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For medieval Iberian queens, love was a dangerous sickness

Aug. 13, 2024

In a newly published history of the region’s female monarchs, CU Boulder scholar shows the connections between love, grief and madness.

employee engagement

The case for employee-ownership education in business schools

Aug. 13, 2024

Employee ownership is a proven answer to known problems; I saw it in my own research.

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 Boulder 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.

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Remembering Nixon’s resignation, five decades later

Aug. 8, 2024

CU Boulder 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.

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

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Scholar challenges rigid boundaries in African philosophical thought

July 30, 2024

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

iron ore bands in rock formation

When it comes to rock bands, age does matter

July 25, 2024

Australia’s largest iron ore deposits are 1 billion years younger than previously thought.

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