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  • How old are your arteries?
    Your chronological age might not yield the answer. -Boulder researchers are studying ways to reverse arterial aging, linked to the leading cause of mortality in America. I spent 12 weeks in a clinical study of a carbohydrate that might reverse arterial aging. Here’s what I learned… (This story includes a video report.)
  • Holly Gayley, assistant professor of religious studies at -Boulder, takes in the view near the Amne Machen Range in Tibet. Photo courtesy of Holly Gayley.
    ‘We have three tenure-track, full-time specialists in Tibet, and that’s three more faculty specializing in Tibet than you find at most universities. It’s not a huge group … but it’s an incredible opportunity (for research) and also for students.’
  • Fog envelops the Bidoup Nui Ba National Park Vietnam, above, where -Boulder Professor Herbert Covert has been working to train and collaborate with Vietnamese scientists to survey and strive to protect some of the most endangered primates on Earth. Photo by Herbert Covert.
    For years, a -Boulder anthropologist has been training Vietnamese scientists to help preserve endangered primates in Vietnam. His work is gratifying has a more “profound” effect than other work he could do, he says.
  • Man with dog
    Distinquished prof and colleague from the University of New Mexico have been granted a patent for a new pain-management gene therapy that focuses not on neurons, but on glia. “Our drugs turn Mr. Hyde back into Dr. Jekyll,” she says.
  • David Shneer, -Boulder professor and Jewish Studies program director, displays some of the more than  500,000 pieces of the Mazal Holocaust collection–considered the world’s largest privately held Holocaust archive. The archive collection been donated to -Boulder.  The book in the lower left, Auschitz: Technique and operation of the gas chambers, is one of only five in print is two are part of the collection.  It was compiled after the war to help document the systemic killing. Photo by Glenn Asakawa/Un
    In his University of Colorado Boulder office, David Shneer gestured to material on his table. A rare book there documents the sketches of the building of Auschwitz. Only five copies exist, and the Mazal Holocaust Collection, recently donated to the university, has two.
  • File marked "Top Secret"
    Some 56 percent of Americans approve of large-scale secret monitoring of erstwhile private telephone activity for the purposes of combating terrorism, according to a recent survey by the Pew Center for the People and the Press.
  • Bud Coleman, as Robin Starveling, prepares himself backstage before the final dress rehearsal of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Photo by Zach Andrews.
    Oberon and Titania are going at it in the middle of a hot May afternoon, trading thinly veiled – and not so – insults during a rehearsal of the Colorado Shakespeare Festival’s production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”
  • Graduates on a map
    For about three years following Sept. 11, 2001, when terrorists struck on American soil, U.S. policy changes that reduced visas for foreign graduate students provided an inadvertent real-world laboratory.
  • Maasai pastoralists have adopted coping mechanisms for drought that indicate rising levels of social stratification and might help social scientists understand how these people would adapt to changing climate in Africa. Photo by Mara J. Goldman.
    The devastating drought of 2009 in northern Tanzania generated new coping strategies by Maasai people, suggesting that Maasai with more money and social connections are better able than their poorer, less-connected neighbors to endure extreme events such as drought and, potentially, climate change, a team of University of Colorado Boulder researchers has found.
  • Person running on treadmill
    People who focus on the oft-cited and indisputable physical and physiological benefits of exercise are less likely to continue an exercise regime than people who simply feel good after sweating a bit and value those effects on their quality of life.
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