Ken Washington

How a Stanford student prompted to challenge discrimination

March 1, 2022

In April 1965, the Stanford University chapter of the Sigma Chi fraternity invited Ken Washington to become a member. This flouted the fraternity’s longstanding whites-only policy, and the fallout reverberated across the nation, generating a controversy and legal challenge in Boulder, Colorado.

Kobe Bryant memorial

What do we owe the dead? Truth, philosopher says

Feb. 28, 2022

Boulder’s Iskra Fileva has won the Public Philosophy Op-Ed Contest for her 2020 essay about the dust-up surrounding Kobe Bryant’s death and life, exploring the social pressure to pretend those who have died were good people.

Dog in a veterinary waiting room

Wanted: Dogs with arthritis to help test a novel pain therapy

Feb. 28, 2022

In a new study, Boulder neuroscientist Linda Watkins and veterinary pain specialist Rob Landry are looking to the second generation of novel gene therapy as a way to help dogs with joint pain.

Stock image of jazz instruments and music stands

‘Jazz and the Civil Rights Movement’ event set for Feb. 21

Feb. 15, 2022

Flutist, educator, composer and director Galen Abdur-Razzaq will perform and discuss how jazz musicians helped advance civil rights.

illustration of quantum mechanics

2 physicists win prestigious NSF CAREER Awards

Feb. 10, 2022

Boulder's Andrew Lucas and Bethany Wilcox have been awarded the Early Career Development Program, one of the NSF’s most prestigious awards, to improve the teaching of quantum mechanics to students and to search for new kinds of fluids.

Scene from the new West Side Story movie

Viva ‘West Side Story,’ Boulder cinephile says

Feb. 7, 2022

Ernesto Acevedo-Muñoz, cinema studies chair—and man who’s “morally opposed” to remakes—gives a thumbs-up to Steven Spielberg’s Oscar Award-nominated version of “West Side Story.”

Superflare

Boulder scientists bring stellar flares into clearer focus

Jan. 28, 2022

In work that has implications for the search for life elsewhere in the galaxy, scientists are analyzing data from 440 stellar flares, finding them to be not just common and powerful but also more complex than previously thought.

Chris Anthony carries a pair of World War II-era skis up the flanks of Mount Mangart

alumnus finds, shares forgotten chapter of Colorado’s soldiers on skis

Jan. 11, 2022

Like many lifelong Coloradans, Chris Anthony knew a little bit about the U.S. Army’s 10th Mountain Division. Unlike others, however, he was uniquely positioned to tell the story of how the division fought in Italy and even captured Mussolini’s compound on Lake Garda during World War II.

Person holds a small Jewish star in front of a setting sun

‘Jews of Color’ initiative gets $250,000 boost

Dec. 23, 2021

The Henry Luce Foundation is funding a three-year partnership between the Program in Jewish Studies and the University Libraries to “‘recover, study and elevate’ voices of Jews of color.”

Atonio Vigil fishing with his mother

From electrons to Tolstoy, grad focuses on ‘biggest questions’

Dec. 15, 2021

Antonio Vigil, who is earning a degree in physics, has been named the College of Arts and Sciences’ outstanding graduate for fall 2021.

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