Stephen Graham Jones

Stephen Graham Jones slashes his way into Texas literary history

Sept. 6, 2024

The CU Boulder Ineva Baldwin Professor of English is part of a Texas Literary Hall of Fame induction class that includes Cormac McCarthy and Molly Ivins.

Cooper Baldwin

Scholar learns that ‘language links us all’

Sept. 5, 2024

Political science undergrad Cooper Baldwin wins prestigious U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship to learn ‘one of the most critical languages for future United States policy.'

Uncompahgre Wilderness in Colorado's San Juan Mountains

The Wilderness Act turns 60

Sept. 3, 2024

CU Boulder’s Paul S. Sutter looks back on the history of the Wilderness Act as it approaches its diamond jubilee.

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.

Red exit sign in Hindi and English

From harmony to civil war: when language turns deadly

Aug. 26, 2024

CU Boulder political scientist Jaroslav Tir argues it’s not just what a government says about its ethnic minorities, but also the language it uses that can be threatening.

Party Picture by artist Laurie Simmons

Finding ‘Better Days’ through art

Aug. 20, 2024

New CU Art Museum exhibit highlights the ways in which art meets challenging times and finds the sometimes-elusive silver lining.

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.

Trower simpson

Why did a frozen Earth coincide with an evolutionary spurt?

Aug. 8, 2024

CU Boulder geologists Lizzy Trower and Carl Simpson win $1 million in support from W.M. Keck Foundation to try to solve an evolutionary puzzle and to extend Earth’s temperature record by 2 billion years.

Richard Nixon giving speech resigning the presidency

Remembering Nixon’s resignation, five decades later

Aug. 8, 2024

CU Boulder political science professor Kenneth Bickers reflects on what made the ex-president’s decision to step down following the Watergate scandal a watershed moment in American history and how it has influenced politics today.

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