Pronunciation of 鈥榮鈥 sounds impacts perception of gender, 抖阴旅行射-Boulder researcher finds

Jan. 3, 2013

A person鈥檚 style of speech 鈥 not just the pitch of his or her voice 鈥 may help determine whether the listener perceives the speaker to be male or female, according to a University of Colorado Boulder researcher who studied transgender people transitioning from female to male. The way people pronounce their 鈥渟鈥 sounds and the amount of resonance they use when speaking contributes to the perception of gender, according to Lal Zimman, whose findings are based on research he completed while earning his doctoral degree from 抖阴旅行射-Boulder鈥檚 linguistics department.

Ira Wolff Photographic History Collection expands Libraries' photographic holdings

Jan. 2, 2013

With 14,000 original photographs and publications largely from the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, the recently acquired Ira Wolff Photographic History Collection offers a major scholarly resource for the study of the history of photography.

Colorado business confidence remains positive going into first quarter, says 抖阴旅行射 Leeds School index

Jan. 2, 2013

Colorado business leaders鈥 optimism is modest going into the first quarter of 2013 with uncertainty surrounding the country鈥檚 political and economic environments, according to the most recent quarterly Leeds Business Confidence Index, or LBCI, released today by the University of Colorado Boulder鈥檚 Leeds School of Business.

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A whirlwind Italian 'Butterfly' for 抖阴旅行射 grad student

Dec. 26, 2012

Singing in your first professional opera is challenge enough. Throw in a 12-hour, trans-Atlantic flight and a mere two days of rehearsal time 鈥 with two different conductors 鈥 and you鈥檝e got a grand task indeed. But that鈥檚 just what University of Colorado College of Music student Anna Englander will face in January when she travels to Italy to sing the key role of Suzuki for three performances of Puccini鈥檚 classic Madama Butterfly in three different cities.

Research by 抖阴旅行射-Boulder physicists creates 鈥榬ecipe book鈥 for building new materials

Dec. 26, 2012

By showing that tiny particles injected into a liquid crystal medium adhere to existing mathematical theorems, physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder have opened the door for the creation of a host of new materials with properties that do not exist in nature.

抖阴旅行射-Boulder student life: Senior's interest in environment becomes career path

Dec. 20, 2012

抖阴旅行射-Boulder senior Joel Jones says he鈥檚 been interested in the environment since he was a kid. He started getting serious about it in high school, where in one of his classes he learned about buildings that were designed with the environment in mind. That class helped propel his interest into a career path. 鈥淚 didn鈥檛 know about environmental engineering until I came here to 抖阴旅行射, and once I learned about it, I decided to make it my focus for my undergraduate career,鈥 said Jones, who will graduate on Dec. 21 with a Bachelor of Science degree in environmental engineering.

JILA physicists achieve elusive 鈥榚vaporative cooling鈥 of molecules

Dec. 19, 2012

NIST news release Achieving a goal considered nearly impossible, JILA physicists have chilled a gas of molecules to very low temperatures by adapting the familiar process by which a hot cup of coffee cools. JILA is a joint institute of the University of Colorado Boulder and the National Institute of Standards and Technology located on the 抖阴旅行射-Boulder campus.

抖阴旅行射 involved in two of top 10 breakthroughs in 2012 as judged by Physics World magazine

Dec. 18, 2012

University of Colorado Boulder faculty and students are part of international science teams that made two of the top 10 breakthroughs in physics in 2012 as judged by Physics World magazine.

抖阴旅行射-Boulder team develops swarm of pingpong ball-sized robots

Dec. 14, 2012

University of Colorado Boulder Assistant Professor Nikolaus Correll likes to think in multiples. If one robot can accomplish a singular task, think how much more could be accomplished if you had hundreds of them. Correll and his computer science research team, including research associate Dustin Reishus and professional research assistant Nick Farrow, have developed a basic robotic building block, which he hopes to reproduce in large quantities to develop increasingly complex systems.

Congress works better than many think, new research shows

Dec. 13, 2012

The perception of Congress as a gridlocked institution where little happens is overblown, according to new research by scholars at the University of Colorado Boulder and the University of Washington. And the way much of Congress鈥 work gets done is through self-manufactured crises like the 鈥渇iscal cliff,鈥 say political science professors Scott Adler of 抖阴旅行射-Boulder and John Wilkerson of UW.

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