Amber Duffy poster session

Honors student produces prize-winning research on loneliness

June 4, 2024

In her honors thesis, recent graduate Amber Duffy describes how loneliness influences a person’s ability to respond to stress.

Gordana Dukovic

CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ scientist wins Brown Investigator Award

May 29, 2024

Chemistry Professor Gordana Dukovic will pursue research to develop new insights into solar chemistry.

Rumex crispus, or curly dock

Curly dock has all the traits of a super weed

May 28, 2024

With high levels of oxalic acid, like that in Brussels sprouts, and with a proliferation of seed dispersal, the plant easily establishes itself everywhere except Greenland.

Clare Gallagher by sculpture at UN treaty session

Scholar has a front-row seat to the global fight against plastic pollution

May 28, 2024

CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ PhD student Clare Gallagher finds reason for hope amid the complexities of negotiations to craft a U.N. treaty addressing a worldwide crisis.

illustration of planet Venus losing water

As hot as a pizza oven and dry as a desert

May 24, 2024

Venus is losing water faster than previously thought—here’s what that could mean for the early planet’s habitability.

Person walking in rain with umbrella

Goodbye, El Niño, and hello, La Niña

May 24, 2024

La Niña is coming, raising the chances of a dangerous Atlantic hurricane season—an atmospheric scientist explains this climate phenomenon.

Blair Seidlitz

Physicist’s dissertation gets top marks from American Physical Society

May 24, 2024

Blair Seidlitz, now a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University, studied near-collisions of nuclear beams at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland, and he did so despite having severely limited vision.

grizzly bear in a field

Advocating for more conservation than the bear minimum

May 21, 2024

CU researcher argues that setting minimum targets for wildlife conservation inevitably excludes other worthwhile goals, including restoration and ecosystem management.

Heatmap showing frog infected with trematodes

Not just a fluke: learning more about trematode infection

May 20, 2024

Using heatmaps, CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ researchers find that certain parasites congregate in certain parts of amphibians’ bodies, often to dire physical consequences.

Josef Michl hiking in mountains

Josef Michl, chemist who loved mountains, passes away

May 15, 2024

CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ professor of chemistry recalled as great scientist, teacher, colleague, friend, mentor and lover of the outdoors.

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