The Schools of Opportunity project was launched by educators who wanted to highlight public high schools that actively seek to close opportunity gaps through 11 research-proven practices and not...
A year after Esther Sullivan graduated from the University of Chicago – an English major and a produced playwright – Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans. Sullivan volunteered with humanitarian organizations working in the city, “sleeping on a cot in a gutted elementary school and working to clear out people’s flooded homes.”
Three researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have received multiyear grants from the American Cancer Society. Joanna Arch received a two-year grant of $144,000; and Glen Bjerke and Josh...
The words that students highlight in their textbook may soon be used to create customized quizzes and reviews that will help them grasp concepts better. That's because of a new, four-year joint...
David Beckham, an associate professor of medicine in the school’s Division of Infectious Diseases, has been studying mosquito-borne illness, in particular the West Nile virus, for more than a...
A University of Colorado space physicist reports in a new paper that the United States was possibly mere "hours" away from initiating hostilities against the Soviet Union on May 23, 1967, when...
