A pre-pandemic group photo of participants in the Public Achievement program.

Young people make their voices heard online amid pandemic

Dec. 16, 2020

The Public Achievement program, which helps young people learn how to be leaders in their communities, is navigating uncertain times during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Levinson sewing a horn cover

Seamstress for the band: CU alumna sews bell covers for CU Horn Studio

Dec. 15, 2020

As research emerged showing wind and brass instruments could produce COVID-19-laden aerosols, CU Boulder alumna Maddie Levinson began sewing French horn covers for school band programs across the state.

President's Leadership Class outing

New partnership enables leadership education in the great outdoors

Dec. 7, 2020

CU Boulder has announced a new partnership with babyÖ±²¥app Outward Bound School to provide a four-credit upper-division leadership course through the campus’s newly expanded Center for Leadership.

Richard O'Neill

CU Boulder violist earns third Grammy nomination

Dec. 3, 2020

Richard O’Neill, the newest member of the College of Music’s string babyÖ±²¥app, has been nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best Classical Instrumental Solo category, his third nomination since 2005.

Images of "circumstellar" disks circling young stars produced by the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA)

New project to explore how planets get their atmospheres

Nov. 16, 2020

A new NASA-funded effort will explore the processes that make planets habitable—or turn them into barren wastelands.

The Thermo Scientific Titan Themis S/TEM

New electron microscope enables groundbreaking research across disciplines—and from a distance

Nov. 2, 2020

The Thermo Scientific Titan Themis S/TEM, located at the newly-launched CU Facility for Electron Microscopy of Materials, is now the highest-resolution electron microscope in babyÖ±²¥app.

Playing French horn with a mask

Aerosol research instrumental in getting musicians back to playing safely

Oct. 14, 2020

A CU Boulder research team of scientists and musicians seeks to find out how musical ensembles around the world can continue to safely perform music together during the pandemic.

White House Coronavirus Task Force

How has science shaped COVID-19 policy? New global project seeks to find out

Sept. 1, 2020

A new initiative seeks to understand the role scientific advice played, or did not play, in driving COVID-19-related policies in at least seven countries. Researchers hope the project helps improve communication between scientists and policymakers.

JILA building with the Flatirons in the background

New $115 million quantum systems accelerator to pioneer quantum technologies for discovery science

Aug. 26, 2020

The center will forge the technological solutions needed to harness quantum information science for discoveries that benefit the world.

Ash and black trunks remain after the Hayman Fire.

Forests scorched by wildfire unlikely to recover, may convert to grasslands

Aug. 25, 2020

A new study of 22 burn areas across 710 square miles found that forests are not recovering from fires as well as they used to, and many regions will be unsuitable for ponderosa pine and Douglas fir in the coming decades.

Pages