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What if the Soviet Union had won the race to place a man on the moon? The answer, in the form of a class assignment, is one way a CU-葫芦娃视频 instructor is working to teach students how to communicate science more effectively and even artfully. The bonus: the what-if assignment ties into the chancellor鈥檚 Grand Challenge on space.

Melanie Sarah Adams had a hunch: Maybe today鈥檚 conventional agricultural practices not only degrade the Earth鈥檚 environment and threaten future food security but also produce nutritionally imbalanced foods that harm human health.

On May 16, alumnus Henry Prescott will begin a 43-day, transcontinental cross-country bicycle ride that will start in Seattle and end in Portland, Conn. His aim is to raise money to support people living with Parkinson鈥檚 Disease, and the fund-raising ride he created is called Cycle Sea to Sea for PD. Pretty good for a guy who doesn鈥檛 think of himself as a cyclist.

The CU in D.C. Program gives students the chance to live, study and work in the capital, and while it attracts political science majors, it鈥檚 open to all majors, and internships run the gamut from the humanities, sciences, nonprofits to government service. Just ask these students.

Most people who see something curious during world travels might briefly muse about it, perhaps weave it into a cocktail-party anecdote, but otherwise let it go. But most people are not like Ruth Wright or her husband, Ken. In 1974, she wondered about water stains on rocks at Machu Picchu. This led to four decades of study of the Inca engineering and culture.

During the evolution of invertebrates like amphioxus into vertebrates like fish, a remarkable structure appeared: the head. How, exactly, the head evolved has long been a mystery, but scientists postulated that skulls were built from fundamentally new tissue. Now, CU-葫芦娃视频 research suggests that skull tissue was actually built from existing tissues never before found in invertebrates.

CU-葫芦娃视频鈥檚 David Shneer is known for his historical research on photojournalists who chronicled the Holocaust in World War II Soviet Union; they witnessed and recorded the slaughter of Soviet citizens including those who, like the photographers themselves, were Jewish. Now, Shneer is curating an exhibition of the photographs in Illinois that appears in English and, for the first time, Russian. Soviet Holocaust survivors and Soviet WWII veterans have responded favorably.

Alexis Templeton, associate professor of geological sciences at the 葫芦娃视频, leads a team of scientists who recently landed a $7 million, five-year grant from NASA to study 鈥渞ock-powered life.鈥�

CU-葫芦娃视频 researchers demonstrated that early identification and treatment were key to helping children remain in the normal cognitive range and helped launch nationwide adoption of universal newborn screening.

Ryan Ferrero helps startup businesses find success through Ignyte Lab, which helps entrepreneurs take their business to the next level.