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Large or small, nuclear war would wreak havoc on the ocean

May 31, 2023

Study finds that the ocean could never fully recover if a nuclear war were to break out.

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Profs win support to study China’s infrastructure, West African theater

May 30, 2023

Fulbright Global Scholar Awards will enable Tim Oakes of geography and Brian Valente-Quinn of French to spend up to a year in travel, study, research and teaching.

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Historian hones website focused on African slaves who were ‘liberated’ but not freed

May 25, 2023

Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder’s Henry Lovejoy updates LiberatedAfricans.org, which highlights a largely forgotten period of time in the history of African diaspora.

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Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ social ecologist wins prestigious Early Career Fellowship

May 24, 2023

Karen Bailey will present her work on the fraught relationship between elephant and human communities in Thailand when she receives her award at the Ecological Society of America 2023 Annual Meeting.

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Why are pink spring beauties varying shades of pink?

May 17, 2023

Pink spring beauties are ephemerals that sustained the earliest Americans, and selection pressure may hold the clue to color variation.

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Sociologist explores the spiritual side of nurses’ care

May 16, 2023

Don Grant’s new book takes readers inside a hospital where nurses and others tending to patients are also navigating between science and spirituality.

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Karen Gebhardt wins national kudos for online teaching

May 16, 2023

Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder faculty member recognized with national excellence in teaching award from a leading group for professional, continuing and online education.

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Pioneering biologist elected to National Academy of Sciences

May 12, 2023

Gia Voeltz, Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology, changed the way we visualize cells.

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What the White Buffalo Calf tells us about Indigenous history

May 11, 2023

Native Americans have been associated with bison in North America for more than 15,000 years.

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Rising star in physics was discouraged from studying physics

May 10, 2023

As a high school student, Morgan Knuesel was counseled to avoid a class in physics, because it was too ‘hard’; this week, she graduates with a degree in physics, summa cum laude, and is the 2023 outstanding graduate of the College of Arts and Sciences.

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