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- Linguistics Professor Andy Cowell discusses fieldwork with Jonnia Torres, a first-year graduate student in linguistics at CU-Boulder. She is among a team of students who are studying speakers of languages indigenous to Central America.Funded in part
- Study of satellite imagery of the world at night, long used as an indication of the wealth of nations, is being refined with other data to give scientists a better picture of human and environmental well-being.Night Light Development Index
- Since 1975, Fiske Planetarium has been the Johnny Appleseed of astronomy. Each year, 30,000 K-12 students and 4,000 University of Colorado Boulder students go there to take a front-row seat on the universe.
- An artist鈥檚 conception of the Van Allen Probes circling Earth鈥檚 radiation belts. (Image courtesy NASA)Using data from a NASA satellite, a team of scientists led by the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and involving the University of
- There鈥檚 gold in them thar drawers. Or there was, until recently, at the University of Colorado Boulder Division of Continuing Education.
- The name may not stick, but the ideas behind a proposed Interdepartmental Program in Fine Arts have stirred enthusiasm in the Film Studies, Art and Art History and Theatre & Dance departments at CU-Boulder. The program could lead to the creation
- East Africa鈥檚 Maasai on the hunt for lions. Some conservation initiatives designed to save lions from being hunted have either failed to work or in some cases appear to have incited Maasai to hunt more lions as a form of political protest, the
- [video:https://youtu.be/ckPvKYofEtc]For actor Jenna Bainbridge, playing Hermia in 鈥淎 Midsummer Night鈥檚 Dream鈥 at this summer鈥檚 Colorado Shakespeare Festival is a perfect fit. Like her character, she鈥檚 spent much of her life pushing against
- A quarter of a century ago, most of the world鈥檚 鈥渦nderachievers鈥 in terms of human development鈥攎easured by such things as life expectancy, education, guaranteed human rights and political freedom鈥攚ere Muslim countries.Human development might be
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