Research Report
- How lessons learned under lockdown could lead to a brighter future.
- A compound produced in the gut when we eat red meat plays a key role in boosting heart disease risk with age, suggests research published by integrative physiology Professor Doug Seals.
- When access to free and low-cost birth control is improved, the percentage of young women who leave high school before graduating falls by double digits, according to a CU «Ƶ study that followed 170,000 women for up to seven years.
- Pregnant women exposed to higher levels of air pollution have babies who grow unusually fast, putting on fat that puts them at risk of weight problems later in life, new CU «Ƶ research suggests.
- New center to focus on African and African American studies.
- Jennifer Shannon, associate professor of anthropology and curator at the CU Museum of Natural History, has won a Whiting Public Engagement Program fellowship, a major grant for her work chronicling Indigenous history in comic books.
- A group of 11 high school students in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) spent their summer observing birds interacting with the environment through the guided arts and sciences approach of the Side by Side project.
- The College of Music’s American Music Research Center (AMRC) is breaking ground with its innovative Soundscapes of the People project, a comprehensive research effort in collaboration with local community stakeholders to document, preserve and engage with diverse musical and cultural influences in and around Pueblo, Colorado.
- The next time you go for a hike, take a moment to appreciate the seemingly ordinary life all around you.
- Three CU «Ƶ faculty are leading a five-year, $6.9 million National Science Foundation grant to study the “critical zone”—from Earth’s bedrock to tree canopy top—in the American West.