A sign in Leadville’s Evergreen Cemetery calls it the Old Catholic section, while period maps list it as the Free Catholic section. CU on the Air host Ken McConnellogue talks with Jim Walsh, assistant professor of political science at CU Denver, who for more than decade has researched Leadville’s Irish community during the late 1800s silver mining boom. Walsh is working with the Irish government and the Colorado Irish community to have a memorial built to honor the immigrants who were so important to advancing the state.
A first-of-its kind program at the University of Colorado Denver is helping people like Lynette Bates become the leader in higher education she wished she knew when she was an undergraduate.
Tornado warnings save lives. But to improve the warning time, forecasters need information about tornado genesis - how they begin. That's where CU Boulder's drones come in.
“This is really a completely different approach than anything that has been tried before,” said Huntington Potter, director of the Rocky Mountain center, which is part of the University of...