A high school student throws a beanbag while wearing vision-distorting goggles

Rural Colorado students get a taste of college life

June 1, 2017

Middle and high school students from Byers, Elizabeth, Kiowa, Hugo, Limon, Burlington, and other regions spent three days at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê this week as part of a program aimed at giving talented and gifted youth from rural districts a preview of possibilities to come.

Tethered balloon kite above the trees in Portugal

Global wind-mapping project commences in Portugal

June 1, 2017

An international team that includes Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê researchers has begun the world's largest wind-mapping project in Portugal, in hopes of better understanding wind behavior across the globe.

Colorado Shakespeare Festival performs Julius Caesar during school tour

Colorado Shakespeare Festival receives grant for outreach program

June 1, 2017

The university's Colorado Shakespeare Festival has been awarded $25,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to perform the works of William Shakespeare for middle- and high-school students.

dragon spacecraft

SpaceX launches CU-built heart, bone health experiments to space station

May 31, 2017

A SpaceX rocket launched two Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê-built payloads to the International Space Station (ISS) from Florida, delivering equipment to look at changes in cardiovascular stem cells in microgravity and study a new bone-building drug.

Sharon Matusik

Matusik named Leeds School of Business dean

May 30, 2017

University of Colorado Boulder Provost Russell L. Moore today announced the appointment of Sharon F. Matusik as the dean of the Leeds School of Business. Matusik has been serving as the interim dean since January 2017. She assumes the permanent role Thursday.

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High-altitude balloon experiments could enable hypersonic flight

May 24, 2017

A group of universities led by the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences has received a five year, $7.5 million Department of Defense grant to investigate the extreme altitudes where hypersonic planes would fly.

an airplane on the runway at boulder municipal airport

Taking flight with ultracold atoms

May 19, 2017

Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê and JILA physicists take laser-cooled atoms airborne as part of an effort to improve aerospace sensing and navigation.

A shadow image of a prisoner

Domestic terrorists, gang members have little in common, study shows

May 18, 2017

Domestic extremists in the U.S. are older, better educated, more affluent, more religious and more likely to be white than street gang members are, according to the first comprehensive study to compare the two groups.

Professor Nabil Echchaibi on KGNU radio

Religion in the digital age focus of new research

May 18, 2017

The Center for Media, Religion and Culture (CMRC) at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê has been awarded $500,000 from the Henry Luce Foundation to explore the changing nature of religious scholarship in the digital age.

Illustration of Van Allen barrier shrouding Earth

Probes spot human-made barrier shrouding Earth

May 17, 2017

Humans have long been shaping Earth’s landscape, but we can shape our near-space environment as well. A certain type of radio communications have been found to interact with particles in space, affecting how and where they move. Watch the video.

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