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CU-Boulder Sources On China And The 2008 Summer Olympics

Associate Professor Timothy Weston of the University of Colorado at Boulder history department offers his views on why hosting the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing is so significant to China in a new podcast.

A University of Colorado at Boulder symposium Aug. 22-23 will feature top national climate scientists, energy experts and environmental journalists discussing the science of climate change and the road toward a viable national energy strategy.

The Alliance for Sustainable Energy, selected yesterday by the U.S. Department of Energy as the next management contractor of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colo., includes the University of Colorado at Boulder as a major university partner.

A University of Colorado at Boulder study of a space-age, low-gravity training machine used by several 2008 Olympic runners showed it reduced impacts on muscles and joints by nearly half when subjects ran at the equivalent of 50 percent of their body weight.

University of Colorado at Boulder Chancellor G.P. "Bud" Peterson today announced that CU-Boulder has increased its fundraising by nearly 80 percent in the past two years, moving from approximately $32 million two years ago to nearly $58 million this past year.

Over the course of the next several months, presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama will try to convince voters that their ideas and policies are best for the United States.

The University of Colorado at Boulder announced today that Elease Robbins, dean of students and associate vice chancellor for student affairs, will retire from her position effective July 18, 2008.

University of Colorado and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration researchers hoping for a unique glimpse into the workings of the massive Greenland ice sheet are undertaking the first unmanned aerial survey of the island's fast-flowing outlet glacier region.

Social media and technologies that support peer-to-peer communication are being used in increasingly creative ways in the aftermath of disasters by people who are either seeking or sharing information that is unavailable from more traditional sources, research by a University of Colorado at Boulder faculty member has found.