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...

Reb Zalman founded the Jewish Renewal movement in the 1960s.

Jewish Renewal archives find home at CU

March 1, 2011

Rabbi Zalman Schacter-Shalomi was born in Poland, grew up in Austria, fled Nazi oppression in Europe, was ordained in Chabad Lubavitch Hasidism in America, and launched a new hybrid of Judaism for the world. Reb Zalman, as he is commonly known, founded the Jewish Renewal movement in the 1960s. Described...

Manipulated film

Transforming film into visual poetry

March 1, 2011

New center preserves work of CU filmmaker Stan Brakhage, aims to be a hub for other experimental media Stan Brakhage loved poetry and befriended poets but considered himself a failed poet. Many experts disagreed. He was, they said, a consummate poet—one who spoke in the language of film and measured...

Lake

It came from Mono Lake

Dec. 16, 2010

But is NASA’s finding truly a previously undiscovered form of ‘weird life’ on Earth? Many scientists, including some noted experts at CU, have doubts The New York Times, NASA and the prestigious journal Science announced startling news recently. “Microbe Finds Arsenic Tasty; Redefines Life,” a page-one Times headline proclaimed. The...

Stack of textbooks

To teach your children well

Dec. 1, 2010

With a mixture of art, science and inspiration, stellar CU teachers in classics, physics and philosophy embody the harmony of research and teaching, and their examples add context to the national discourse on ‘academic efficiency’

Genders on a teeter totter

Narrowing the ‘gender gap’ in physics

Dec. 1, 2010

‘Surprising’ finding: spending 15 minutes, twice a semester, writing about music, family or other things women value helps them perform better in introductory courses

Caitlin Epple and Kyle Metcalf pose before going to their high-school prom.

Though gone, Caitlin and Kyle still helping others

Dec. 1, 2010

Caitlin Epple and Kyle Metcalf were bursting with energy, love and promise. Now, those photographs are a testament to two lives lived very well and done too soon.

Masculine male

Fertile women want macho-looking men

Dec. 1, 2010

Effect is more pronounced among women partnered with less-masculine-looking men, researchers find; male intelligence shows no such effect When their romantic partners are not quintessentially masculine, women in their fertile phase are more likely to fantasize about masculine-looking men than are women paired with George Clooney types. But women with...

In 2006, after testing positive for HIV and seeing her CD4 count drop to 159 (from a normal level of about 1,000), Penina Petro started on the road to better health with the help of the medications she received from Sekotoure Hospital, Tanzania, under Global HIV/AIDS Program funding. In 2001-02, CU Professor Keith Maskus helped launch a similar program while serving as lead economist in the Development Research Group at the World Bank. Photo by U.S. Health Resources and Services Adminitration.

Patently beneficial protections, worldwide

Dec. 1, 2010

While stronger intellectual-property laws help economies in rich and poor nations, access to medicine is another issue; CU economist has done groundbreaking work in both areas In 2006, after testing positive for HIV and seeing her CD4 count drop to 159 (from a normal level of about 1,000), Penina Petro...

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