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Here's what you need to know about the supply chain

Impacts from the supply chain and inflation will be present for a while, and not just on store shelves, that's according to Scott Van Ness, an instructor at the University of Colorado Colorado...

KOAA

US History classes often don't tell the full story in the eyes of BIPOC communities; parents explain why that can be harmful

"The United States was a territory inhabited by Indigenous people and then there were European settlers who came, colonized, and formed a government. That’s just a fact, you can have feelings...

9 News

CU, NOAA researching air quality in Marshall Fire area

Researchers with the University of Colorado and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are investigating how smoke and ash from the Marshall Fire are affecting air quality in and near...

9 News

Colorado Springs economist weighs in on inflation surge

“It’s multifaceted, that's a part of the problem," said Tatiana Bailey, Director of the University of Colorado - Colorado Springs Economic Forum. "And that's much of the reason that I've been...

KRDO

Nearly 30 percent of Coloradans testing for COVID right now are positive as omicron spreads

“Now is not the time to take risks,” said Dr. Eric Poeschla, chief of infectious diseases at CU's School of Medicine. That means being vaccinated and boosted, wearing a well-fitting N95 mask and...

CPR

CU Study: ‘Blade Runner’ Prosthesis Gives Amputee Sprinters No Clear Advantage Over Non-Amputee Runners

“A lot of assumptions have been made about running prostheses and performance with no data to support them,” said senior author Alena Grabowski, associate professor of integrative physiology at CU...

CBS 4

New center in Colorado Springs offers sports medicine, performance, academics to public

Such conclusions, however, are reductive—and dangerous—interpretations of the science, says Dr. Neil Box, a cancer researcher at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus: “People who are...

The Gazette

No, Sun Exposure Is Not the Secret to Living Longer (Probably)

The aerial ladder resting against the side of William J. Hybl Sports Medicine and Performance Center is an unfriendly sight to those with a fear of heights. Colorado Springs Fire Department Capt....

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Why a fire scientist sees climate fingerprints on the suburban Boulder County fires

Jennifer Balch, a fire scientist and the director of the Earth Lab at the University of Colorado Boulder, said the extent of the damage caught her off guard at first. Then she considered how...

CPR

Could Meditation Strengthen Your Immune System?

"Many previous studies have discussed the positive associations of meditative practices on psychological and physical health," said Alex Presciutti, a clinical psychology Ph.D. candidate at the...

Northwest Indiana Times

Scientists just spotted a massive storm from a sun-like star

But our sun has calmed down a lot over its 4.6-billion-year lifespan, says Yuta Notsu, an astrophysicist at the University of Colorado Boulder and coauthor of the study.  Previous work by...

Popular Science

Colorado MBA programs continue to boost numbers as global interest bounces back

In terms of overall enrollment increases, leading the charge in Colorado are the University of Northern Colorado and CU Denver. UNC’s enrollment, which was just 12 students in 2017, has ballooned...

Denver Business Journal

Alarm sounded about COVID-19 in pregnant women in Colorado

In those early days and weeks, in the absence of certainty, providers thought about COVID-19's impact on pregnant women in the context of other viral illnesses. Flu could be more severe for moms-...

Denver Gazette

CU Boulder’s Fiske Planetarium installs updated version of solar system on campus

The University of Colorado Boulder’s Fiske Planetarium, in collaboration with the Sommers-Bausch Observatory, has installed an updated version of the Colorado Scale Model Solar System with an...

Daily Camera

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

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