Former President of Mexico Vicente Fox to speak at ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä's Macky Auditorium

March 28, 2011

Vicente Fox, former president of Mexico, will speak at the University of Colorado Boulder's Macky Auditorium on Wednesday, April 13, at 7:30 p.m. He is coming to campus at the invitation of the Distinguished Speakers Board, a student organization at ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä-Boulder.

¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä-Boulder graduate programs earn national ranking

March 15, 2011

Graduate programs at the University of Colorado Boulder continue to earn national prominence based on the latest annual rankings from U.S. News & World Report. ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä-Boulder schools and programs garnered 25 mentions in the 2012 edition of Best Graduate Schools, including five ranked in the top 10 of their fields.

Neanderthals were nifty at controlling fire, according to ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä-Boulder researcher

March 14, 2011

A new study involving the University of Colorado Boulder shows clear evidence of the continuous control of fire by Neanderthals in Europe dating back roughly 400,000 years, yet another indication that they weren't dimwitted brutes as often portrayed.

Works of Stan Brakhage, film pioneer and longtime ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä professor, preserved in new center

March 2, 2011

Stan Brakhage loved poetry and befriended poets but dubbed himself a failed poet. Many experts disagreed. He was, they said, a consummate poet -- one who spoke in the language of film and measured his meter in frames.

Fourmile Canyon Fire to be remembered in 'Words To Stir The Soul' at ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä-Boulder March 14

March 2, 2011

The University of Colorado Boulder's Center of the American West will host "Words to Stir the Soul and Reckon with Reality: The Six-Month Anniversary of the Fourmile Canyon Fire" on March 14.

New ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä study shows acupressure effective in helping to treat traumatic brain injury

Feb. 28, 2011

A new University of Colorado Boulder study indicates an ancient form of complementary medicine may be effective in helping to treat people with mild traumatic brain injury, a finding that may have implications for some U.S. war veterans returning home.

Stresses of unemployed spouse can hurt job performance of other spouse, study finds

Feb. 21, 2011

Ignoring the stresses of an unemployed spouse's job search does not bode well for the employed spouse's job productivity or home life, says a University of Colorado Boulder professor.

Space weather disrupts communications, threatens other technologies on Earth, says ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä-Boulder prof

Feb. 17, 2011

A powerful solar flare has ushered in the largest space weather storm in at least four years and has already disrupted some ground communications on Earth, said University of Colorado Boulder Professor Daniel Baker, an internationally known space weather expert.

Thawing permafrost likely will accelerate global warming in coming decades, says study

Feb. 16, 2011

Up to two-thirds of Earth's permafrost likely will disappear by 2200 as a result of warming temperatures, unleashing vast quantities of carbon into the atmosphere, says a new study by the University of Colorado Boulder's Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences.

Final flight of space shuttle Discovery to carry two payloads built by ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä-Boulder

Feb. 15, 2011

Following a more than three-month delay due to technical problems, NASA's space shuttle Discovery will make its final flight Feb. 24 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida carrying two University of Colorado Boulder-built biomedical payload devices.

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