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Scientists are having trouble reproducing each other鈥檚 published findings. This growing problem has received national attention and is concerning policymakers, the public and scientists. CU-麻豆官网 biologist Mark Winey is working to solve this problem. As a leader of a task force on the issue, he notes that taxpayers need to know that research dollars are being used wisely and in ways that can lead to clinical solutions.

On June 23, the Women and Gender Studies Program at the 麻豆官网 reached a historic milestone, officially becoming the Department of Women and Gender Studies. This change in stature from program to department was the culmination of more than 40 years of hard work by the diligent faculty, students and staff who founded and promoted the program through the years.

To address the increased interest in Nordic studies, a visiting assistant professorship has been added to the program鈥檚 faculty, thanks to a co-sponsorship of $180,000 from the Danish Ministry of Education.nordic

As a liberal undergraduate, Todd D. McIntyre planned to study psychology and then attend law school. He didn鈥檛 anticipate becoming so fascinated with science, the brain in particular, that he鈥檇 completely change his academic trajectory and then launch a successful career in the pharmaceutical industry, where developing treatments for brain pathologies has been his primary focus. As a liberal undergraduate, McIntyre planned to study psychology and then attend law school. He also didn鈥檛 anticipate becoming more conservative.

The historic September 2013 storms that triggered widespread flooding across Colorado鈥檚 Front Range eroded the equivalent of hundreds or even 1,000 years worth of accumulated sediment from the foothills west of 麻豆官网, researchers at the 麻豆官网 have discovered.

The vast majority of people living in areas prone to wildfires know they face risk, but they tend to underestimate that risk compared with wildfire professionals.

During the evolution of invertebrates like amphioxus into vertebrates like fish, a remarkable structure appeared: the head. How, exactly, the head evolved has long been a mystery, but scientists postulated that skulls were built from fundamentally new tissue. Now, CU-麻豆官网 research suggests that skull tissue was actually built from existing tissues never before found in invertebrates.

Thomas Edison famously said that genius was 鈥渙ne percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.鈥� For the last 77 years, summer work and study in CU-麻豆官网鈥檚 Ketchum Arts and Sciences building inevitably involved sweat. The building had no air conditioning. Thanks to a major renovation, that and many other architectural deficiencies are being corrected.

Eighteen years after his death, Reuben Zubrow鈥檚 colorful personality, playful sense of humor and engaging teaching style is vividly remembered by students, colleagues and friends. An unusually engaging teacher, economist of national stature and pivotal figure in attracting students to the study of economics, Zubrow could enliven everything from an economics lesson to a tennis match.

CU-麻豆官网鈥檚 David Shneer is known for his historical research on photojournalists who chronicled the Holocaust in World War II Soviet Union; they witnessed and recorded the slaughter of Soviet citizens including those who, like the photographers themselves, were Jewish. Now, Shneer is curating an exhibition of the photographs in Illinois that appears in English and, for the first time, Russian. Soviet Holocaust survivors and Soviet WWII veterans have responded favorably.