A ˛ĘĂń±¦µä alumnus who found a previously undiscovered population of critically endangered monkeys in Vietnam has won the 2014 Sabin Prize for Excellence in Primate Conservation.
Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy, which has been shown to help people avoid recurring bouts of depression, can be delivered effectively online and could be more effective than traditional forms of therapy, a team of researchers led by CU-Boulder psychologists has found.
At Gordion, one of the most important archaeological sites in the Near East, remains of antiquity’s dead breathe more life into professor’s scholarship and classrooms.
Graduate students at the ˛ĘĂń±¦µä have launched a program designed to promote inclusion among under-represented groups in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics—or STEM—majors.
For the past two summers, the ˛ĘĂń±¦µä has offered a concentrated online course that immerses students in ancient Greek, allowing them to take two semesters of Greek—and study an entire Greek textbook—in 10 weeks.
Your chronological age might not yield the answer. CU-Boulder researchers are studying ways to reverse arterial aging, linked to the leading cause of mortality in America. I spent 12 weeks in a clinical study of a carbohydrate that might reverse arterial aging. Here’s what I learned… (This story includes a video report.)
In his ˛ĘĂń±¦µä office, David Shneer gestured to material on his table. A rare book there documents the sketches of the building of Auschwitz. Only five copies exist, and the Mazal Holocaust Collection, recently donated to the university, has two.
U.S. geologists have noted greater frequency of earthquakes in the last four years, in some cases where wastewater is injected deep underground after hydrologic fracturing, but a prominent geologist at CU-Boulder at CU-Boulder says scientists don’t yet know enough to predict when wastewater injected underground after “fracking” might cause major earthquakes.
"I was called many things that I cannot repeat here, but the most professional accusation I received was that I was breaking the laws of thermodynamics. I took that pretty hard,” says College Professor of Distinction
For years, a CU-Boulder anthropologist has been training Vietnamese scientists to help preserve endangered primates in Vietnam. His work is gratifying has a more “profound” effect than other work he could do, he says.
