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Colorado on track for record employment, but the recovery is uneven, CU report says

The emergence of COVID-19 variants — like delta and now omicron — is among the biggest headwinds for the economy, according to Richard Wobbekind, senior economist and faculty director of CU’s...

CPR

Ancient footprints hint at mysterious human relative with a strange walk

For more clues about the trackmaker's identity, the team returned to the Laetoli site, re-discovering and re-excavating the tracks. In a sense, they were following in Mary Leaky's footsteps, says...

National Geographic

Six Questions About Waning Immunity to Covid-19 Answered

“We’re seeing a lot of breakthrough cases,” says Rosemary Rochford, an immunologist at the University of Colorado, Anschutz School of Medicine. “But we don’t see as much breakthrough disease.”...

Smithsonian Magazine

How a new cohort of young, Black historians plan to preserve and tell Colorado’s story

(Dexter) Nelson is among a new cohort of young, Black historians who arrived this fall in Colorado amid a national reckoning over race relations and disputes over how to accurately frame America’s...

The Denver Post

How the Covid-19 Pandemic Changed Employee Training

“You need to have regular reinforcement of what you’ve been learning,” says Wayne Cascio, a professor of management at the University of Colorado Denver’s Business School. “You use it or lose it...

Wall Street Journal

Colorado’s COVID hospitalizations dropped over the weekend. A blip or the start of a trend?

The last time that hospitalizations dropped for three days in a row was Oct. 7-9. They promptly rebounded and rose for the next month, though. It’s too early to know whether the same thing will...

The Denver Post

New $3.6M project to study Front Range climate change impact

Scientists from the University of Colorado Boulder, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, National Center for Atmospheric Research and other institutions will study the impacts of climate...

Daily Camera

Fear of missing out is driving the stock market — and having this surprising effect as well, research finds

So what’s driving investment behavior that has sent the S&P 500 up 25% this year? Is it fear of missing out? Yosef Bonaparte, the director of external affairs in finance and associate...

Market Watch

New research and waning protection: Why Colorado might never reach coronavirus herd immunity

Instead, new research is changing how experts think about immunity to COVID-19, causing some to reevaluate past assumptions about protection and whether the aspired-to goal of herd immunity is...

The Colorado Sun

CU Boulder hosts female-led hackathon for high schoolers

The Atlas Institute at the University of Colorado Boulder hosted it’s first-ever mini hackathon for high school students belonging to underrepresented and marginalized groups — specifically...

Daily Camera

Counseling and Human Services Club at UCCS host coat drive for students, homeless

The Counseling and Human Services Club at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs says the idea behind hosting a coat drive came when some of its members noticed something about our area's...

KRDO

A Colorado program introduces students from diverse backgrounds to the medical field. It’s more important than ever.

Bringing more Spanish speakers into Colorado hospital rooms has only become more critical in the past 19 months as the pandemic has disproportionately affected the state’s population of more than...

The Colorado Sun

Boulder startup moves toward human trials for potentially life-saving oxygen therapy

Boulder-based startup Respirogen, along with University of Colorado Boulder faculty and alumni, are developing a treatment to increase oxygen levels in critically ill patients through the use of a...

Daily Camera

Homelessness in metro Denver isn’t waning. But research from CU Denver and a private think tank offers ideas to help.

… there’s no single solution to resolving the crisis affecting more than 6,000 people in the seven-county metro region, according to researchers who spent months interviewing formerly homeless...

The Colorado Sun

Full-capacity shows and dog auditions: Colorado Shakespeare Festival announces 2022 season

Colorado Shakespeare Festival (CSF) has announced its plans for 2022 and the upcoming season promises five plays — running from June 5 to Aug. 7 — that will be performed in front of full audiences...

Daily Camera

“Look into their eyes”: new CU School of Medicine portrait exhibit presents real people behind the letters LGBTQ+

Carey Candrian, an associate professor at the CU School of Medicine, is the mind behind the portrait series. She studies how communication shapes — and is shaped by — perception, attitudes and...

CPR

Joyce Lebra, first female University of Colorado Boulder history professor, dies at 95

Joyce Lebra, feminist trailblazer, renowned scholar and the University of Colorado Boulder’s first female history professor, died Oct. 10 in Boulder. She was 95…. Born in Minnesota and raised in...

Daily Camera

Boulder Economic Summit: Colorado recovery strong, but headwinds persist

Despite the rapid economic turnaround, headwinds such as new virus variants, supply-chain snags, labor issues and inflation threaten to roll back progress, according to University of Colorado...

Daily Camera

Scream Therapy: The Mental Health Benefits of Horror Movies

“In the 30s, there was a lot of anxiety about what people consumed and whether it transformed them — especially children,” said Andrew Scahill, PhD, an assistant professor in the English...

Healthline

CU scientists will build a space probe for the United Arab Emirates that could explore the origins of the universe

The new mission, if successful, will be an impressive feat of unmanned space travel. Engineers will have to wait until 2028, when Earth and Venus align. Once that happens, they’ll take advantage...

Colorado Public Radio

Annual forum provides economic insights for Colorado Springs businesses, government leaders

Up-to-date economic data and insights from reliable sources never go out of style — and might be more important today than ever before. For those seeking information, the 25th annual University of...

The Gazette

5 recent developments that give doctors hope in the fight against COVID

The battle against COVID-19 is far from over, but Colorado doctors said there are five recent developments that make them hopeful. “We have a bunch of new stuff coming in the pipeline,” said Dr....

KDVR

Nursing Students In Colorado Maintain Some Optimism: ‘Here To Take Care Of You’

“I think people are still going into nursing for all the right reasons,” said Dr. Tammy Spencer, assistant dean of the undergraduate program at the CU College of Nursing and a veteran nurse who...

CBS 4

Six Scholars Honored For Writing Best SCOTUS Brief Of The Year

Six scholars were awarded the Education Law Association’s (ELA) Steinhilber Award last month for writing the best legal brief of the year. Their amicus brief was presented to the U. S. Supreme...

Forbes

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