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The longest and largest controlled burn experiment ever conducted in the Amazon rainforest has yielded new insight into the ways that tropical forests succumb to—and bounce back from—large-scale Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ, according to new research co-authored by a University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder professor.

The University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder announced today that the Center for Western Civilization in the College of Arts and Sciences is now the Center for Western Civilization, Thought and Policy (CWCTP) and incorporates Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ-Boulder’s successful Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and Policy program.

The historic September 2013 storm that triggered widespread flooding across Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ’s Front Range eroded the equivalent of hundreds, or even as much as 1,000 years worth of accumulated sediment from the foothills west of Boulder, researchers at the University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder have discovered.

The humble dust collecting in the average American household harbors a teeming menagerie of bacteria and fungi, and as researchers from the University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder and North Carolina State University have discovered, it may be able to predict not only the geographic region of a given home, but the gender ratio of the occupants and the presence of a pet as well.

A first-of-its-kind, nationally representative study of siblings supports previously published research on unrelated individuals that links specific genotypes to educational attainment among adults in their mid-20s to early 30s.

The University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder has received a $3 million federal grant to develop cooling technology that will enable efficient, low-cost supplementary cooling for thermoelectric power plants.

University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder Provost Russell L. Moore today announced that Dean Philip J. Weiser will step down as dean and return to the faculty of the University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Law School on July 1, 2016.

Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ will record a decrease in oil and gas production in 2015 -- the domino-like result of declines across the industry, according to a new study.

University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ faculty research merited $878.3 million in research awards during the 2014-15 fiscal year, based on preliminary figures, representing a near-record year for the four-campus system.

The University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder was ranked No. 34 in the 2015 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) released today by the Center for World-Class Universities at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.