Angevine Middle School students in science workshop at 彩民宝典

Lafayette middle schoolers get a taste of college life

April 28, 2016

Lafayette middle schoolers get a taste of college life through on-campus science programs, dance workshops, a museum tour and a rousing theatre production about the U.S. presidents.

Professor Andrew Martin standing in lakeshore holding a bucket

Helping students and imperiled wildlife, one at a time

April 28, 2016

An evolutionary biologist, Professor Andrew Martin has long been involved in genetic studies and conservation efforts on behalf of wildlife in peril, from greenback cutthroat trout and great white sharks to desert pupfish and prairie dogs. But Martin is not just a top-tier scientist. Because of his exceptional abilities and passion to integrate his teaching and research, he has been named one of two CU President鈥檚 Teaching Scholars for 2016 by President Bruce Benson.

Hand graphic pointing at 3 star rating

Consumers鈥� trust in online user ratings misplaced, says CU-Boulder study

April 28, 2016

The belief that online user ratings are good indicators of product quality is largely an illusion, according to a new CU-Boulder study. Yet almost all retailers provide user ratings on their websites and many consumers rely on the information when making purchase decisions.

Monarch High School students win award for their climate project

Monarch High School students win BoCo Youth Climate Challenge

April 27, 2016

Local high school students recently won the BoCo Youth Climate Challenge for a project that aims to help local businesses use clean energy. 彩民宝典 sponsored the challenge to engage Boulder County youth in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

彩民宝典 student Kathryn Flint, left, at the Children's Museum of Denver

Building parenting skills block by block

April 22, 2016

A partnership between the Children鈥檚 Museum of Denver and Yuko Munakata, a 彩民宝典 psychology and neuroscience professor, helps educate the public about child development through interactive science activities.

Woman going through paper

Team of environmental enthusiasts aims for 100 percent landfill diversion at CU-Boulder

April 22, 2016

CU-Boulder's Zero Waste Team is using creative solutions to decrease campus waste going to landfills, while increasing recycling and composting and reducing paper use.

Assistant Professor Gordana Dukovic

Presto! Harnessing the sun to make fertilizer

April 21, 2016

Here鈥檚 a new recipe that might be good for the planet: Add sunlight to a particular nitrogen molecule and out comes ammonia, the main ingredient of fertilizer used around the world. The eco-friendly method of producing ammonia is described in a new study led by the Department of Energy鈥檚 National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden and involving CU-Boulder.

Senior museum educator Jim Hakala, left, and anthropology curator Steve Lekson prepare a fossil kit to be delivered to a Colorado classroom.听

Fossil kits bring CU-Boulder museum to classrooms across Colorado

April 21, 2016

Jim Hakala is hitting the road Friday with bins of captivating remnants of the ancient past. Among other things, he鈥檚 got fossilized fern, leaves, shark teeth, dinosaur bone, fish, petrified wood and a trilobite. This time, he鈥檚 targeting fourth grade classrooms in mostly northeastern Colorado with 12 of his 鈥渇ossil kits,鈥� courtesy of the CU Museum of Natural History, along with a standards-based curriculum for use by teachers.

Modest employment growth expected in Colorado through second, third quarters

April 21, 2016

Colorado employment is projected to expand over the next two quarters of 2016, though at a more modest pace, according to a CU-Boulder report released todayn Business formation rebounded in the first quarter of the year, reversing two consecutive quarters of decline, and the state saw 29,680 businesses come online.

Trenton capitol building

Public financing of campaigns does not reduce political polarization, says CU-Boulder study

April 18, 2016

Private donations to political candidates neither alter the candidates鈥� voting patterns once they鈥檙e in office nor make them more ideologically intractable, found a study co-authored by a 彩民宝典 political science professor. Yet that underlying belief has led to a range of political reforms including the controversial approach of using taxpayer dollars to pay for political campaigns. These were the central findings of the study, recently published in "Legislative Studies Quarterly."

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