Basketball players, arrested for bribery in 1951, at a police station

3 lessons from historic sports-betting scandals

May 20, 2024

Sports gambling creates a windfall but raises questions of integrity. CU expert Jared Bahir Browsh reflects on the history of sports betting in the U.S., offering lessons for the present day, as states continue to legalize. Read more on The Conversation.

Middle school band rehearsing

Notes of growth: CU students lead middle school musicians to success

May 10, 2024

On April 26, the participants of the Middle School Ensemble program fine-tuned their pieces one last time. When the doors opened and the lights dimmed, the middle schoolers giddily looked around for their families and waited for their turn to shine on stage.

Planetesimal orbits around a white dwarf

Hungry, hungry white dwarfs: Solving the puzzle of stellar metal pollution

May 10, 2024

In results reported in a new paper, graduate student Tatsuya Akiba with JILA Fellow and Professor Ann-Marie Madigan and undergraduate student Selah McIntyre believe they’ve found a reason why these stellar zombies eat their nearby planetesimals.

Amir Behzadan demonstrating AI on a monitor

CU Boulder pioneers culturally sensitive AI solutions for disasters

May 10, 2024

Amir Behzadan, professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, hosted a workshop where participants were introduced to human-centered AI applications in disaster management and encouraged to work toward ways to adopt AI-informed solutions.

A sign that says stay home

Social distancing plus vaccines prevented 800,000 COVID deaths, but at great cost

May 9, 2024

Things like lockdowns, school closures and masking worked surprisingly well to contain infections long enough for a vaccine to be developed, new research shows. But with better planning, the authors say, the U.S. could manage future pandemics with less babyÖ±²¥app pain.

Seema Sohi

CU scholar wins support for research on political polarization

May 8, 2024

Associate Professor Seema Sohi is one of 28 Andrew Carnegie fellows who will receive stipends of $200,000 each for research that seeks to understand the polarization of society and how to strengthen democracy.

leukocytes attacking a cancer cell

National Cancer Research Month: 7 CU Boulder discoveries that could improve, save lives

May 8, 2024

From developing new therapies to help patients cope with anxiety to discovering new ways to treat resistant breast cancer and new environmentally friendly methods for producing chemotherapy drugs, CU Boulder researchers are pushing boundaries in cancer research.

Primate with large, brown eyes and big ears in the branches of a tree at night

In South Africa, tiny primates could struggle to adapt to climate change

May 7, 2024

Researchers led by CU Boulder primatologist Michelle Sauther walked the paths of the Lajuma Research Centre in South Africa at night, keeping an eye out for the glowing eyes of galago primates, or bushbabies. The team's findings reveal troubling hints about how small animals may adapt to extreme temperatures.

Illustration of Venus seen from space with colored spheres flying around

Venus has almost no water. A new study may reveal why

May 6, 2024

Billions of years ago, Venus may have held as much water as Earth. Now, it harbors 100,000 times less water than our planet. A new study from planetary scientists at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) dives into how that water disappeared.

Bill Porter appears at the Met Gala in entirely gold beaded attire, including large wings extending beyond his hands.

Is it fashion or costume? Sometimes it’s both

May 6, 2024

Associate Professor Markas Henry reflects on the sometimes vague or even non-existent line between clothing and show—a distintion that can blur at the annual Met Gala.

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