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  • SEEC positions CU as global hub for Earth research
    The newly completed Sustainability, Energy and Environment Complex 鈥渆stablishes CU-Boulder as the epicenter for environmental sciences and geosciences research nationally and perhaps worldwide,鈥 says Provost Russ Moore. The center was officially dedicated this month.
  • When regulators rule, are citizens fully apprised?
    When politicians actively seek to gum up or slow down the legislative works in an effort to throw up obstacles to governors or presidents, they often increase the power of executive-branch bureaucracies or courts to make the rules. The result can be a less-informed citizenry, researchers find.
  • CU-Boulder heads off Shakespeare fear...with fun
    Does your stomach experience toil and trouble at the memory of a pinched and scolding high-school English teacher peddling Bardic cod-liver oil? Does the idea of seeing a Shakespeare play threaten to put you to sleep, perchance to dream? Well, 鈥淵ou haven鈥檛 seen 鈥楬amlet鈥 until you鈥檝e seen a 10-year-old do 鈥楬amlet.鈥欌
  • Naomi Sheindal Seidman
    Seidman will be in residence March 9-11 and will present a public lecture titled 鈥淭evye鈥檚 Dream, Or How Traditional Marriage Haunts Modern Romance,鈥 on Thursday, March 10 at 7 p.m. in Old Main Theater on campus.
  • A petroglyph of an eclipse is seen with a wide-angle lens in a photograph at Chaco Canyon, where CU-Boulder researchers captured a rare Aurora Borealis in the southern night sky. Photo courtesy of Fiske Planetarium.
    Having captured the summer solstice and a week鈥檚 worth of sunsets, sunrises and their lunar equivalents from the vantage point of ancient Chacoan people in southwestern Colorado, using parabolic video technology, a multi-disciplinary team from the University of Colorado Boulder counted its June 2015 trip a success.
  • Participants in a modern cell-biology 鈥榖oot camp鈥 in Ghana pause for reflection during the course. Photo courtesy of Dick Macintosh.
    A distinguished professor of biology and a biology alumna recently traveled to the University of Ghana in Legon to participate in a two-week course on modern cell biology for biochemistry graduate students. The duo have taught the course in four African countries. They call the courses modern cell-biology 鈥渂oot camps鈥 and say their goal is the promotion of front-line research in Africa, which has no shortage of disease but a dearth of cutting-edge research on disease.
  • The Gardens of Adonis, an 1888 painting by John Reinhard Wkeguelin depicts women bearing the container-grown plants and festal rose garlands to dispose of in the sea, as part of the festival of Adonis.
    A 蜜桃传媒破解版下载 classicist argues that the festival of Adonis was actually a 鈥渄issent and a critique of important cultural practices.鈥
  • The greenhouse on the roof of the Ramaley Biology building is partly obscured from view at ground level. Up on the roof, it enjoys the full benefit of those famous 300 days of Boulder sunshine annually. Photo by Laura Kriho.
    In the oasis of greenhouses on campus, biology students can make cutting-edge scientific advances, while surrounded by tropical plants in a tranquil setting.
  • Francis Beckwith has been named the fourth Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and Policy at CU-Boulder.
    Francis Beckwith will serve as the Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and Policy for the 2016-17 academic year. He is the fourth person to hold the position.
  • A high-resolution map based on NOAA weather data shows a snapshot of wind energy potential across the United States in 2012. Image by Chris Clack/CIRES.
    A high-resolution map based on NOAA weather data shows a snapshot of wind energy potential across the United States in 2012. Image by Chris Clack/CIRES.The United States could slash greenhouse gas emissions from power production by up to 78 percent
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