Assistant Professor Gordana Dukovic

Presto! Harnessing the sun to make fertilizer

April 21, 2016

Here’s a new recipe that might be good for the planet: Add sunlight to a particular nitrogen molecule and out comes ammonia, the main ingredient of fertilizer used around the world. The eco-friendly method of producing ammonia is described in a new study led by the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden and involving CU-«Ƶ.

Senior museum educator Jim Hakala, left, and anthropology curator Steve Lekson prepare a fossil kit to be delivered to a Colorado classroom.

Fossil kits bring CU-«Ƶ museum to classrooms across Colorado

April 21, 2016

Jim Hakala is hitting the road Friday with bins of captivating remnants of the ancient past. Among other things, he’s got fossilized fern, leaves, shark teeth, dinosaur bone, fish, petrified wood and a trilobite. This time, he’s targeting fourth grade classrooms in mostly northeastern Colorado with 12 of his “fossil kits,” courtesy of the CU Museum of Natural History, along with a standards-based curriculum for use by teachers.

Modest employment growth expected in Colorado through second, third quarters

April 21, 2016

Colorado employment is projected to expand over the next two quarters of 2016, though at a more modest pace, according to a CU-«Ƶ report released todayn Business formation rebounded in the first quarter of the year, reversing two consecutive quarters of decline, and the state saw 29,680 businesses come online.

Trenton capitol building

Public financing of campaigns does not reduce political polarization, says CU-«Ƶ study

April 18, 2016

Private donations to political candidates neither alter the candidates’ voting patterns once they’re in office nor make them more ideologically intractable, found a study co-authored by a «Ƶ political science professor. Yet that underlying belief has led to a range of political reforms including the controversial approach of using taxpayer dollars to pay for political campaigns. These were the central findings of the study, recently published in "Legislative Studies Quarterly."

Team wins Al Nakkula Award for Police Reporting

April 15, 2016

Two reporters have won the 2016 Al Nakkula Award for Police Reporting. Their winning piece details how dogged police work by investigators in Colorado captured a serial rapist and led to the exoneration of a Washington woman who was wrongfully prosecuted for false reporting of a rape that actually happened.

The Cassini spacecraft next to Saturn

Saturn spacecraft samples interstellar dust

April 15, 2016

A new study led by the European Space Agency and NASA involving the «Ƶ indicates NASA's Cassini spacecraft has detected the faint but distinct signature of dust coming from beyond our solar system.

Plowing a large amount of hail in the street after a large hailstorm

Amateur meteorologists sought for crowdsourced CU-«Ƶ, National Weather Service hail study

April 14, 2016

CU-«Ƶ and the National Weather Service (NWS) want your help investigating large surface hail accumulations from thunderstorms in Colorado between April and September.

James (Jim) Anaya

CU-«Ƶ names James Anaya new dean of law

April 13, 2016

CU-«Ƶ Provost Russell L. Moore today announced the appointment of James (Jim) Anaya, a Regents’ Professor and James J. Lenoir Professor of Human Rights Law and Policy at the University of Arizona, as dean of the law school. Anaya will begin his duties on Aug. 8, 2016. Anaya’s teaching and writing focus on international human rights and issues concerning indigenous peoples.

Three-dimensional culture of human breast cancer cells

CU-«Ƶ researchers to study elevated anxiety in Colorado cancer survivors, test potential treatments

April 12, 2016

CU-«Ƶ researchers are embarking on a multi-year research project to study and address the psychological concerns of cancer survivors, including elevated anxiety.

Aerial photo of the town of Jabor on Jaluit Atoll

Islands facing a dry future

April 11, 2016

A new study has found that the number of islands that will become substantially more arid by mid century is 73 percent, up from an estimate of 50 percent.

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