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Just after midnight on Dec. 22, 2008, 5.4 million cubic yards of coal-fly ash overflowed a retention pond near the Kingston Fossil Plant in Tennessee. The event, which is still being sorted out, made for a perfect case study for Jill Litt's critical-thinking class.

A satellite image of the World Trade Center attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. (Image courtesy: NASA) Terrorism incites fear designed to coerce governments to act, according to definitions of 鈥渢errorism鈥� in U.S. law, in U.N. resolutions and elsewhere. But terrorism often prompts as much anger and retaliation as fear and...

Keeping an extensive collection of great art in storage is like having Stokowski conduct Beethoven in an empty concert hall. It鈥檚 a missed opportunity. Soon, the University of Colorado will have the space to connect its great art with people who savor it. The CU Art Museum has an impressive...

Did humor evolve as a sign of mental fitness? Potential friends and mates flock to funny people. Many a grim, solitary soul can vouch for that. But the possibility that humor evolved in humans as a sign of mental fitness鈥攁nd a way to increase reproductive success鈥攆inds support from a University...

Roe Green and Bud Coleman share a laugh next to a statue of Robert Frost on the CU-Boulder campus. Roe Green frames it this way: She has five oranges. She eats one. She saves one. She gives three away. The fruits of her kindness nourish the arts and more. Green鈥檚...

Richard and Eileen Greenberg believe a major research university should maintain an excellent program in Jewish studies. So does David Shneer, an associate professor of history who runs the University of Colorado鈥檚 new Jewish Studies Program. When the economy collapsed last year, CU鈥檚 fledgling Jewish Studies Program could have suffered...

Students at the University of Colorado are enjoying unprecedented success in gaining admission to U.S. medical schools even as graduates of other universities are experiencing declining rates of admission. This year, the medical-school acceptance rate for CU-Boulder students with bachelor-level degrees is 62 percent, up from 41 percent six years...

African Americans and single mothers with young children compose a disproportionate share of the population living in the most polluted neighborhoods in America, a CU sociologist has found.

As the rubble of the World Trade Center in New York was still smoldering, President George W. Bush told the nation that the terrorists came from a small group of religious extremists who 鈥渉ate our freedoms.鈥� That extremism, he said, 鈥減erverts the peaceful teachings of Islam.鈥� Religious tension is as...

Viewing worlds here, near and far, CU scholars seek answers With his usual irreverence, the author Bill Bryson recently ruminated on the origin of life. 鈥淚t is possible that events and conditions that led to the rise of life on Earth are not quite as extraordinary as we like to...