe Li is attending the major U.N. climate conference, COP28, as an independent scholar. At CU Boulder, Li is majoring in economics with a minor in atmospheric and oceanic sciences.

Chaka Khan, Aretha Franklin and Donna Summer

Soul sisters, funksters and Afro-disco divas: The heroes of an unsung movement

Nov. 21, 2023

In a new book, CU Boulder researcher Reiland Rabaka focuses on the relationship between the Black Women’s Liberation Movement and its music, heralding pioneers such as Aretha Franklin.

Vintage horror movie posters

Alone in the woods...but not screaming for help

Nov. 17, 2023

CU Boulder sociology instructor Laura Patterson details how feminism is influencing female roles in horror films, expanding them far beyond the “damsel in distress” trope.

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