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- Does legalizing recreational marijuana in a state lead its residents to use it, or other substances, more? How does legalization impact careers, family life and mental health? Are some people more vulnerable to its negative impacts than others?
- On Thursday, Oct. 26, Professor Carol Cleland will present the Think! talk "How to Search for Extraterrestrial Life."
- 'Even students studying degrees in computer programming have difficulty doing this from scratch,' PhET Interactive Simulations team member saysScience, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) literacy is difficult for college students, so you
- Pushing for stronger policing instead of smarter policing might encourage unethical law enforcement tactics, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ÆÆ½â°æÏÂÔØ scholar contends.
- The nuclear weapons buildup and the protests against it were for many simply the news of the day, but for two filmmakers from the University of Colorado Boulder it may turn out to be a provocative theme for a historical documentary and multimedia oral-history archive.
- Paleoclimatologist Sarah Crump, a PhD student and INSTARR researcher, studies the effects of climate variability in the Canadian Arctic by analyzing ancient DNA from lake sediment.
- Wrap your mind around this: Neutron stars, the collapsed cores of once-large stars, are thought to be so dense that a teaspoon of one would weigh more than Mt. Everest.
- The role of social media in protests, concepts of privilege and protest in sports, and ways protesters can be most effective will be discussed by a trio of experts at ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ÆÆ½â°æÏÂÔØ Nov. 1, at noon in Old Main Chapel.
- An expert on the American evangelical relationship with God will discuss her scholarly work this week on the University of Colorado Boulder campus.
- A series of participatory forums looking back at American racism by the University of Colorado Boulder’s History Department is proving to be a very popular campus learning experience, with organizers working on the fly make sure as many interested people as possible can attend.