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CU students help battle drug abuse and mental illnesses

They are topics that can be difficult to discuss: Mental illness and drug abuse. But the sometimes taboo topics were front and center during a discussion at the University of Colorado. The problem...

Fox 31

State economy expected to expand in Q2, says CU report

That's according to the latest Leeds Business Confidence Index, a survey of 240 panelists from across the state by the University of Colorado Boulder's Leeds School of Business, released today.

Denver Business Journal

$10.7M CU project calls for 3 new bridges across Boulder Creek

CU spokesman Scott Pribble said the three bridges will go, respectively, at 19th Street, 23rd Street and on the East Campus, which sits between 30th Street and Foothills Parkway south of Arapahoe...

Daily Camera

Impressio and CU Denver just got a grant from the NFL to develop a new type of helmet

Working to combat CTE in the NFL is a big deal - and these locals have been given some money to test an innovative new helmet padding material. Chris Yackaki Yakacki, a mechanical engineering...

9News

GUEST COLUMN: UCCS event teaches students how to think critically

Sadly this important debate has been distorted by the media and pundits who demagogue the issue. It's rare to hear a sober-minded discussion that highlights the merits of each side's position....

The Gazette

National Institutes of Health funds Colorado study of intermittent fasting

Dr. Victoria Catenacci, Associate Professor in the Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Diabetes at UCHealth, will lead the study. “We felt that there was a real gap in the scientific...

9 News

CU Boulder study probes ethics of researchers' use of Twitter

A new study out of the University of Colorado has found that the majority of Twitter users don't know that researchers freely collect and analyze their tweets — even those that have been deleted...

Daily Camera

Medical Marijuana for Older Adults

"As people get older, the way their body processes medication, including marijuana, is different than it was in their 20s," says Laura Borgelt, an associate dean and professor at the University of...

U.S. News and World Report

Olympic gymnast Aly Raisman to speak at CU Boulder during CWA week

Olympic gymnast Aly Raisman is among three people expected to deliver keynote and major addresses during the Conference on World Affairs at the University of Colorado in April. … This year's...

Daily Camera

The Mystery Of A Polio-Like Illness In Colorado May Be Solved

Now, University of Colorado researchers along with colleagues around the world, say they've identified the likely cause. Acute Flaccid Myelitis is a neurological illness that can cause paralysis,...

Colorado Public Radio

CU Boulder eyes $873M budget for next academic year

The University of Colorado Boulder has proposed an $873 million budget to address lacking campus maintenance, secure its insurance funds and compensate faculty among other initiatives for the 2018...

Daily Camera

PERA bill would cut benefits, boost contributions and give future public workers a 401(k)-style option

Colorado state lawmakers on Wednesday debuted a long-awaited bill to cut public employee retirement benefits and boost contributions into the state pension fund, while giving all future members...

The Denver Post

Revolutionary gene therapy created in Colorado to start clinical trials soon

The cutting-edge research comes from Professor Linda Watkins, head of the University of Colorado Neurosciences Group. She founded a biomedical company called Xalud Therapeutics that makes the...

7News

Do I Need to Worry About Radiation From WiFi and Bluetooth Devices?

One problem, says Jerry Phillips, Ph.D., a professor of biochemistry at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs who has studied the potential biologic effects of cell-phone radiation, is...

Consumer Reports

Colorado Shakespeare Festival combats school shootings with ‘Julius Caesar’

"They'll do workshops and role-playing exercises with students, giving them an opportunity to wrestle with the choices the characters are making or that characters could have made instead,"...

Aspen Times

UCCS to open new baseball stadium Friday

UCCS is set to host its first-ever on-campus home baseball game when the university opens its brand new baseball stadium Friday. The stadium, called "Mountain Lion Park."is located off of N....

KOAA

CU Boulder study links climate, tree health

The study, funded by the National Science Foundation, NASA and the Australian Research Council, suggests that seedling establishment in Colorado will continue to decline in coming years....

Daily Camera

The latest news in Alzheimer’s disease research

Dr. Huntington Potter, Professor of Neurology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine says that scientists all over the world are trying to understand the mechanism of Alzheimer’s and to...

9 News

CU Anschutz seeks volunteers to test new gastric balloon for weight loss

They're testing the world's first biodegradable balloon you can swallow to lose weight. It's a less invasive alternative to gastric bypass surgery. Associate professor of gastroenterology at the...

9 News

CU Boulder students crafting drone for studying whales

CU's 12-member Search and Help Aquatic Mammals UAS aerospace engineering student team — the acronym, appropriately, is SHAMU — is trying to raise funds for a project aimed at facilitating...

Daily Camera

Fossil footprints may put lizards on two feet 110 million years ago

Martin Lockley, a paleontologist at the University of Colorado Denver who studies ancient animal tracks, points to alternative explanations. S. hadongensis might have trampled over front prints...

Olympic glow lights up UCHealth Memorial Hospital Central in Colorado Springs

There's a big Olympic flame that lights up a room when Olympic champions walk into it. The warm glow on the faces of seven patients at UCHealth Memorial Hospital Central in Colorado Springs is...

CU Boulder study shows moon's separation from Earth

The study was a collaboration between University of Colorado physics Professor Shijie Zhong and former Boulder researchers Chuan Qin and Roger Phillips. The research was funded by NASA and the...

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