Paralympic sprinter

Paralympic sprinters beware: Track curves can be tricky

March 16, 2016

For some Paralympic sprinters, having the inside track is not always a good thing. A new CU-Boulder study shows lower left-leg amputee athletes sprinting in the inside lane of an indoor track ran about 4 percent slower than athletes with right-leg amputations.

Love trumps budget in sentimental buys, finds CU-Boulder-led study

March 14, 2016

Brides and the bereaved beware: You, like many shoppers, may have a tendency to reject thriftiness when your purchase is a matter of the heart, according to a new study led by the University of Colorado Boulder.

Antarctica sketch

Warming ocean water undercuts Antarctic ice shelves

March 14, 2016

“Upside-down rivers” of warm ocean water threaten the stability of floating ice shelves in Antarctica, according to a new study led by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder’s National Snow and Ice Data Center. The study highlights how parts of Antarctica’s ice sheet may be weakening due to contact with warm ocean water.

Raina Gough

CU-Boulder’s Raina Gough joins NASA’s Mars rover science team

March 11, 2016

NASA has selected CU-Boulder researcher Raina Gough to join the Mars Curiosity rover mission as a participating scientist; she hopes to expand the science team’s search for evidence of liquid water.

Carissa Marsh and Luke DeGregori

Science education, a love story: CU-Boulder couple bond over their passion for teaching

March 11, 2016

Luke DeGregori and Carissa Marsh are almost as passionate about science education as they are about each other. Before the couple marries this July, they’re focused on their final semester at the University of Colorado Boulder and time well spent student teaching.

Feeling lucky? The odds behind picking a perfect NCAA bracket

March 11, 2016

What are the odds of filling out a perfect NCAA Tournament bracket, picking all 63 games correctly? According to University of Colorado Boulder Professor Mark Ablowitz, former chair of the Department of Applied Mathematics, they are breathtaking: Try about one in 9.22 quintillion.

Brain awareness class paper and crayons

Mind matters: Learning about the brain

March 9, 2016

INC Classroom Outreach sends teams of CU-Boulder students into local schools to teach kids about the brain. They provide lessons on sleep, nutrition for the brain, emotions, head injury and general brain structure. The program is an extension of a large-scale effort to increase public awareness of brain research.

An albatross in flight

Hop, skip and a jump: CU-Boulder researchers reveal molecular search patterns

March 6, 2016

Like an albatross scanning for pods of squid in a vast ocean, molecules on solid surfaces move in an intermittent search pattern that provides maximum efficiency, according to new research from the University of Colorado Boulder.

Aerial view of the Mississippi Delta

The Delta Blues: Human activity harming world’s major river systems

Feb. 23, 2016

For the half billion people living on the world’s river deltas and the hundreds of millions of others who rely on them for water, food, shelter, transportation and energy, the news is not good. More than two-thirds of the the world’s 33 major river deltas are sinking and the vast majority have experienced flooding in recent years, primarily a result of human activity.

CU-Boulder’s first endowed telecom chair to be funded by $4 million gift

Feb. 23, 2016

A $4 million bequest from the estate of a couple committed to the standardization of telecommunications will help establish the first endowed chair in the Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program (ITP) at the University of Colorado Boulder. The pioneering program is part of the College of Engineering and Applied Science and integrates law, policy, business and engineering.

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