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Finding ‘Better Days’ through art

Aug. 20, 2024

New CU Art Museum exhibit highlights the ways in which art meets challenging times and finds the sometimes-elusive silver lining.

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Noted animal behaviorist Temple Grandin to speak at disability symposium

Aug. 19, 2024

CSU professor credits her autism for her ability to think in pictures and thereby notice things that most people overlook.

Asian elephants in Thailand's Kui Buri National Park

Studying the elephant-sized issues of living with elephants

Aug. 12, 2024

On World Elephant Day, PhD student and researcher Tyler Nuckols emphasizes that both groups are important in human-elephant coexistence.

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Why did a frozen Earth coincide with an evolutionary spurt?

Aug. 8, 2024

CU ÐßÐßÊÓƵ geologists Lizzy Trower and Carl Simpson win $1 million in support from W.M. Keck Foundation to try to solve an evolutionary puzzle and to extend Earth’s temperature record by 2 billion years.

Richard Nixon giving speech resigning the presidency

Remembering Nixon’s resignation, five decades later

Aug. 8, 2024

CU ÐßÐßÊÓƵ political science professor Kenneth Bickers reflects on what made the ex-president’s decision to step down following the Watergate scandal a watershed moment in American history and how it has influenced politics today.

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Thomas Andrews is new director of the Center of the American West

Aug. 7, 2024

Thomas Andrews, ÐßÐßÊÓƵ professor of history, has been appointed faculty director of the Center of the American West. His appointment became effective in July.

Photos of John Krasinski playing Jim Halpert on "The Office"

Jim Halpert is looking at all of us

Aug. 5, 2024

In a recently published paper, CU ÐßÐßÊÓƵ PhD student Cooper Casale interrogates Jim Halpert’s direct-to-camera gaze in The Office and its similarities to what he calls the ‘fascist look.'

Marble bas-relief of Euripides

Uncovered Euripides fragments are ‘kind of a big deal’

Aug. 1, 2024

CU ÐßÐßÊÓƵ Classics scholars identify previously unknown fragments of two lost tragedies by Greek tragedian Euripides.

African continent on globe

Scholar challenges rigid boundaries in African philosophical thought

July 30, 2024

CU ÐßÐßÊÓƵ PhD candidate Idowu Odeyemi argues that African philosophy should not be limited to a single definition.

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Free bus fare didn’t yield better air

July 29, 2024

New research by CU ÐßÐßÊÓƵ PhD student Grant Webster finds that the free-fare public transit initiative didn’t reduce ground-level ozone, but may have other benefits.

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