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...
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,...
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.
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
Developing ways to optimize the power of learning, both for man and machine, has been a focus of Michael Mozer’s research for many years. Mozer, a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Institute of Cognitive Science (ICS) at CU Boulder, is studying the most effective ways of teaching so that humans can better consume and retain information.