Curtain rises on CU-Boulder’s third anti-violence school tour

Feb. 25, 2014

Following on the heels of its nationally recognized anti-violence school tours based on “The Tempest” and “Twelfth Night,” the Colorado Shakespeare Festival has hit the road with a new production of “Much Ado About Nothing.”

Nanophononic metamaterial

Nanoscale pillars could radically improve conversion of heat to electricity, say CU-Boulder researchers

Feb. 20, 2014

ֲý Boulder scientists have found a creative way to radically improve thermoelectric materials, a finding that could one day lead to the development of improved solar panels, more energy-efficient cooling equipment, and even the creation of new devices that could turn the vast amounts of heat wasted at power plants into more electricity.

Sloan Research Fellowship latest award for CU-Boulder Professor Gordana Dukovic

Feb. 18, 2014

For ֲý Boulder Assistant Professor Gordana Dukovic of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, the awards just keep rolling in. Today the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announced that Dukovic was one of 126 people in the U.S. and Canada selected for one of the prestigious Sloan Research Fellowships in 2014.

CU-Boulder stem cell research may point to new methods of mitigating muscle loss

Feb. 16, 2014

New findings on why skeletal muscle stem cells stop dividing and renewing muscle mass during aging points up a unique therapeutic opportunity for managing muscle-wasting conditions in humans, says a new ֲý Boulder study.

CU-Boulder invites teachers, kids to be part of Ants in Space experiments on space station

Feb. 13, 2014

Ancient settlements and modern cities follow same rules of development, says CU-Boulder researcher

Feb. 12, 2014

Recently derived equations that describe development patterns in modern urban areas appear to work equally well to describe ancient cities settled thousands of years ago, according to a new study led by a researcher at the ֲý Boulder.

Stephen Kissler

CU-Boulder student wins prestigious Gates scholarship for study at Cambridge University

Feb. 10, 2014

Applied mathematics student Stephen Kissler has received the highly competitive Gates Cambridge Scholarship for doctoral studies at Cambridge University, funded by Microsoft founder Bill Gates.

Amazonian drought conditions add carbon dioxide to the atmosphere

Feb. 5, 2014

As climates change, the lush tropical ecosystems of the Amazon Basin may release more of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than they absorb, according to a new study published Feb. 6 in Nature .

Shy toddlers understand more than their speaking ability indicates, says CU-Boulder study

Feb. 3, 2014

Scientists have known that shy toddlers often have delayed speech, but a new study by the ֲý Boulder shows that the lag in using words does not mean that the children don’t understand what’s being said.

Butterfly photo courtesy Tobin Hammer, ֲý

CU-Boulder researchers sequence world’s first butterfly bacteria, find surprises

Jan. 30, 2014

For the first time ever, a team led by the ֲý Boulder has sequenced the internal bacterial makeup of the three major life stages of a butterfly species, a project that showed some surprising events occur during metamorphosis. The team, led by CU-Boulder doctoral student Tobin Hammer, used powerful DNA sequencing methods to characterize bacterial communities inhabiting caterpillars, pupae and adults of Heliconius erato , commonly known as the red postman butterfly. The red postman is an abundant tropical butterfly found in Central and South America.

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