Painting of cavemen

Following a ‘Paleo Diet’? Maybe not

Oct. 1, 2011

Those who eat like “cavemen” or follow a “Paleo Diet” will get “Neanderthin,” some weight-loss books contend. But scientists are still figuring out what early hominins actually ate. And while the picture is not complete, it is more complex than previously thought.

World culture at CU

From Mubarak to Mao, CU’s a vanguard of culture, art

Oct. 1, 2011

In one corner of campus, an iconic image of Mao Zedung is punctuated with wood screws. In another venue, a leader of the successful uprising in Egypt this year shared her perspective of the “Arab Spring.” These exemplify the “community and culture” that CU fosters, preserves and celebrates.

Owen Brian Toon, a professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at the University of Colorado. Photo by Noah Larsen.

Childhood questions became lifelong quests

Oct. 1, 2011

Dinosaurs’ demise, Martian environment and Earth’s climate fascinated Brian Toon as a kid, captivated him as a scientist, and propelled him to a wide-ranging research career marked by a common theme: tiny airborne particles Since he was a kid, Owen Brian Toon has puzzled over “weird problems”: What killed the...

Katie Grasha

In small Colorado town, an academic star is born

Oct. 1, 2011

Katie Grasha attended high school in Montrose, a Colorado community nestled in the pastoral Uncompahgre Valley, a place still so rural that its night sky twinkles with stars. Grasha, who recently graduated from the University of Colorado with a degree in astrophysical and planetary sciences, became a hometown ambassador for...

Various students in the classroom

Education emergency's first responders

March 1, 2011

As the ‘gathering storm’ in science and math education approaches ‘Category 5’ and imperils American competitiveness, CU students rush in Ryan O’Block had been considering a career in K-12 teaching since high school, but when he signed up to become an undergraduate “learning assistant” in an introductory physics course at...

People sitting in a living room

Who wants to deliberate?

March 1, 2011

Conventional wisdom suggests that average citizens hate politics, balk at voting even in presidential-election years and are, incidentally, woefully ill-informed. A new study by a team of researchers that includes a CU professor refutes that notion.

Clouds over the ocean

Ocean-air chemistry gets clearer and cloudier

March 1, 2011

CU team finds first conclusive evidence of climate-relevant gases over the remote Pacific Ocean, but why those gases exist where they do is a mystery.

Tim Seastedt

Weevils zap the ‘wicked weed of the West’

March 1, 2011

As startling claims about knapweed’s virulence are retracted, CU researchers show that weed-eating bugs can help control invasive species without herbicides.

Gerard Dillehay, a CU student, suffered a traumatic brain injury in a bicycle accident. He has received support from the Colorado Traumatic Brain Injury Trust Fund, a fund that CU Associate Professor Theresa Hernandez was instrumental in creating. Photo by Noah Larsen.

‘It’s like a second life’

March 1, 2011

CU student one of thousands helped by state Traumatic Brain Injury Trust Fund that enterprising CU neuroscientist helped set up.

Beth Osnes, CU associate professor of theatre and dance, hugs Zinet, an Ethiopian woman. Their lives weave a human tapestry through a new movie, "Mother: Caring Our Way Out of the Population Dilemma."

Mothers help women brake population growth

March 1, 2011

Beth Osnes, CU associate professor of theatre and dance, hugs Zinet, an Ethiopian woman. Their lives weave a human tapestry through a new movie, "Mother: Caring Our Way Out of the Population Dilemma." Two large families, two distant worlds, two women who break tradition. Thereby hangs a tale. Beth Osnes...

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