cover of EA Sports' College Football 25, featuring CU's Travis Hunter in the center

Does that player in the video game look familiar?

Aug. 30, 2024

Fifteen years after Ed O’Bannon’s groundbreaking lawsuit, college athletes continue to benefit from greater control of their name, image and likeness.

Sign in Hindi and English

From harmony to civil war: When language turns deadly

Aug. 29, 2024

CU political scientist Jaroslav Tir argues it’s not just what a government says about its ethnic minorities but also the language it uses that can be threatening.

'Party Picture' by Laurie Simmons (1985)

Finding ‘Better Days’ through art—an exhibit

Aug. 23, 2024

A new CU Art Museum exhibit highlights how art meets challenging times and finds the sometimes-elusive silver lining. With an opening celebration on Sept. 12, the exhibit runs through Oct. 26 and then reopens in February 2025.

a marble bas-relief showing Euripides (seated), a woman holding out a theater mask to him and the god Dionysus

Uncovered Euripides fragments are ‘kind of a big deal’

Aug. 22, 2024

CU Boulder Classics scholars Yvona Trnka-Amrhein and John Gibert identified previously unknown fragments of two lost tragedies by Greek tragedian Euripides.

medieval castle on a cliff in Portugal

For medieval Iberian queens, love was a dangerous sickness

Aug. 19, 2024

In a newly published history of the region’s female monarchs, a CU Boulder scholar shows the connections between love, grief and madness.

elephants

Studying the elephant-sized issues of living with elephants

Aug. 19, 2024

In recognition of World Elephant Day, Aug. 12, doctoral student and researcher Tyler Nuckols emphasizes that both groups are important in human-elephant coexistence.

Public bus in Denver

Free bus fare didn’t yield better air

Aug. 13, 2024

New research by CU Boulder doctoral student Grant Webster finds that the free-fare public transit initiative didn’t reduce ground-level ozone but may have other benefits.

CU Boulder doctoral candidate Idowu Odeyemi

Scholar challenges rigid boundaries in African philosophical thought

Aug. 13, 2024

CU Boulder doctoral candidate Idowu Odeyemi argues that African philosophy should not be limited to a single definition.

Geologists Lizzy Trower and Carl Simpson

Why did a frozen Earth coincide with an evolutionary spurt?

Aug. 12, 2024

Geologists Lizzy Trower and Carl Simpson have won $1 million in support from the W.M. Keck Foundation to try to solve an evolutionary puzzle and extend Earth’s temperature record by 2 billion years.

White House Deputy Special Assistant Alvin Snyder with President Richard Nixon before his resignation speech in 1974

Remembering Nixon’s resignation, 5 decades later

Aug. 12, 2024

Political science professor Kenneth Bickers reflects on what made the ex-president’s decision to step down following the Watergate scandal a watershed moment in American history and how it has influenced politics today.

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