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From the American heartland, CU-Boulder eyes the EU

Oct. 6, 2014

The Colorado European Union Center of Excellence (CEUCE) is a CU-Boulder organization that promotes understanding of the European Union (EU) and transatlantic relations between the United States and the EU.

Many school districts, particularly in rural areas, lack qualified professionals to address children鈥檚 speech, language and hearing needs via therapy (shown above) or other measures. Photo: iStophoto.

CU helps rural schoolkids with hearing, speech issues

Oct. 6, 2014

In some areas of Colorado, the need for qualified speech-language pathologists outstrips the demand, but CU-Boulder is helping to fill the gap.

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-Boulder-led study finds.

Questions marks around a chasm

How much earthquake risk does fracking pose?

March 1, 2014

U.S. geologists have noted greater frequency of earthquakes in the last four years, in some cases where wastewater is injected deep underground after hydrologic fracturing, but a prominent geologist at CU-Boulder at CU-Boulder says scientists don鈥檛 yet know enough to predict when wastewater injected underground after 鈥渇racking鈥 might cause major earthquakes.

Julie Carr, associate professor of English at CU Boulder, carries her passion for the written word beyond the classroom and into the community. Photo courtesy of Julie Carr.

Prof鈥檚 collaborative event space, Counterpath Press, provides platform for culture and diversity in Denver

March 1, 2014

Julie Carr, associate professor of English at CU Boulder, carries her passion for the written word beyond the classroom and into the community. Photo courtesy of Julie Carr. For Julie Carr, poetry is a practice, a profession and a public service. Not only does she use her expertise as a...

Linguistics Professor Andy Cowell discusses fieldwork with Jonnia Torres, a first-year graduate student in linguistics at CU-Boulder. She is among a team of students who are studying speakers of languages indigenous to Central America.

Linguistic graduate students document languages indigenous to Central America at CU鈥檚 front door

March 1, 2014

Linguistics Professor Andy Cowell discusses fieldwork with Jonnia Torres, a first-year graduate student in linguistics at CU-Boulder. She is among a team of students who are studying speakers of languages indigenous to Central America. Funded in part by a private donor, 乐播传媒 Boulder linguistics graduate students are documenting...

Study of satellite imagery of the world at night, long used as an indication of the wealth of nations, is being refined with other data to give scientists a better picture of human and environmental well-being.

Human well-being becomes clear in dark of night

March 1, 2014

Study of satellite imagery of the world at night, long used as an indication of the wealth of nations, is being refined with other data to give scientists a better picture of human and environmental well-being. Night Light Development Index correlates strongly with the U.N. Human Development Indicator, other welfare...

Fiske Planetarium鈥檚 analog star projector鈥攃alled 鈥淔ritz鈥 after its West German installer鈥攊s being retired after being in service since 1975. As part of the planetarium鈥檚 renovation, a new and more-powerful digital projector is being installed, along with a high-definition screen. The improvements will allow the planetarium to improve the material shown to students and to add a new line of entertainment options at the theater.Fiske Planetarium鈥檚 analog star projector鈥攃alled 鈥淔ritz鈥 after its West German inst

Fiske Planetarium flies into the digital age

Aug. 1, 2013

Since 1975, Fiske Planetarium has been the Johnny Appleseed of astronomy. Each year, 30,000 K-12 students and 4,000 乐播传媒 Boulder students go there to take a front-row seat on the universe.

An artist鈥檚 conception of the Van Allen Probes circling Earth鈥檚 radiation belts. (Image courtesy NASA)

NASA mission involving CU-Boulder discovers particle accelerator in heart of Van Allen radiation belts

July 1, 2013

An artist鈥檚 conception of the Van Allen Probes circling Earth鈥檚 radiation belts. (Image courtesy NASA) Using data from a NASA satellite, a team of scientists led by the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and involving the 乐播传媒 Boulder have discovered a massive particle accelerator in the...

There鈥檚 gold in them thar drawers. Or there was, until recently, at the 乐播传媒 Boulder Division of Continuing Education.

鈥榃hat about the gold?鈥 鈥楿m, what gold?鈥

June 1, 2013

There鈥檚 gold in them thar drawers. Or there was, until recently, at the 乐播传媒 Boulder Division of Continuing Education.

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