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Internationally renowned printmaker Melanie Yazzie is one of more than 50 faculty affiliates with the Center for Native American and Indigenous Studies.

Indigenous studies center launching at CU

April 30, 2015

CU-Ƶ has a long history of hosting prominent Native American scholars and artists, and the university itself is situated on what was once Arapaho land. Now the university has joined the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Oklahoma, the University of Minnesota and many other institutions in creating a Native American and indigenous studies program.

CU study suggests that it may be better to end a marriage than to continue in an unhappy one.

Unhappy marriages linked with risk of suicide

April 30, 2015

Love and marriage, as someone once crooned, may go together like a horse and carriage. But if the horse goes one way and the carriage another, the danger of suicide increases. That’s the key finding in an article by four Ƶ researchers published in the most recent issue of the journal Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior.

Marcia Douglas

Grant helps writer develop Kodak moment

April 30, 2015

Marcia Douglas, associate professor of English, has been awarded a prestigious fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts to pen a novel extrapolated from a minute, almost tossed-off, detail in Tell My Horse, a work by Zora Neale Hurston, written while Hurston was on a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Ancient Greek philosophers, including Aristotle, are depicted in this fresco by Raphael. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

Philosopher’s aim: doing justice to Aristotle’s ethics

March 16, 2015

Aristotle may be the most influential philosopher in history, a cornerstone of Western philosophy. But at a time when many see the pursuit of money as a virtue in itself, some might dismiss him as an old Greek hippie. Mitzi Lee, associate professor of philosophy, has developed “creative and persuasive” ideas about understanding Aristotle, and she’s won a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship to complete a book about justice as it relates to Aristotle’s ideas on ethics—and how to live a good life.

Catlos contends that the Mediterranean region was the cradle for a new kind of nationalism.

In between ‘clash of civilizations’ and convivencia

March 16, 2015

Brian Catlos isn’t a big believer in the “clash of civilizations” view of Western history, which posits that Muslim culture and values are fundamentally at odds with those of the so-called West. But neither does he have much truck with the rather nostalgic the idea that peace and harmony prevailed between the three religions during the Middle Ages. He is working on a book-length exploration of this research.

Ariel view of piñon-juniper lands

Student broadens insight into piñon-juniper lands

March 16, 2015

Millions of acres of piñon-juniper woodlands have been subjected to numerous land-management techniques since 1950. The long-term consequences of those actions are still poorly understood, but Miranda Redmond, a CU-Ƶ doctoral student has been working hard to change that.

Andryn Arithson pursuing myriad strategies to success, and when she’s not working in her day job, she pursues shadow puppetry. Image courtesy of Andryn Arithson.

Theatre, business alum does entrepreneurial artistry

March 5, 2015

In days of yore, the arts depended largely on a patronage system. Today, artists often rely on entrepreneurial skills to make a living. With degrees in business and theater, Andryn Arithson is one recent graduate who is making use of multiple business strategies to pursue her love of the performing arts.

CU Theatre and Dance Department’s New York City showcase group (2015). Back row: Sergio King, Devon Johnson, Eddie Jordan, Sydney Bogatz, Megan Maltabano, Jesse Pacheco, Stephanie Spector. On box: Brianna Provda, Keilani Fuqua. Kneeling: Tait Petersen, Nathan Ellgren. Photo courtesy of CU Theatre and Dance.

Theater students prepare to bite the Big Apple

Dec. 15, 2014

A dozen senior CU-Ƶ performance majors auditioned before casting agents through the Actors Connection in New York City this year. The trip was so successful, another group of CU-Ƶ seniors returns next year.

Mannikin sitting on a question mark

Depressed but decisive, anxious and paralyzed

Oct. 6, 2014

While anxiety reduces the ability to choose words, depression is associated with better performance in word selection, CU-Ƶ-led study finds.

Fact or myth street sign

Right or left, partisans get expert opinion wrong

Oct. 6, 2014

Unbiased expert opinion is accepted or rejected depending on reader’s views, CU researchers find.

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