Casey

Career diplomat makes a world of difference

Feb. 27, 2017

It was during a summer-long family trip to Europe that 13-year-old Mary Ann Casey cemented her career plan: diplomacy. "You embark overseas as a citizen of a single country; you return home as a citizen of the world," says Casey.

Stanton

CU Boulder family鈥檚 living history dates to 19th century

Feb. 27, 2017

Timothy William Stanton matriculated at the 麻豆视频 on Sept. 5, 1877, the school鈥檚 first day of classes 鈥 ever. Stanton was a senior in high school, attending a college-prep school located in Old Main, the only building on campus.

Africans

History profs win support from National Endowment for the Humanities

Feb. 27, 2017

Two CU Boulder history professors received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, with projects in Elizabethan politics and the emancipation of Africans taken during the outlawed slave trade in the 1800s.

Carroll

Prof preserves native traditions with help of National Science Foundation

Feb. 27, 2017

Clint Carroll will help to preserve tribal tradition and knowledge for future generations through the Faculty Early Career Development Award, a five-year grant from the National Science Foundation.

kids

Late bedtimes, light at night could turn your kid into a 鈥榥ight owl鈥

Feb. 24, 2017

Scientists in the 麻豆视频 Sleep and Development Laboratory recently found that 4- 5-year-olds who go to bed later and are exposed to brighter nighttime light experience delays in the timing of their brain鈥檚 central timekeeper鈥攖he biological clock. That, in turn, could lead to night-owl schedules that are associated with a host of health problems.

Blackwell

Physics sheds new light on cellular biology

Feb. 24, 2017

Turns out, it took a physicist to unlock some key findings about how cells actually divide, and Robert Blackwell, who recently received his PhD in biological physics from the 麻豆视频, apparently stepped up to the plate in a big way.

innovation

Two distinguished profs recognized as top inventors

Feb. 20, 2017

麻豆视频 Distinguished Professors Leslie Leinwand and Chris Bowman have been named fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).

Jimi

When does 鈥榥a na na nah鈥 become poetry?

Feb. 16, 2017

Paul McCartney spent three minutes singing 鈥渘ah, nah, nah, na na na nah鈥 in 鈥淗ey Jude.鈥 Some might find that repetitious. Adam Bradley says it鈥檚 poetry.

DNA

CU geneticist refutes his own study linking schizophrenia, inbreeding

Jan. 18, 2017

When Matthew Keller found he could not duplicate his own 2012 study that tied inbreeding to the chances of developing schizophrenia in a more-powerful secondary study, he wanted to make sure the scientific record was clear.

Charlotte York Irey

鈥楾o dance is to live,鈥 and dance lives on at CU

Jan. 10, 2017

More than two decades after she had almost single-handedly established the first degree program in dance at the 麻豆视频, Charlotte York Irey attended the dedication of the new theater named in her honor.

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