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  • a cu boulder student scales a rock wall at the rec center
     90%Approximate amount of time people spend indoors1Person exercising emits as many chemicals as five resting people6Additional airborne compounds created from sweat-produced amino acids and bleach products69Unique compounds directly emitted
  • a boat in arctic ice
    A CU team froze their ship in Arctic ice in the name of science and storytelling. When the sea ice shifted beneath him, sending a crack straight between his two feet, Matthew Shupe didn’t panic.He calmly looked at his precious scientific
  • illustration by Jeffrey Smith of a plane in front of a skyline
        Jessica Gilman takes to the skies to understand how unprecedented wildfires and the global pandemic are changing the climate and affecting our health.When Colorado went on lockdown last March,
  • mountain range on CU boulder campus
    Campus News Briefs: Leeds + Techstars Elevate, Honoring Inclusive Excellence, Electric Skin - the New FitBit?, and Heard Around Campus qoute.
  • headshot of Carlton Shield Chief Gover
    American Indians and archaeologists have had a long and often fractious history. Carlton Shield Chief Gover is trying to change that.
  • an illustration by Brian Stauffer showing a virus cell above a city skyline with two people looking out their windows.
     Reneé Crown Wellness InstituteThe Renée Crown Wellness Institute at CU Boulder opened in 2019 to perform research and offer programs that develop healthy young people and the adults who support them. It recently unveiled
  • Jennifer Doudna headshot
    Jennifer Doudna smashes the glass ceiling with her historic recognition in chemistry. Doudna, a former CU Boulder postdoc, won the prize for co-development of the genome editing tool CRISPR-Cas9 with French microbiologist Emmanuelle Charpentier — the first time a science Nobel had been won by two women together.
  • Children with tablets
    CU research finds technology use in children and teens may not be as dire as many assume. Kids growing up in the mobile internet era have heard it all, often uttered by well-meaning parents fearing too much screen time could spur lasting problems. But a series of studies by CU Boulder sociology professor Stefanie Mollborn suggests such fears may be overblown.

  • Sabrina Arredondo Mattson (left), senior research associate for the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence, watches gun retailer Jacquelyn Clark post materials from the Gun Shop Project.
    Sabrina Arredondo Mattson and her team plan to use a $2 million grant awarded by the CDC to study the influence that gun shops can have in suicide prevention.
  • Madagascar Cat
    CU professor determines the path of non-native feline
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