Grace Fleming van Sweringen Baur in her Boulder home. Photo courtesy of Carnegie Branch Library for Local History.

Family sleuth uncovers, renews pioneer’s legacy

Dec. 1, 2010

Grace Fleming van Sweringen Baur chaired the University of Colorado Department of Germanic Languages from 1909 to 1930, when her sudden death ended her tireless service. Hoping to immortalize his wife and her legacy, her grieving husband endowed a scholarship in her name. But other events overshadowed the van Sweringen...

Capitol building in D.C.

Dear Congress: Colorado students will CU in D.C.

Oct. 1, 2010

In the fall of 1980, Ken Bickers was working in a Washington, D.C., political office. He’d come to the nation’s capital as part of a not-for-profit internship program, and the experience augured his career.

From left to Right: Juan Herrero-Senés, Susanna Pérez-Pàmies, Núria Silleras-Fernández and Javier Krauel. Photo by Noah Larsen.

CU helping to preserve Catalan language, culture

Oct. 1, 2010

Catalan is a romance language spoken in four European countries: Spain, France, Italy and the Principality of Andorra. Catalan people feel deep pride in their culture and language, a fact that will be conveyed in courses taught at the University of Colorado for the first time this year. Beginning this...

Don Cooper, associate professor of psychology and neuroscience and co-director of the neuroscience undergraduate program

Buff Brains can now major in neuroscience

Oct. 1, 2010

For many years, faculty members in the University of Colorado’s Department of Psychology and Neuroscience and other departments have been asking questions about how the brain works. Now, undergraduates at the University of Colorado will have the opportunity to participate more in this quest. For the first time this fall,...

Vernon Minor, a professor emeritus of art and art history at the University of Colorado

The joy of leading ‘art-history Outward Bound’

Oct. 1, 2010

Emeritus professor was ‘interdisciplinary’ before it was cool In academic circles, the term “interdisciplinary” may be jargon, but it is also one measure of scholarly excellence. “Interdisciplinary” studies strive to make sense of the world through the lenses of disparate fields—say, astronomy, philosophy and art history. Vernon Minor was championing...

Sona Dimidjian, an assistant professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of Colorado

Bridging the gap between research and clinical therapy

Oct. 1, 2010

Faculty member strives to increase clinical impact of new research and to address under-served population: women of childbearing age who are depressed Women have twice the odds of suffering depression as men, and the chances rise during childbearing years. While the World Health Organization has found that depression is the...

A group from CU enjoys a moment with the actress Laura Linney in Telluride. From left to right: (back row) Louis Zeller, Hank Smith, Jackson Elley, Nathan Wickstrum, Tony Tovar, Richard Montoya, J.T. Birchall, Kenny Karsten. (middle row) Janet Robinson, Andy Bartosch, Lesley Wharton, Laura Linney, Nikki Sewell, Emilee Prado, Braden Waller, Parker Richards, Robert Collins (first row) Kelly Milan, Becca Oliver, Molly Enright, (very front) Michaela Simon and James Gilbert.

Students see stars, broader horizons in Telluride

Oct. 1, 2010

A group from CU enjoys a moment with the actress Laura Linney in Telluride. From left to right: (back row) Louis Zeller, Hank Smith, Jackson Elley, Nathan Wickstrum, Tony Tovar, Richard Montoya, J.T. Birchall, Kenny Karsten. (middle row) Janet Robinson, Andy Bartosch, Lesley Wharton, Laura Linney, Nikki Sewell, Emilee Prado,...

James Mack celebrating life in Moab.

‘Your life stops and starts again’

Oct. 1, 2010

Mom who’s been there sets up scholarship for survivors of childhood cancer Patty Feist recalls with perfect clarity the call, the date, the time and the message that upended her life. It was April 17, 1997, at 10:45 a.m. She was on the job, working as lab coordinator at the...

Running bison

Alas, poor bison, we slew them well

Oct. 1, 2010

CU scholars eye the next frontier of Renaissance literary criticism The disappearing bison of the 19 th century appear far, far removed from Hamlet, prince of Denmark. But Heather James sees a connection, and it is a variation on a theme of extinction. For James, an American painting of stampeding...

Medical procedure

Only as old as your arteries

Oct. 1, 2010

Douglas R. Seals has amassed scientific evidence indicating that exercise, weight loss, good nutrition, including salt restriction, can cut your chances of getting cardiovascular disease. Now he’s researching pills that might have the same effect.

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