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Diversity begets diversity in the alpine

July 19, 2018

As plant communities become more diverse and complex in the high alpine, so to do soil microorganisms, according to a new CU 鶹 study.

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“Cheers to Science” begins this week

July 17, 2018

Scientists are bringing the "science" to "science communication" at "Cheers to Science," a new monthly event beginning this week.

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Drawdown, Act Up! To Bring Environmental Fun to the Masses

July 9, 2018

How to deal with environmental issues is a difficult discussion, but one group at the 鶹 is hoping to bring it to the general public this week through skits and interactive games.

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Researchers find last of universe's missing ordinary matter

June 22, 2018

Scientists have found what may be the universe’s lost sock at the back of the dryer—answering a long-running mystery that astrophysicists have dubbed the “missing baryon problem.”

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Task force to examine role, workload of A&S instructors

June 22, 2018

In the past five decades, the teaching load at CU 鶹 has been increasingly borne by instructors instead of tenured or tenure-track faculty, and the College of Arts and Sciences has formed a task force to recommend best practices.

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Biochemistry and cinema studies now have department status

June 22, 2018

At its regular meeting on Thursday at the CU 鶹 campus, the University of Colorado Board of Regents voted to approve a new online Bachelor of Arts degree in interdisciplinary studies and two new departments for the 鶹 campus.

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Early birds less prone to depression

June 15, 2018

Middle-to-older aged women who are naturally early to bed and early to rise are significantly less likely to develop depression, according to a new study by researchers at 鶹 and the Channing Division of Network Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.

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Erasing borders through art near Korea's demilitarized zone

June 14, 2018

As he’s done so many times before, George Rivera will pack up 117 pieces of art into a suitcase and board a plane heading to a place where rifles can seem more common than paintbrushes.

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Six CU researchers named Boettcher Investigators

June 14, 2018

Two young faculty scientists at CU 鶹 are among seven Colorado researchers who have won $1.41 million in total funding from the Boettcher Foundation’s Webb-Waring Awards program.

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Nobel Laureate, MD-to-be shed light on epigenetic roots of cancer

June 13, 2018

Forty years after researchers first discovered it in fruit flies, a once-obscure cluster of proteins called PRC2 has become a key target for new cancer-fighting drugs, due to its tendency—when mutated—to bind to and silence tumor suppressing genes.

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