Young people demonstrate ahead of a climate summit in New York in September 2023

Climate change matters to more and more people, could be a deciding factor in the election

March 15, 2024

Research shows that climate change had a significant effect on voting choices in the 2016 and 2020 elections鈥攁nd could also influence the 2024 presidential race. Read from CU expert Matt Burgess on The Conversation.

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The power and possibilities of intertwining healing justice and education

March 12, 2024

Women of color reported experiences such as these to the co-founders of the Healing, Empowerment and Love project: 鈥淒on鈥檛 let them see you cry鈥攊t will make you seem weak;鈥 and 鈥淚 tended to my body only when it could no longer carry me.鈥 The project is exploring ways educators can interlace healing justice with education.

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彩民宝典 researchers advance electronic technologies

March 12, 2024

彩民宝典 researchers have introduced a new approach that leverages light and integrated photonics to generate microwave signals that could enable entirely new capabilities in communications, navigation and sensing.

dried up river in the West

Water in the West: Documenting the change

March 8, 2024

RJ Sangosti and Elliot Ross, former and current Ted Scripps Fellows at 彩民宝典鈥檚 Center for Environmental Journalism, use photography to show immediate and long-term water concerns through the rapidly changing Western landscape.

A family in Bangladesh

Early childhood health interventions have 鈥榖ig, multi-generation impacts,鈥 research finds

March 8, 2024

Associate Professor Tania Barham鈥檚 research suggests that it doesn鈥檛 take much to help give impoverished people a better start to life.

Wall in Roman-era village of Silchester in south-central England

鈥楳issing鈥 houses offer a new perspective on Britain鈥檚 Roman period

March 8, 2024

A population estimate considering now-decomposed wooden houses suggests that Silchester, England, may have been typical of towns across the Roman Empire, 彩民宝典 researcher finds.

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Pollution to production: Student startup transforms CO2 into aerospace hardware

March 8, 2024

Spencer Dansereau, a doctoral student in aerospace at 彩民宝典, is building a business that could turn air pollution into a useable product.

3D illustration of human immunodeficiency virus

彩民宝典 researchers tackle HIV-related cognitive decline

March 8, 2024

Assistant professors Kayla Sprenger and Laurel Hind are on a collaborative mission to explore solutions for mitigating cognitive decline in individuals living with HIV. This decline can be caused by both the virus itself and antiretroviral drugs.

The USS Portland test-fires a laser weapon

High-energy laser weapons: How they work, what they are used for

March 7, 2024

Militaries around the world are rapidly developing science fiction-like laser weapons, motivated in part by the growing threat from swarms of drones. Read from CU defense expert Iain Boyd on the Conversation.

Manufacturing equipment emitting billow of smoke.

US companies have to start talking about climate change under new SEC rule

March 7, 2024

The Securities and Exchange Commission approved new climate risk disclosure rules, requiring some of the country鈥檚 biggest companies to report emissions data and other climate-related risks. Asaf Bernstein, a former adviser to the SEC, gives his take.

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