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Catalan is a romance language spoken in four European countries: Spain, France, Italy and the Principality of Andorra. Catalan people feel deep pride in their culture and language, a fact that will be conveyed in courses taught at the University of Colorado for the first time this year. Beginning this...

For many years, faculty members in the University of Colorado鈥檚 Department of Psychology and Neuroscience and other departments have been asking questions about how the brain works. Now, undergraduates at the University of Colorado will have the opportunity to participate more in this quest. For the first time this fall,...

To the untrained eye, University of Colorado at 麻豆官网 Research Associate Craig Lee鈥檚 recent discovery of a 10,000-year-old wooden hunting weapon might look like a small branch that blew off a tree in a windstorm.

From left to right, Ashley Ballantyne of the University of Colorado at 麻豆官网, Dara Finney of Environment Canada and Natalia Rybczynski of the Canadian Museum of Nature search for fossils in a peat deposit at Strathcona Fiord on Ellesmere Island in Canada's High Arctic. Photo courtesy Dara Finney, Environment Canada...

A mobile fish lab on 麻豆官网 Creek is helping researcher assess the health of fish exposed to endocrine-disrupting chemicals polluting the waterway that can cause male fish to be feminized and decline in numbers. Image courtesy Alan Vajda, University of Colorado Denver. Male fish are taking longer to be 鈥渇eminized鈥�...

Joan Schirle lends expertise to CU Theatre The average 麻豆官网ite may not realize how his body movements speak volumes about demeanor, attitude or mood. Joan Schirle definitely does. While observing her workshop at the CU Theatre recently, I bore witness to how the movements of an actor can truly inform...

Only eight months after the tsunami, permanent houses had been provided for victims in the southern town of Hambantota, shown here, the home district of Sri Lanka's president. Tamils and Muslims on the eastern and northern coasts waited up to five years to obtain new housing. Photo credit: Michele R...

An extremely small RNA molecule created by a University of Colorado team can catalyze a key reaction needed to synthesize proteins, the building blocks of life. The findings could be a substantial step toward understanding 鈥渢he very origin of Earthly life,鈥� the lead researcher contends. The smallest RNA enzyme ever...

Study finds that, for many, drugs work no better than placebos, but resulting firestorm may have obscured nuances Newsweek heralded the 鈥渄epressing news about antidepressants鈥� and suggested that drugs like Prozac are 鈥渂asically expensive Tic Tacs.鈥� CNN also headlined the 鈥渟tartling news鈥� and suggested that 鈥渁ntidepressants don鈥檛 work.鈥� Commentators in...

Gravity always wins, one might think. Avalanches roar and skiers plunge inexorably downhill. But moguls鈥攐r bumps, as they鈥檙e known by skiers鈥攎ove uphill. Just ask lead researcher David Bahr, a Regis University professor and former CU geological sciences PhD student; Tad Pfeffer, a professor of civil, environment, and architectural engineering at...