Alice will be awarded a $1500. scholarships from Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Environmental Management Society Scholarship Committee. Alice was selected for this scholarship based on her academic performance, experience and extracurricular activities, and demonstrated commitment to a career in the environmental field. See Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Environmental Management Society for more information.
Meredith has been named a Philanthropic Education Organization (P.E.O.) Evelyn K. Aitken Named Scholar. The P.E.O. Scholar Awards (PSA) were established in 1991 to provide substantial merit-based awards for women pursuing doctoral degrees in the U.S. and Canada. Of the 85 doctoral students selected as P.E.O. Scholars in 2015, the...
Emily Yeh's Taming Tibet: Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development named a Foreign Affairs best book of 2014 on Asia and the Pacific.
Ian's piece discusses researcher risk and positionality in the context of his participant-observation of the Taiwan Sunflower and Hong Kong Umbrella Movements.
Western U.S. forests killed by the mountain pine beetle epidemic are no more at risk to burn than healthy Western forests, according to new findings by the University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder that fly in the face of both public perception and policy. The Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ-Boulder study authors looked at the three...
Julia has received a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement award from the National Science Foundation. This grant will support her research on "Avian Community Response to Broad-Scale Ecological Disturbances Across Spruce-Fir Forests".
Bryan Hankinson, a fall 2014 Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ-Boulder student who graduated magna cum laude in Geography, developed his honors thesis by investigating the relationship between an increase in spruce bark beetle population and a decrease in American red squirrel population. Read Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Arts & Sciences Magazine article
Climate change from greenhouse gas emissions could make extreme El Niño events more frequent, according to new research co-led by Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder.
After hosting the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit on campus in 2022, Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder remains a committed educational partner and will be a co-host of the 2025 event in Oxford, England.
Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder researcher and team have discovered why lithium-ion batteries, which power most electronic devices, lose capacity over time. The findings could enable the development of electric vehicles that go far longer without needing a charge.
New research reveals that current krill populations in the Southern Ocean may be insufficient to support the full recovery of whale species if krill harvesting continues at current rates.
Predators not native to Madagascar, such as feral dogs and cats, may pose a serious threat to lemur species—many of which are already facing extinction on this African island.
Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ researchers spent 400 hours under water observing these colorful fish in the Caribbean. They learned they’re smarter, and more neighborly, than previously thought.
An atmospheric river brought warm, humid air to the coldest and driest corner of the planet in 2022, pushing temperatures 70 degrees above average. A new Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder-led study reveals what happened to Antarctica’s smallest animals.
The new international annual review of the world’s climate showed that 2023 was the warmest year on record. A Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder scientist weighs in on how the rising global greenhouse gas concentration is driving climate change and what we can do.