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- Skim milk was 10 cents a gallon, and spaghetti was cheap. “So, we had a lot of skim milk, and we ate a lot of spaghetti”—with no sauce.
- Here’s a little story about a little Hollywood movie, and a bigger story about how several Boulder alums have forged Hollywood careers.
- Postdoctoral researchers and doctoral students to increase their knowledge of demography and genetics in one of the first programs of its kind.
- Low levels of inorganic arsenic, thought safe, might be harming American Indian communities in the western United States.
- Wildfires may be changing Colorado forests, thanks to shifting precipitation and temperatures driven in part by climate change, researchers find.
- Many scholarships go to the most gifted students: the smartest, the most talented and, of course, the fastest and strongest. Boulder’s Robert Wyant Scholarship is granted to students who might be none of the above, but somehow achieve academic success while overcoming the challenges of disability.
- Dan Sawyer (history '88) is taking an ecological and humanities-minded approach to guarding the well-being of professional, student and recreational athletes, alike.
- Professors in theatre, biology and environmental studies team up to focus on creatively communicating climate science through the arts and social sciences.
- Bannerless, due from Mariner Books on July 11, is a mélange of murder mystery, post-apocalyptic world-building and a serious argument in favor of sustainability and responsible social policy.
- When Laurel Rasplica Rodd began studying Japanese language and culture, she was one of only about 7,000 students nationwide. Today, the United States has an estimated 200,000. At Boulder, Rodd helped fuel and meet the student demand.