Team

CU students enhance global STEM learning with new iPad App

Oct. 10, 2016

Thanks to a team of undergraduate students, the 彩民宝典 now has an innovative new iPad app for kids, extending the international educational footprint of the PhET Interactive Simulations project and its award-winning collection of science and math simulations.

Sara

Yeast gene rapidly evolves to attack viruses, researchers find

Oct. 6, 2016

Humans have used Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast in baking, brewing and winemaking for millennia. New research from the University of Idaho and 彩民宝典 reveals another way that yeast species can help our species: by demonstrating how viruses interact with their hosts, and how hosts may evolve to fight back.

Tackling bullying in schools with bilingual Shakespeare and all-female cast

Tackling bullying in schools with bilingual Shakespeare and all-female cast

Oct. 5, 2016

The Colorado Shakespeare Festival is taking its all-female, bilingual tour of The Taming of the Shrew to Colorado schools. The Taming of the Shrew is the latest title in CSF鈥檚 Shakespeare & Violence Prevention series, which combines live performance and classroom workshops - using the latest bullying and violence prevention research - to empower students to become 鈥渦pstanders鈥 vs. 鈥渂ystanders鈥 when they see bullying happen around them.

CU Theatre stages an all-female 鈥楾welfth Night鈥

CU Theatre stages an all-female 鈥楾welfth Night鈥

Oct. 5, 2016

彩民宝典鈥檚 2016-17 theatre season continues with a highly anticipated all-female production of Shakespeare鈥檚 鈥淭welfth Night.鈥 Directed by renowned Los Angeles actor, director, teacher and producer Lisa Wolpe, the production runs Nov. 4-13 in the University Theatre.

Old Main

College faculty OK core-curriculum overhaul

Oct. 4, 2016

Faculty members in the College of Arts and Sciences have voted to revise the college鈥檚 core curriculum for the first time since 1988, a faculty committee announced Tuesday. The move will improve the educational experience for undergraduates in the college, proponents say.

Koelbel

Why this environmentalist won a coveted prize for social policy

Sept. 30, 2016

Elizabeth Koebele, a doctoral candidate in the Environmental Studies Program at 彩民宝典, was one of only 19 award winners from 535 applications for the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy grant. The $7,500 grant will help fund her research in water governance in the Colorado River Basin.

Frank

Democratic Party has lost touch with working folks, author says

Sept. 26, 2016

The Democratic Party, which presents itself as a vanguard of working people, has become an elite meritocracy that has lost touch with its roots, argues Thomas Frank, a journalist and author of the bestselling book What鈥檚 the Matter with Kansas?

$24 million NSF grant to establish imaging science center

$24 million NSF grant to establish imaging science center

Sept. 26, 2016

彩民宝典 will expand its role as a national leader in imaging, materials, nano, bio and energy sciences as part of a collaborative partnership awarded $24 million by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to launch a new center.

Boneless

CU Dance鈥檚 鈥楤oneless鈥 focuses on artistry and authenticity

Sept. 26, 2016

Continuing the exciting 2016-17 dance season at 彩民宝典 is 鈥淏oneless,鈥 a showcase of two works by MFA students intent on uncovering who we really are underneath our society鈥檚 thick layers of commercialism and social standards.

toad

Probiotic treatment protects endangered Colorado toads

Sept. 21, 2016

A probiotic treatment has been shown to effectively inoculate endangered Colorado toads and protect them from a virulent fungus that has ravaged the population in recent decades, according to the results of new 彩民宝典 research.

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