stethoscope on hundred dollar bill

Financial adviser to share tips on achieving fiscal health

Sept. 11, 2024

‘Let's CU Well: Building a Secure Financial Future: Strategies for Saving, Investing and Achieving Financial Independence’ is scheduled for Sept. 25 at 1 p.m. via Zoom.

Studio portraits of Aba Arthur

Bringing multitudes to life

Aug. 28, 2024

From Oprah to Wakanda, CU Boulder alum Aba Arthur has charted a career in which the most impressive thing isn’t necessarily the glow of Hollywood, but the joy of finding her voice in a new world that hasn’t been universally welcoming.

Temple Grandin

Noted animal behaviorist Temple Grandin to speak at disability symposium

Aug. 19, 2024

CSU professor credits her autism for her ability to think in pictures and thereby notice things that most people overlook.

Asian elephants in Thailand's Kui Buri National Park

Studying the elephant-sized issues of living with elephants

Aug. 12, 2024

On World Elephant Day, PhD student and researcher Tyler Nuckols emphasizes that both groups are important in human-elephant coexistence.

Olympics fans

Carrying a torch for country and sports

July 25, 2024

As the 2024 Olympics begin in Paris, CU Boulder scholar Jared Bahir Browsh considers how nationalism can inform and influence the games.

collage of Paris landmarks

As it has for centuries, Paris beguiles and beckons

July 19, 2024

With the 2024 Olympics set to open, CU Boulder professor Aimee Kilbane ponders Americans’ long love affair with the City of Light.

A woodcarving depicting the Black Death in Italy

We fear them like the plague

July 18, 2024

After a human case of bubonic plague was confirmed in Pueblo County last week, CU Boulder scholar Thora Brylowe explores why it and all plagues inspire such terror.

Dalton Trumbo speaks before Congress

Remembering CU’s brave one from the Red Scare

July 8, 2024

Caught up in anti-communist hysteria following World War II, former CU Boulder student Dalton Trumbo today is recognized as a fierce proponent of free speech, with a fountain outside the University Memorial Center named in his honor.

Liam Downey and book cover of The Violent Underpinnings of American Society

Violence underpins American life, sociologist contends

May 22, 2024

In new book, CU Boulder researcher Liam Downey argues that different forms of violence produce both consent to the social order and divisions among subordinate social groups, which helps to maintain the power and wealth of economic and political elites.

Jesse Stommel and Undoing the Grade book cover

English alum flunks grades in new book

May 15, 2024

Jesse Stommel compiles two decades of eyebrow-raising in Undoing the Grade: Why We Grade, and How to Stop.

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