Print 2018
- Can good bacteria make the brain more stress-resilient? Christopher Lowry has dedicated his career to finding out.
- After spending considerable effort trying to stay in Boulder for the long term, Courtney Rowe has also found a way to leave a little bit of herself behind when she’s gone—long gone.
- Politics doesn’t necessarily draw a lot of pink-bow types, but Jillian Howison (PolSci’10), an unabashed “girly girl,” was mesmerized by a "West Wing" character.
- Even by the time he was a senior at Chatfield High School in Littleton, Colo., Cory Ketai (PolSci’16) had put together a business resume that many a recent college graduate might envy.
- Two researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder are exploring human settlement and urbanization patterns in the United States between 1810 and 2015 using a groundbreaking new dataset from Zillow.
- A closer look at geographic data finds no correlation between generally happy locales and rates of suicide, according to research by Boulder and U of California Irvine.
- Boulder research contradicts the long-held belief that humans interfere when they see the abuse of strangers.
- The heckling is real, the riots just acknowledged, and they are part of an innovative teaching method called Reacting to the Past, which aims to help students learn by prompting them to assume historical roles.
- A Boulder graduate student and other researchers find strong evidence that female candidates inspire others to run.
- Paul W. Kroll, professor of Chinese at Boulder, has been elected to the prestigious American Philosophical Society, becoming the fifth member ever of the university’s faculty—and the first from the humanities—to gain this recognition.