Ebrahim Moosa, an associate professor of Islamic studies at Duke University

Viewing the Koran as holy and historical text

March 1, 2011

Noted scholar of Islam speaks at CU as part of effort to honor Professor Frederick Denny Long before Egyptians rose up against dictator Hosni Mubarak, Egyptian authorities prosecuted an Islamic scholar who argued that Muslims should view the Koran as both a holy text and a historical document. Ebrahim Moosa,...

Various students in the classroom

Education emergency's first responders

March 1, 2011

As the ‘gathering storm’ in science and math education approaches ‘Category 5’ and imperils American competitiveness, CU students rush in Ryan O’Block had been considering a career in K-12 teaching since high school, but when he signed up to become an undergraduate “learning assistant†in an introductory physics course at...

People sitting in a living room

Who wants to deliberate?

March 1, 2011

Conventional wisdom suggests that average citizens hate politics, balk at voting even in presidential-election years and are, incidentally, woefully ill-informed. A new study by a team of researchers that includes a CU professor refutes that notion.

Clouds over the ocean

Ocean-air chemistry gets clearer and cloudier

March 1, 2011

CU team finds first conclusive evidence of climate-relevant gases over the remote Pacific Ocean, but why those gases exist where they do is a mystery.

Tim Seastedt

Weevils zap the ‘wicked weed of the West’

March 1, 2011

As startling claims about knapweed’s virulence are retracted, CU researchers show that weed-eating bugs can help control invasive species without herbicides.

Gerard Dillehay, a CU student, suffered a traumatic brain injury in a bicycle accident. He has received support from the Colorado Traumatic Brain Injury Trust Fund, a fund that CU Associate Professor Theresa Hernandez was instrumental in creating. Photo by Noah Larsen.

‘It’s like a second life’

March 1, 2011

CU student one of thousands helped by state Traumatic Brain Injury Trust Fund that enterprising CU neuroscientist helped set up.

Lake

It came from Mono Lake

Dec. 16, 2010

But is NASA’s finding truly a previously undiscovered form of ‘weird life’ on Earth? Many scientists, including some noted experts at CU, have doubts The New York Times, NASA and the prestigious journal Science announced startling news recently. “Microbe Finds Arsenic Tasty; Redefines Life,†a page-one Times headline proclaimed. The...

Grace Fleming van Sweringen Baur in her Boulder home. Photo courtesy of Carnegie Branch Library for Local History.

Family sleuth uncovers, renews pioneer’s legacy

Dec. 1, 2010

Grace Fleming van Sweringen Baur chaired the University of Colorado Department of Germanic Languages from 1909 to 1930, when her sudden death ended her tireless service. Hoping to immortalize his wife and her legacy, her grieving husband endowed a scholarship in her name. But other events overshadowed the van Sweringen...

Stack of textbooks

To teach your children well

Dec. 1, 2010

With a mixture of art, science and inspiration, stellar CU teachers in classics, physics and philosophy embody the harmony of research and teaching, and their examples add context to the national discourse on ‘academic efficiency’

Genders on a teeter totter

Narrowing the ‘gender gap’ in physics

Dec. 1, 2010

‘Surprising’ finding: spending 15 minutes, twice a semester, writing about music, family or other things women value helps them perform better in introductory courses

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