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Released: 17-Oct-2017 4:00 PM EDT
University of Colorado Boulder to Reduce Cost to Attain a College Degree
University of Colorado Boulder

The University of Colorado Boulder has announced a major step in reducing the cost of attendance, eliminating $8.4 million per year in course-related fees. Chancellor Philip P. DiStefano made the announcement at his State of the Campus address Tuesday.

Released: 17-Oct-2017 2:05 PM EDT
Does Faculty Productivity Really Decline with Age?
University of Colorado Boulder

Conventional wisdom holds that a faculty member's research career peaks at about five years, followed by a steady decline in productivity. But new research shows this stereotype is "remarkably inaccurate."

Released: 5-Oct-2017 12:00 PM EDT
NIST Adds Nearly $2 Billion in Combined Economic Contributions to Maryland and Colorado, New Leeds School of Business Report Finds
University of Colorado Boulder

A new report from the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado Boulder has found that the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) added nearly $2 billion in combined economic contributions across the two states in the 2016 fiscal year.

4-Oct-2017 10:00 AM EDT
Light-Activated Nanoparticles Can Supercharge Current Antibiotics
University of Colorado Boulder

Light-activated nanoparticles, also known as quantum dots, can provide a crucial boost in effectiveness for antibiotic treatments used to combat drug-resistant superbugs such as E. coli and Salmonella, new University of Colorado Boulder research shows.

Released: 26-Sep-2017 10:35 AM EDT
High School Football Participation Has ‘Peaked’, Further Declines Likely, Says CU Boulder Professor
University of Colorado Boulder

After a steady climb, boys participation in U.S. high school football peaked in 2009 and began a slow decline, a new analysis shows, The author says concerns about concussions are driving it, but swirling political controversies could make it worse.

Released: 22-Sep-2017 8:00 AM EDT
Can Gardening Prevent Cancer?
University of Colorado Boulder

Public health researchers, armed with a $1 million American Cancer Society grant, have launched one of the first randomized controlled trials ever to study the physical and psychological benefits of community gardening.

   
20-Sep-2017 4:05 PM EDT
Big Herbivorous Dinosaurs Ate Crustaceans as Side Dish
University of Colorado Boulder

Some big plant-eating dinosaurs roaming present-day Utah some 75 million years ago were slurping up crustaceans on the side, a behavior that may have been tied to reproductive activities, says a new University of Colorado Boulder study.  

Released: 13-Sep-2017 12:05 PM EDT
CU Boulder Scientists Ready for Cassini Mission to Saturn Grand Finale
University of Colorado Boulder

CU Boulder scientists reminisce about the end of the Cassini mission, which has been a part of their research lives for the last 40 years.

Released: 13-Sep-2017 10:45 AM EDT
CU Boulder to Create Digital Archive of 1.7 Million Botanical Specimens From Southern Rocky Mountains
University of Colorado Boulder

University of Colorado Boulder researchers and collaborating institutions have been awarded $2.9 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to create a comprehensive digital archive of over 1.7 million plant specimens native to the southern Rocky Mountain region.

Released: 13-Sep-2017 7:00 AM EDT
Scientists Want to Study Your Tweets; Is It Ethical?
University of Colorado Boulder

Researchers at University of Colorado Boulder and five other institutions are collaborating to explore legal, ethical, and privacy concerns surrounding a field of study so new it lacks ethical standards.

Released: 12-Sep-2017 12:05 PM EDT
CU Boulder Study Shows Bacteria “Shapeshift” in Space
University of Colorado Boulder

Bacteria cells treated with a common antibiotic on the International Space Station responded by shapeshifting, likely to improve their survival chances.

9-Mar-2005 4:50 PM EST
New Technique to Free Seismologists from ‘Tyranny of Earthquakes’
University of Colorado Boulder

Seismologists have long relied on earthquakes or expensive tools like explosives to help create images of Earth's interior, but a new method created by University of Colorado at Boulder researchers will produce quicker, cheaper and clearer images.

Released: 7-Dec-2004 2:00 PM EST
U.S. Innovation Hurt by Restrictions on Foreign Grad Students
University of Colorado Boulder

Tight restrictions on student visas for foreign graduate students will hasten the erosion of America's global dominance in innovation, according to a University of Colorado at Boulder researcher.

Released: 5-Oct-2004 9:20 AM EDT
Security Flaws in Popular Web Site Found by University of Colorado Team
University of Colorado Boulder

A University of Colorado at Boulder team tested the security of the popular Web-based Internet Chess Club and showed that the site wasn't secure. In fact, they proved users could cheat rather easily.

Released: 13-Jul-2004 4:40 PM EDT
Corporate Giving Can Encourage Customers to Give Too
University of Colorado Boulder

The old business adage that a company does well by doing good needs adjusting, according to new research.

Released: 22-Jun-2004 5:10 PM EDT
Instruments Approach Saturn Aboard International Cassini Spacecraft
University of Colorado Boulder

NASA's Cassini-Huygens spacecraft carrying a $12.5 million instrument package is expected to enter Saturn's orbit June 30, beginning a four-year mission to probe the planet, its fabulous ring system and bizarre moons.

Released: 22-Jun-2004 6:40 AM EDT
Satellite Instrument to Provide New Details on Ozone
University of Colorado Boulder

Just after 3 a.m. on July 10, University of Colorado at Boulder researcher John Gille expects to watch a new NASA satellite blast into orbit from the dark California coastline on a mission to study Earth's protective ozone layer, climate and air quality changes with unprecedented detail.

Released: 18-Jun-2004 2:30 PM EDT
AIM Mission To Study Noctilucent Clouds
University of Colorado Boulder

The University's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics has been selected by NASA to build two of the three instruments for a satellite that will launch in 2006 to study noctilucent clouds, the shiny, silvery-blue polar mesospheric clouds that form about 50 miles over Earth's polar regions each summer.


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