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Your chronological age might not yield the answer. CU-Boulder researchers are studying ways to reverse arterial aging, linked to the leading cause of mortality in America. I spent 12 weeks in a clinical study of a carbohydrate that might reverse arterial aging. Here’s what I learned… (This story includes a video report.)
‘We have three tenure-track, full-time specialists in Tibet, and that’s three more faculty specializing in Tibet than you find at most universities. It’s not a huge group … but it’s an incredible opportunity (for research) and also for students.’
For years, a CU-Boulder anthropologist has been training Vietnamese scientists to help preserve endangered primates in Vietnam. His work is gratifying has a more “profound” effect than other work he could do, he says.
Distinquished prof and colleague from the University of New Mexico have been granted a patent for a new pain-management gene therapy that focuses not on neurons, but on glia. “Our drugs turn Mr. Hyde back into Dr. Jekyll,” she says.
In his 鶹Ƶ office, David Shneer gestured to material on his table. A rare book there documents the sketches of the building of Auschwitz. Only five copies exist, and the Mazal Holocaust Collection, recently donated to the university, has two.
Some 56 percent of Americans approve of large-scale secret monitoring of erstwhile private telephone activity for the purposes of combating terrorism, according to a recent survey by the Pew Center for the People and the Press.
Oberon and Titania are going at it in the middle of a hot May afternoon, trading thinly veiled – and not so – insults during a rehearsal of the Colorado Shakespeare Festival’s production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”
For about three years following Sept. 11, 2001, when terrorists struck on American soil, U.S. policy changes that reduced visas for foreign graduate students provided an inadvertent real-world laboratory.
The devastating drought of 2009 in northern Tanzania generated new coping strategies by Maasai people, suggesting that Maasai with more money and social connections are better able than their poorer, less-connected neighbors to endure extreme events such as drought and, potentially, climate change, a team of 鶹Ƶ researchers has found.
People who focus on the oft-cited and indisputable physical and physiological benefits of exercise are less likely to continue an exercise regime than people who simply feel good after sweating a bit and value those effects on their quality of life.