Social Science
Max Boykoff has an unusual vantage point on the study of climate change. Instead of measuring icecap melt or atmospheric greenhouse-gas levels, he measures social reactions to such events, on a global scale. The results, he and his team of researchers say, help scholars understand the trends in public discourse on climate change.
The University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder has appointed Brian Domitrovic as the Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and Policy for the 2015-16 academic year. He is the third person to be appointed to the position. He hopes to address vexing problems in economic thought.
Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ-Boulder has a long history of hosting prominent Native American scholars and artists, and the university itself is situated on what was once Arapaho land. Now the university has joined the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Oklahoma, the University of Minnesota and many other institutions in creating a Native American and indigenous studies program.
If electric utilities can burn less coal for each kilowatt-hour of electricity produced, they should also emit less carbon dioxide overall. That’s the rationale behind a proposed federal rule designed to decrease power-plant emissions by improving their energy efficiency. But evidence shows the approach does not work.
The Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ in D.C. Program gives students the chance to live, study and work in the capital, and while it attracts political science majors, it’s open to all majors, and internships run the gamut from the humanities, sciences, nonprofits to government service. Just ask these students.
In a national project designed to help communities cope with extreme events, Liesel Ritchie, associate director for research at the Natural Hazards Center in the Institute of Behavioral Science at the University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder, has been chosen by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to serve as a Disaster Resilience Fellow.
Michael Huemer asks his students to imagine being a neighborhood vigilante. Suppose, he says, you live in a crime-ridden neighborhood, and nothing’s being done about it. So you hunt down criminals and lock them in your basement.After awhile, you