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Oil And Gas Wells Contribute Fuel For Ozone Pollution, CIRES Researchers

Emissions from oil and natural gas operations north of Denver could add to ozone pollution in that region, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder’s Cooperative...

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NASA-CU Ozone Study May Benefit Air Standards, Climate

A new NASA-led study involving the University of Colorado Boulder finds that when it comes to combating global warming caused by emissions of ozone-forming chemicals, location matters. Ozone is both a...

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CSU, Fort Collins Communities Celebrate the Faces of Freedom on MLK Day Jan. 21

FORT COLLINS – The Colorado State University and Fort Collins communities will celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day with several events on Monday, Jan. 21. The theme of this year’s celebration is...

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CU Law School Appoints Brad Udall Director of Newly Named Getches-Wilkinson...

The University of Colorado Law School announced today that it is hiring Brad Udall as director of the newly renamed Natural Resources Law Center, which will now be called the Getches-Wilkinson Center...

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CIRES-led Study Discovers High Levels Of Air-Cleansing Compound Over Ocean

Researchers have detected the presence of a pollutant-destroying compound iodine monoxide in surprisingly high levels high above the tropical ocean, according to a new study led by the University of...

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Colorado State University Celebrates Black History Month Throughout February

FORT COLLINS – Colorado State University’s Black/African American Cultural Center has a full month of programs scheduled to celebrate Black History this year. From the kick-off event at noon on Feb. 1...

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Guppy Study At Colorado State University Could Tell Scientists About Genetics...

FORT COLLINS – Biology professors at Colorado State University have obtained a three-year, $400,000 National Science Foundation grant to study the effects of genes moving from one population to...

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CU-Boulder Engineering Students To Unveil Grand Orrery On Feb. 11

A scaled, working model of the solar system built by engineering students at the University of Colorado Boulder will be officially unveiled at Andrews Hall on Feb. 11. The unveiling and dedication of...

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Human Bacteria Sequencing Pinvolving CU Raises $340,000 Online

In hopes of better understanding nutrition and health, the University of Colorado Boulder is playing the leading science role in a “crowdfunding” effort that has raised more than $340,000 for a...

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Southwest Regional Warming Likely Cause of Pinyon Pine Cone Decline, Says CU...

Creeping climate change in the Southwest appears to be having a negative effect on pinyon pine reproduction, a finding with implications for wildlife species sharing the same woodland ecosystems, says...

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University of Twente Donates Electron Accelerator to Colorado State University

FORT COLLINS – The University of Twente in the Netherlands has donated a linear accelerator and peripheral materialsto Colorado State University to help enhance ongoing research collaborations with...

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CU-Boulder Effort Helps Former Students Complete Their Degrees

When life’s complications get in the way of graduation, the University of Colorado Boulder offers CU Complete, an academic service designed to assist former CU-Boulder students in completing their...

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CU-Boulder Fundraising Leaders Fund $2 Million Jazz Studies Endowment

Jeannie and Jack Thompson have made an unprecedented commitment to the Jazz Studies program at the University of Colorado Boulder — building $1.6 million in combined gifts to trigger a new $2 million...

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CU-Boulder Graduate Programs Earn Top National Ratings

DENVER - Graduate programs across the University of Colorado system continue to gain attention for excellence in the latest annual rankings from U.S. News & World Report. Research and teaching...

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Colorado State University Sustainability Fellow Named Emerging Policy Leader

FORT COLLINS – The American Institute of Biological Sciences in Washington, D.C., has selected Colorado State University Ph.D. candidate Paul Tanger as one of two people nationally to receive the 2013...

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CU Study Provides New Evidence Ancient Asteroid Caused Global Firestorm On Earth

A new look at conditions after a Manhattan-sized asteroid slammed into a region of Mexico in the dinosaur days indicates the event could have triggered a global firestorm that would have burned every...

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Thin, low Arctic Clouds Played Important Role in the Massive 2012 Greenland...

Clouds over the central Greenland Ice Sheet last July were “just right” for driving surface temperatures there above the melting point, according to a new study by scientists at the National Oceanic...

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Small Satellites Becoming Big Deal for CU-Boulder Students

For some University of Colorado Boulder undergraduates, designing, building and flying small satellites is becoming a large part of their hands-on education. NASA recently selected CU-Boulder as one...

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CU-Boulder Chancellor Philip DiStefano names 11 Strategic Advisory Council...

University of Colorado Boulder Chancellor Philip P. DiStefano today named 11 members to his Strategic Advisory Council. DiStefano unveiled the council concept last fall at his State of the Campus...

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Forced Exercise May Still Pagainst Anxiety And Stress, Says CU-Boulder Study

Being forced to exercise may still help reduce anxiety and depression just as exercising voluntarily does, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder. Past studies...

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Useful Online Resources for Students looking for Education Worldwide

Quality Education is every ones desire and a lot of students are not able to identify the options available to them. There are various resources but not every student is able to reach to those...

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Being Social Creates Awareness Online Through www.beingsocial.info for...

Being Social is a Social Media Activists consortium which aims at promoting responsible use of Social Media in our day to day life. Its an initiative for fulfilling the desire of Discovery Education...

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CSU’s Colorado Natural Heritage Program Releases New Field Guide to...

FORT COLLINS – The Colorado Natural Heritage Program, a research unit in Colorado State University’s Warner College of Natural Resources, has just released the “Field Guide to Colorado’s Wetland...

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CU Study Suggests Link Between Tumor Suppressors and Starvation Survival

A particular tumor suppressor gene that fights cancer cells does more than clamp down on unabated cell division — the hallmark of the disease — it also can help make cells more fit by allowing them to...

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Financial Aid & Scholarship Resources

Here you’ll realize and guide to the numerous scholarship choices offered to national and international students. Scholarships are offered to in-state, out-of-state and international students for PhD,...

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World’s Melting Glaciers Making Large Contribution to Sea Rise

While 99 percent of Earth’s land ice is locked up in the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, the remaining ice in the world’s glaciers contributed just as much to sea rise as the two ice sheets...

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CU-Boulder organizing effort to establish unmanned aircraft test site in...

A state application organized by the University of Colorado Boulder has been submitted to the Federal Aviation Administration for the development of one of six unmanned aircraft systems test sites...

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5 CU-Boulder Students Patent Medical Device Through Partnership with CU...

Five University of Colorado Boulder students have partnered with a researcher at the University of Colorado Cancer Center to file a patent for a medical device that lets researchers quickly, easily...

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CU-Boulder Prof to lead NASA Campaign to Study North American Air Quality

A University of Colorado Boulder professor is leading a major NASA airborne science campaign this summer that will probe weather patterns and air pollution over a vast expanse of North America that...

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Colorado State University Expert in Small-Animal Liver Disease Earns Top...

FORT COLLINS – Just two months after receiving an international award for scientific achievement, a Colorado State University small-animal veterinarian who has pioneered minimally invasive techniques...

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DiStefano Names Search Committee For New CU-Boulder Athletic Department Director

  University of Colorado Boulder Chancellor Philip P. DiStefano today announced the formation of a search committee to find a new director of intercollegiate athletics. CU Athletic Director Mike Bohn...

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MBA Student On His Way to Tour de France

As he has nearly every summer since the late 1990s, Jonathan Vaughters is traveling to Europe this week for the Tour de France. This year, however, the former pro cyclist and current team manager will...

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Colorado State University Wins National Awards From Council for Advancement...

FORT COLLINS – Colorado State University’s Football 101, a unique program designed to introduce international students to American college football and its many traditions, has been awarded a Gold...

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CU Study Shows How Early Earth Kept Warm Enough to Support Life

Solving the “faint young sun paradox” — explaining how early Earth was warm and habitable for life beginning more than 3 billion years ago even though the sun was 20 percent dimmer than today — may...

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CU Study illuminates Mortality Differences Between Nondrinkers and Light...

As a class, people who don’t drink at all have a higher mortality risk than light drinkers. But nondrinkers are a diverse bunch, and the reasons people have for abstaining affects their individual...

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Ice-free Arctic Winters Could Explain Amplified Warming During Pliocene

Year-round ice-free conditions across the surface of the Arctic Ocean could explain why the Earth was substantially warmer during the Pliocene Epoch than it is today, despite similar concentrations of...

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CU-led MAVEN Mission Spacecraft Arrives at Florida Launch Site

The spacecraft for NASA’s Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN, or MAVEN, mission to Mars being led by the University of Colorado Boulder has arrived in Florida in anticipation of a November launch. The...

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JILA Researchers Discover Atomic Clock can Simulate Quantum Magnetism

Researchers at JILA have for the first time used an atomic clock as a quantum simulator, mimicking the behavior of a different, more complex quantum system. Atomic clocks now join a growing list of...

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CU Professor to Use New Mobile Technology to Test for Agricultural Pathogens...

A University of Colorado Boulder faculty member will travel to Africa later this month to test a mobile smartphone technology developed by his team to rapidly detect and track natural carcinogens,...

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Search Committee for CU-Boulder College of Music Dean Announced

  University of Colorado Boulder Provost Russell L. Moore today announced the formation of a search committee to lead a national search for a new dean of the College of Music. John Stevenson, dean of...

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Rare Western Bumblebees Netted on Colorado’s Front Range During CU-Boulder...

A white-rumped bumblebee that has been in steep decline across its native range in the western United States and Canada appears to be making a comeback on the Colorado Front Range. A survey of...

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University of Colorado Boulder Dlosed Thursday Due to Severe Flooding

The University of Colorado Boulder campus will be closed Thursday, Sept. 12, 2013 due to effects of severe flooding and the ongoing weather emergency. CU police officers have been checking building...

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Solid-State Battery Developed at CU-Boulder Could Double the Range of...

A cutting-edge battery technology developed at the University of Colorado Boulder that could allow tomorrow’s electric vehicles to travel twice as far on a charge is now closer to becoming a...

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CO-LABS Awards for High-Impact Research Honor CIRES, LASP

Office of Economic Development & International Trade Executive Director Ken Lund will present the annual awards for “High-Impact Research” on Oct. 10 to teams from four Colorado-based research...

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CU-Boulder Vice Chancellor Frances Draper names Mark J. Miller campus...

  University of Colorado Boulder Vice Chancellor for Strategic Relations Frances Draper today named Mark J. Miller as spokesperson and issues coordinator for the CU-Boulder campus, effective Nov. 4,...

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CU-Boulder Engineering Days to feature egg drop and rocket launch on Oct. 18

Engineering students at the University of Colorado Boulder will host the annual College Egg Drop competition Oct. 18 as part of Engineering Days. The egg drop, which starts at 11 a.m. on the west side...

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Back to Boulder Homecoming Weekend to offer activities and events Oct. 24-27

A huge range of activities will be offered during the University of Colorado’s 2013 Back to Boulder Homecoming Weekend Oct. 24-27 for alumni, students, faculty, staff and community members. A full...

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CU-Boulder-led study shows unprecedented warmth in Arctic

Average summer temperatures in the Eastern Canadian Arctic during the last 100 years are higher now than during any century in the past 44,000 years and perhaps as long ago as 120,000 years, says a...

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CU-Boulder Sources on 50th Anniversary of JFK Assassination

Rick Stevens, assistant professor of journalism, can comment on media coverage of the JFK assassination as the first time in history Americans reacted to the same visual event. He says the coverage of...

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Aviation Week Names 7 CU-Boulder Students Among 20 National Engineering Leaders

Seven University of Colorado Boulder aerospace engineering students are among 20 top students who will be recognized Nov. 14 with a new national award honoring tomorrow’s engineering leaders sponsored...

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