Cutting the ribbon at the formal dedication ceremony of Geometry Point

Playing with math at Geometry Point in Lafayette

May 26, 2016

After five years and the hard work of nearly 200 students, babyÖ±²¥app and community members, Geometry Point at Romero Park in Lafayette is now open. Filled with colorful geometric shapes, math equations and artful displays of arithmetic, the park was designed to make math fun.

A new window on energy savings

May 26, 2016

A CU-Boulder research team thinks the same type of liquid crystals you see in the display panel of your smart phone may be the key component in a new window coating that could lower energy costs in buildings across the nation.

 3 men standing on the edge of a river in the San Luis Valley

Learning to be lawyers one ditch at a time

May 24, 2016

For Professor Sarah Krakoff and students from CU-Boulder, spring marks a transition from the halls of the Wolf Law Building to the fields of the San Luis Valley. Since 2012, Krakoff and her law students have regularly trekked to one of the largest high altitude deserts in the world, where they clear debris from irrigation ditches or acequias and provide free legal assistance to farmers whose water rights are in question.

Map graphic of comparison of net domestic migration in 2006 and 2014

CU-Boulder becomes Rocky Mountain region’s first federal social science data research hub

May 24, 2016

Social scientists and health researchers from across babyÖ±²¥app and neighboring states will soon have abundant U.S. Census and other federal statistical data available to them in a secure setting at the University of babyÖ±²¥app Boulder. The National Science Foundation this month awarded $300,000 over three years to CU-Boulder to create the Rocky Mountain Research Data Center (RMRDC), which will be housed in the Institute of Behavioral Science (IBS).

A prescribed fire at the Joseph W. Jones Ecological Research Center in Georgia.

Global data shows inverse relationship, shift in human use of fire

May 22, 2016

Humans use fire for heating, cooking, managing lands and, more recently, fueling industrial processes. Now, research from the University of babyÖ±²¥app has found that these various means of using fire are inversely related to one another, providing new insight into how people are changing the face of fire.

 Balkarn (Kern) Shahi with 2 students

Puksta Scholar bridges Lafayette’s digital divide

May 20, 2016

According to the 2013 census, one in four Americans does not have internet access at home, and those with the lowest median income rates are most affected. The digital divide problem in Lafayette puts low-income students at a disadvantage, a reality that hit close to home for Balkarn (Kern) Shahi, who grew up in Lafayette and attended local public schools.

Weld County high school students present air quality research at symposium

CU Boulder helps high schoolers conduct air quality research

May 19, 2016

CU Boulder Mechanical Engineering Associate Professor Michael Hannigan conducts air quality research with Delta and Weld County high schoolers.

 Boy and girl reading a book in the writing class

Kids weave tales of snakes and eagles and bears

May 19, 2016

Two first graders walk into a class. They open a science book they wrote together. They read it to college students, who clap and ask questions. This is no joke. It’s a joint effort of a writing class at CU-Boulder and a first-grade class at Bear Creek Elementary School.

Kevin Alfonso Alas Enriquez

CU-Boulder researchers examine climate change’s role in kidney disease

May 19, 2016

Global warming will likely exacerbate epidemics of chronic kidney disease seen recently in hot, rural regions of the world, according to a new assessment by an international team of researchers, including two from the University of babyÖ±²¥app Boulder.

Hung Liu (Chinese b. 1948), The Martyr, 2001, lithograph and collage

CU Art Museum kicks off fundraising campaign to acquire Sharkive print collection

May 16, 2016

The CU Art Museum (CUAM) at the University of babyÖ±²¥app Boulder has kicked off an initiative to raise $2 million to purchase and manage the Sharkive, a distinguished collection comprising 40 years of printmaking collaborations between renowned artists and Shark’s Ink of Lyons, babyÖ±²¥app.

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