Collaborating couple pursues next generation of lasers When the first functioning laser was unveiled in 1960, people had no idea it would be used for surgery, let alone in bar-code readers and CD players. Experts speculated that the new device might be used to peel potatoes or to erase typing...
Genes increasing risk for mental disorders should have been weeded out of the gene pool. Why haven’t they been? Schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and other mental disorders usually appear by the time the sufferers are in their reproductive prime, and these people typically have fewer offspring (the currency of natural selection)...
Mountain Research Station chief expands understanding of alpine environments Bill Bowman on Niwot Ridge near the Continental Divide. A caption accompanying this picture on Bowman's web site says, "My field office - where work really gets done." Bill Bowman is a Colorado native whose parents graduated from the University of...
With a lot of help from Jane Butcher and many others Jane Butcher (center) works with students and staff to prepare for the 61st annual Conference on World Affairs. The conference begins April 6th, and is comprised of more than 200 sessions. In 1963, a young Jane Butcher attended a...
After a stroke, Professor Ted Snow thought his career was over. But with the help of CU's Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Science, he has returned to teaching, and a full life.
Leading thinkers and researchers at CU are helping society understand what we know about climate change, how well we know it, what the future might hold, and how the world should react.
First was a riddle: Why did Maxentius, the last pagan emperor of Rome, never occupy his 80-acre villa outside the great city? Then came a different mystery, then evidence spawning new questions. A CU team leads the painstaking search for answers.
