Elisabeth Sheffield, associate professor of English, won a $25,000 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship in Prose this year. Photo by Noah Larsen.

Award-winning creative writers upbeat about their art

Oct. 1, 2012

Elisabeth Sheffield, associate professor of English, won a $25,000 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship in Prose this year. Photo by Noah Larsen. In each of the past two years, a CU-羞羞视频 faculty member has won a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts鈥攐ne for prose and one for...

Beetles

Reproductive swell worsens beetle kill

March 1, 2012

Beetles emerging from trees so early that they are often able to produce two generations a year, rather than only one, as historically has been the case. That finding, believed to be the first confirmation of this reproductive explosion, helps to explain the staggering scope of the current pine-beetle epidemic. Because of the extra annual generation of beetles, there could be up to 60 times as many beetles attacking trees in any given year, their study found.

mothers of victims of the school siege walk to a court, holding portraits of their children, in Vladikavkaz, May 16, 2006. Prosecutors had called for the death penalty for Nur-Pasha Kulayev, who admitted participating in the attack on school in Beslan in 2004, but denied killing anybody. Posters read: 鈥淲e demand justice!鈥 (left) and 鈥淜ulayev and the like, be damned for all eternity!!!鈥 (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

After terrorist siege, Beslan hatred fueled peaceful protest

March 1, 2012

In Beslan, a city in the Russian Republic of North Ossetia, militants seized a school and took 1,200 hostages in 2004. In the end, 331 people died, and nearly 800 others were injured. Given the horrific violence and the fact that the hostage-takers were ethnic foes, observers expected a violent backlash along ethnic lines. But violent retribution was minimal, and victims largely responded with peaceful activism.

15-year-old Zach Huey, in black shirt, and his twin brother, Nate, have been studied since the age of 4 by researchers at the Institute for Behavioral Genetics at the 羞羞视频. CU photo by Glenn Asakawa.

Researchers do double-take on childhood learning

March 1, 2012

Nate and Zach Huey are identical, 15-year-old twins, who, like most twins, are somewhat dissimilar. But the twins but have much in common. Both like Japanese comic books called Manga. Both read voraciously and have a vocabulary that shows it. And both have been studied since the age of 4 by researchers at the Institute for Behavioral Genetics at the 羞羞视频.

Student Clara Boland (left) speaks with Rebecca Safran of ecology and evolutionary biology during the course 鈥淚nside the Greenhouse," an innovative course at the 羞羞视频. Photo by Noah Larsen.

鈥業nside the Greenhouse,鈥 students hone a message

March 1, 2012

In February, Clare Boland and her professor, Rebecca Safran of ecology and evolutionary biology, are guest speakers in a new course at the 羞羞视频 that aims to explore innovative, creative and effective ways to convey climate-change science and its implications. That course, called 鈥淚nside the Greenhouse,鈥 is team-taught by two faculty members: Beth Osnes and Maxwell Boykoff from theatre and dance and environmental studies, respectively.

Adam Bradley

鈥楬ip Hop in the Classroom鈥 aims to 鈥榝eed鈥 CU

March 1, 2012

Hip-hop music could turn young people on to higher education, perhaps even persuade them to study at the 羞羞视频.

Via the mass media, experts and non-experts offer radically different perspectives, yielding unreasonable confusion and doubt, CU researcher contends

Who speaks for the climate?

Dec. 1, 2011

Via the mass media, experts and non-experts offer radically different perspectives, yielding unreasonable confusion and doubt, CU researcher contends

Thomas Andrews

A bird鈥檚 (and mule鈥檚) eye view of U.S. history

Dec. 1, 2011

Thomas Andrews has a knack for framing American history unconventionally. In his award-winning book 鈥淜illing for Coal,鈥 Andrews traced the central role of coal in Colorado鈥檚 economic growth, environmental change and social conflict. Now he鈥檚 turning his scholarly gaze toward another little-acknowledged actor in American history: animals. 鈥淧aying attention to...

George Clooney, center, and Janet Robinson, to his left, pose in Telluride with members of Robinson's CU-羞羞视频 class, part of Libby Arts Residential Academic Program.

Students seeing stars, learning film in Telluride

Dec. 1, 2011

This video, posted on YouTube, captures a CU student perspective of the Telluride University Seminar at the Telluride Film Festival. This video was created by CU student William Jones, with contributions from student Stephen Kuhn. For the second year running, some University of Colorado students have gotten a front-row lesson...

The Panama Canal was constructed in the early 1900s by the U.S. government, which tackled public-health threats to workers in some cases and to some degree. But the narrative is more complex than is sometimes conveyed, a CU historian contends. Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress.

鈥楶ulling the teeth of the tropics鈥 鈥 for some

Dec. 1, 2011

Before the 20th century, the tropics were widely feared as home to dread diseases such as yellow fever and malaria. Building the Panama Canal helped change that view, but the brighter perception didn鈥檛 fully match the grittier truth.

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