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As Voyager 1鈥檚 mission draws to a close, one planetary scientist reflects on its legacy

March 18, 2024

Planetary scientist Fran Bagenal first encountered NASA鈥檚 Voyager spacecraft during a student job in the late 1970s. Get her take on following these spacecraft for nearly 50 years, as they traveled to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune鈥攁nd beyond the bounds of Earth鈥檚 solar system.

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What Remains founders braid migration dreams, art, stories

March 18, 2024

Growing up on the border shaped the worldviews and life trajectories of four 鈥渕ujeres fronterizas,鈥� or border women, who came together to create the What Remains project. Alumna Adriana Alvarez shares how the project reframes the migrant experience as a global and timeless human experience.

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Secrets from the grave

March 18, 2024

By studying human skeletal remains, bioarchaeologist Sharon DeWitte is opening a new window into past pandemics and giving voice to the voiceless.

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A really gutsy piece of journalism on police response to death of woman

March 15, 2024

This year鈥檚 Nakkula Award for Police Reporting goes to Andy Mannix and the Minnesota Star Tribune for a story that, as one judge put it, 鈥渁 lot of newsrooms would have run screaming away from.鈥�

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Climate change matters to more and more people, could be a deciding factor in the election

March 15, 2024

Research shows that climate change had a significant effect on voting choices in the 2016 and 2020 elections鈥攁nd could also influence the 2024 presidential race. Read from CU expert Matt Burgess on The Conversation.

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The power and possibilities of intertwining healing justice and education

March 12, 2024

Women of color reported experiences such as these to the co-founders of the Healing, Empowerment and Love project: 鈥淒on鈥檛 let them see you cry鈥攊t will make you seem weak;鈥� and 鈥淚 tended to my body only when it could no longer carry me.鈥� The project is exploring ways educators can interlace healing justice with education.

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CU Boulder researchers advance electronic technologies

March 12, 2024

CU Boulder researchers have introduced a new approach that leverages light and integrated photonics to generate microwave signals that could enable entirely new capabilities in communications, navigation and sensing.

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Water in the West: Documenting the change

March 8, 2024

RJ Sangosti and Elliot Ross, former and current Ted Scripps Fellows at CU Boulder鈥檚 Center for Environmental Journalism, use photography to show immediate and long-term water concerns through the rapidly changing Western landscape.

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Early childhood health interventions have 鈥榖ig, multi-generation impacts,鈥� research finds

March 8, 2024

Associate Professor Tania Barham鈥檚 research suggests that it doesn鈥檛 take much to help give impoverished people a better start to life.

Wall in Roman-era village of Silchester in south-central England

鈥楳issing鈥� houses offer a new perspective on Britain鈥檚 Roman period

March 8, 2024

A population estimate considering now-decomposed wooden houses suggests that Silchester, England, may have been typical of towns across the Roman Empire, CU Boulder researcher finds.

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