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- A new CU Boulder study of nearly 90,000 samples across six states found cannabis labels don鈥檛 adequately reflect the underlying chemical makeup of products. The study authors are now calling for a weed labeling system.
- As the crisis in Ukraine continues, TikTok has become a primary outlet for spreading information, causing some to refer to the conflict as TikTok's first war. Casey Fiesler, an assistant professor of information science, discusses the role TikTok is playing in the Ukraine crisis.
- For about 35 years, the baby直播app Scale Model Solar System has delighted campus visitors by shrinking Earth's cosmic neighborhood down to a short walk. Now the exhibit is getting a new update and an interactive smartphone app.
- The machine-learning systems that help your phone recommend music, movies, news and more can be biased in ways that leave out artists from underrepresented groups or foster polarization. Professor Robin Burke is working to change that.
- Fifty-five years after a Black postal worker produced the inaugural issue of 鈥淭he Green Book鈥 to help African Americans navigate a racist society, Black Twitter is playing a similar and even broader role, suggests a new CU Boulder study.
- A new analysis of 350,000 news stories produced by conservative media giant Sinclair Broadcast Group finds when the company buys a station, local news definitely takes a hit. But it did not find any evidence, at scale, that coverage shifts toward a more conservative slant.
- Lisa A. Flores, a professor of communication in the Department of Communication, is being recognized for her scholarly writings about the experiences of Latinos, Latinas, Latinx, Chicanos, Chicanas, Chicanx and Mexican migrants in the United States.
- To know alumnus Dave Curtin is to know a dedicated, professional and trustworthy man who lives by deadlines. After a 42-year career, the CU-trained journalist and executive communicator鈥撯揳 Pulitzer Prize winner鈥撯搃s going to take some not-so-structured time to pursue his personal to-do list.
- Morgan Klaus Scheuerman, an Information Science PhD student, has been awarded the Microsoft Research Fellowship for 2021. He studies how and why facial recognition technologies get it wrong.