Spring 2017
- Tom Perkins and JILA team unfold proteins with precise new instrumentation, illuminate 85 percent of previously unknown steps.
- Incorporating wind energy into today’s electrical grid raises a host of questions about wind forecasting, wind-turbine siting, wind-turbine design in hurricane zones; Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder lab is investigating these and other questions.
- Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder research team has found marked health benefits from electric-assist commuter bikes and ‘passive-cycling’; now, the team is studying an under-the-desk cycle that shows similar promise.
- Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ sociologist’s book examines society’s mixed messages to teens about sex In the small, rural Ohio town where Stefanie Mollborn grew up, the prevailing message to teenagers about sex was straightforward: Don’t do it, because it’s morally wrong
- With help from five graduate students, two Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder professors will conduct a careful study of what happens to citizen engagement when previously liberal democratic nations become more repressive.
- Elias Sacks, Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder assistant professor or religious studies, makes a case for the contemporary relevance of an Enlightenment superstar.
- Thora Brylowe told her students they’d complete three separate, significant projects during the semester, each in collaborative fashion. The results would be experienced by the public in three distinct media formats: books, pictures and the internet.
- Political science is the degree that Kreps earned from the University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder in 1993. And it’s for that interest which Kreps, who passed away last April at the age of 45, is memorialized in the newly renovated Ketchum Arts and Sciences Building.
- To Christopher Eagan, growing up in Levittown, N.Y., America’s first and most famous suburb, was nirvana. But after 18 years there, Eagan was ready for a change, and he knew just where he wanted to go: the University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder.
- The College of Arts and Sciences will be embarking on a vital initiative this semester by undertaking a comprehensive strategic planning process.