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The University of Colorado Boulder has been selected to lead a $15.3 million effort to better understand how to improve the sustainability of water, sanitation and hygiene interventions in the developing world.

The newly created American Politics Research Lab, housed in the Department of Political Science, aims to involve undergraduate and graduate students in taking Colorado's political pulse every year. 鈥淭his is the first year of what we hope will be an ongoing record of opinion on public affairs within the state,鈥� said political scientist Scott Adler.

With possible implications for a better understanding of cancer and neurodegenerative conditions, a new study for the first time shows the final stages of how mitochondria, found in nearly all living cells, divide and propagate.

Researchers designed a clever treadmill-based study to demonstrate that running times slow as running shoes increase in weight, even if only by a few ounces.鈥� (Audio interview available.)

Assistant Professor of Physics Loren Hough has earned a $1.8 million award from the National Institute of General Medical Science to study tubulin, a shape-shifting cellular protein that is quietly essential to many life processes.

A new CIRES study shows how incremental activity along Turkey's North Anatolia fault may provide insight into future seismic events.

Under a new $2 million grant, CU Boulder's Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence will work with Colorado-based Mental Health Partners to increase the capacity to identify children and families who have experienced trauma and provide evidence-based trauma-focused treatment. The project is expected to support more than 900 clinicians, and serve over 3,100 clients.

Black and Latino Coloradans are disproportionately impacted by the criminal justice system, according to a new Rocky Mountain PBS documentary, A Sentenced Life. Beverly Kingston, director of the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence (CSPV) at CU Boulder, contributed her research on social disorganization theory and appeared in the film.

Just in time for Halloween, teens are invited to get grossed out at an upcoming Teen Science Caf茅 at CU Boulder that explores the science of what happens in the brain to trigger reactions of disgust. 鈥淓www Disgusting! The Evolution and Neuroscience of Getting Grossed Out鈥� will be held Oct. 25 from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at CU Boulder鈥檚 Museum of Natural History lower level Biolounge. Registration is required.

A NASA mission to Mars led by CU Boulder has shown that water escaping from the planet's atmosphere is driven in large part by how close it is to the sun.