Antiracism course

Team’s anti-racism course allows thousands to ‘engage with their identity’

June 8, 2021

Anti-racism I and II are available free of charge to any CU 鶹 student or employee through Coursera.

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Researchers find optimal way to pay off student loans

June 4, 2021

CU 鶹 mathematicians created a novel mathematical model and found that a mixture of repayment strategies might be best—depending on how much is borrowed and how much income the borrower has.

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Eating a Western diet? It’s smart to get moving

May 26, 2021

Lifelong aerobic exercise could prevent vascular dysfunction in mice, even those who don’t eat well, CU 鶹 research suggests.

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CU 鶹 announces Center for African and African American Studies

May 20, 2021

CU 鶹 Provost Russell Moore announced today the university has established the Center for African and African American Studies, or CAAAS, (also called “the Cause”) to support teaching and research on the history and culture of people of African descent.

Jadd Tank demonstrates Ellsworth's "over-the-counter counter-terrorism" protocol for avoiding surveillance (protocol No. 5: hiding in furniture) in her performance of "Clytigation" at the Chocolate Factory in November, 2015.

Dancer views her art, in part, through the lens of fake rocks

May 20, 2021

Michelle Ellsworth, recently named a college professor of distinction, discusses the intersection of technology, ancient thinkers and language.

St. Augustine of Hippo

If you think free will has always been a given, think again

May 20, 2021

Robert C. Pasnau, college professor of distinction, outlines the historical rise of and subsequent challenges to the concept of human will.

David Shneer

New public scholarship fund honors late historian David Shneer

May 19, 2021

Eileen and Richard Greenberg created the fund to continue the late scholar’s life’s work.

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CU 鶹 anthropologist wins support for Indigenous history comics

May 14, 2021

Museum Curator Jennifer Shannon garners fellowship to ‘deploy the humanities for the public good’.

Close up of DNA strands

Scientists construct first-ever synthetic DNA-like polymer

May 11, 2021

These synthesized helical covalent polymers represent a huge advance for this critical and understudied field, researchers say.

Osvaldo Villagrana, 24, an integrative physiology major at CU 鶹 gets his first dose of the Moderna vaccine.

Still hesitant to get the shot? 7 COVID vaccine concerns addressed

May 10, 2021

Some worry that the science was rushed. Others question whether the benefits outweigh the risks. Here's what Teresa Foley, a teaching professor of distinction in integrative physiology, tells students, acquaintances and family who are hesitant.

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