Grace Fleming van Sweringen Baur in her «Ƶ home. Photo courtesy of Carnegie Branch Library for Local History.

Family sleuth uncovers, renews pioneer’s legacy

Dec. 1, 2010

Grace Fleming van Sweringen Baur chaired the University of Colorado Department of Germanic Languages from 1909 to 1930, when her sudden death ended her tireless service. Hoping to immortalize his wife and her legacy, her grieving husband endowed a scholarship in her name. But other events overshadowed the van Sweringen...

Stack of textbooks

To teach your children well

Dec. 1, 2010

With a mixture of art, science and inspiration, stellar CU teachers in classics, physics and philosophy embody the harmony of research and teaching, and their examples add context to the national discourse on ‘academic efficiency’

Genders on a teeter totter

Narrowing the ‘gender gap’ in physics

Dec. 1, 2010

‘Surprising’ finding: spending 15 minutes, twice a semester, writing about music, family or other things women value helps them perform better in introductory courses

Vernon Minor, a professor emeritus of art and art history at the University of Colorado

The joy of leading ‘art-history Outward Bound’

Oct. 1, 2010

Emeritus professor was ‘interdisciplinary’ before it was cool In academic circles, the term “interdisciplinary” may be jargon, but it is also one measure of scholarly excellence. “Interdisciplinary” studies strive to make sense of the world through the lenses of disparate fields—say, astronomy, philosophy and art history. Vernon Minor was championing...

Sona Dimidjian, an assistant professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of Colorado

Bridging the gap between research and clinical therapy

Oct. 1, 2010

Faculty member strives to increase clinical impact of new research and to address under-served population: women of childbearing age who are depressed Women have twice the odds of suffering depression as men, and the chances rise during childbearing years. While the World Health Organization has found that depression is the...

A group from CU enjoys a moment with the actress Laura Linney in Telluride. From left to right: (back row) Louis Zeller, Hank Smith, Jackson Elley, Nathan Wickstrum, Tony Tovar, Richard Montoya, J.T. Birchall, Kenny Karsten. (middle row) Janet Robinson, Andy Bartosch, Lesley Wharton, Laura Linney, Nikki Sewell, Emilee Prado, Braden Waller, Parker Richards, Robert Collins (first row) Kelly Milan, Becca Oliver, Molly Enright, (very front) Michaela Simon and James Gilbert.

Students see stars, broader horizons in Telluride

Oct. 1, 2010

A group from CU enjoys a moment with the actress Laura Linney in Telluride. From left to right: (back row) Louis Zeller, Hank Smith, Jackson Elley, Nathan Wickstrum, Tony Tovar, Richard Montoya, J.T. Birchall, Kenny Karsten. (middle row) Janet Robinson, Andy Bartosch, Lesley Wharton, Laura Linney, Nikki Sewell, Emilee Prado,...

James Mack celebrating life in Moab.

‘Your life stops and starts again’

Oct. 1, 2010

Mom who’s been there sets up scholarship for survivors of childhood cancer Patty Feist recalls with perfect clarity the call, the date, the time and the message that upended her life. It was April 17, 1997, at 10:45 a.m. She was on the job, working as lab coordinator at the...

Running bison

Alas, poor bison, we slew them well

Oct. 1, 2010

CU scholars eye the next frontier of Renaissance literary criticism The disappearing bison of the 19 th century appear far, far removed from Hamlet, prince of Denmark. But Heather James sees a connection, and it is a variation on a theme of extinction. For James, an American painting of stampeding...

Medical procedure

Only as old as your arteries

Oct. 1, 2010

Douglas R. Seals has amassed scientific evidence indicating that exercise, weight loss, good nutrition, including salt restriction, can cut your chances of getting cardiovascular disease. Now he’s researching pills that might have the same effect.

Windmill

A new take on the climate fix

Oct. 1, 2010

Roger Pielke Jr. boils it down to a question: How long will the world embrace climate policies that have failed? More precisely, when will it embrace policies that are more likely to lower greenhouse-gas emissions and meet the world’s energy demand?

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