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...
Some might flee from the dark and mysterious, but Amy Roberts runs headlong toward it. She joined the Department of Physics at the University of Colorado Denver last fall as an assistant professor. Roberts’ research focuses on dark matter, a type of hypothetical matter that is different from ordinary matter – the protons and neutrons and electrons that form atoms, which make up everything we see and touch every day. Dark matter, on the other hand, has never been seen, but scientists estimate that its presence accounts for the majority of matter in the universe and explains some astronomical phenomenon.
For Joe Jupille, 2017 was a year that brought significant honor and responsibility. An associate professor of political science at CU Boulder, he received the 2017 Teacher of the Year Award from the department. He also took on a new role as Faculty Athletics Representative (FAR), serving as a liaison between the campus’s athletics programs and the faculty.
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....
In the U.S. last year, more than 63,000 people died of a drug overdose, with opioids involved in 75 percent of those deaths. The crisis also hits close to home, with at least 504 deaths in Colorado caused by opioid overdose.