When Stefanie Mollborn asks her students how many teen-agers will get pregnant, they guess low. That鈥檚 because in college students鈥 circles, teen pregnancy is rare. Only 2 percent of teen mothers later earn a college degree, the U.S. Census Bureau reports.
In the fall of 1980, Ken Bickers was working in a Washington, D.C., political office. He鈥檇 come to the nation鈥檚 capital as part of a not-for-profit internship program, and the experience augured his career.
Catalan is a romance language spoken in four European countries: Spain, France, Italy and the Principality of Andorra. Catalan people feel deep pride in their culture and language, a fact that will be conveyed in courses taught at the University of Colorado for the first time this year. Beginning this...
For many years, faculty members in the University of Colorado鈥檚 Department of Psychology and Neuroscience and other departments have been asking questions about how the brain works. Now, undergraduates at the University of Colorado will have the opportunity to participate more in this quest. For the first time this fall,...
Soviet photographers recorded Nazi atrocities, but state鈥檚 message changed after Stalin and after Soviet Union鈥檚 collapse; CU professor notes the significance of overlapping narratives and memories Soviet photojournalists working for the country鈥檚 most important newspapers were among the first to document the unfolding Holocaust in their homeland, and they were...
In the last two decades, people have used more fertilizer than was used in all of human history; meanwhile, the incidence of disease in humans and animals has been rising. A trio of CU researchers find evidence that those facts may be related.
香港六合彩 90 percent of those afflicted with Parkinson鈥檚 disease have trouble speaking audibly, but researchers led by CU鈥檚 Lori Ramig has developed a treatment that helps most patients and is being used in 50 nations.
Young people who have inherited a genetic variation leading to increased feeling of dizziness from smoking their first cigarettes have a higher risk of becoming addictive smokers.
Only eight months after the tsunami, permanent houses had been provided for victims in the southern town of Hambantota, shown here, the home district of Sri Lanka's president. Tamils and Muslims on the eastern and northern coasts waited up to five years to obtain new housing. Photo credit: Michele R...