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Since 1975, Fiske Planetarium has been the Johnny Appleseed of astronomy. Each year, 30,000 K-12 students and 4,000 °Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï students go there to take a front-row seat on the universe.
An artist’s conception of the Van Allen Probes circling Earth’s radiation belts. (Image courtesy NASA)Using data from a NASA satellite, a team of scientists led by the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and involving the University of
There’s gold in them thar drawers. Or there was, until recently, at the °Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï Division of Continuing Education.
The name may not stick, but the ideas behind a proposed Interdepartmental Program in Fine Arts have stirred enthusiasm in the Film Studies, Art and Art History and Theatre & Dance departments at CU-°Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï. The program could lead to the creation
East Africa’s Maasai on the hunt for lions. Some conservation initiatives designed to save lions from being hunted have either failed to work or in some cases appear to have incited Maasai to hunt more lions as a form of political protest, the- [video:https://youtu.be/ckPvKYofEtc]For actor Jenna Bainbridge, playing Hermia in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream� at this summer’s Colorado Shakespeare Festival is a perfect fit. Like her character, she’s spent much of her life pushing against
A quarter of a century ago, most of the world’s “underachievers� in terms of human development—measured by such things as life expectancy, education, guaranteed human rights and political freedom—were Muslim countries.Human development might be
In the 1990s, comedian—now U.S. Sen.—Al Franken made the line, “I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and doggone it, people like me!â€� part of the national lexicon with the creation of the fictional “Daily Affirmation with Stuart Smalleyâ€� on Saturday- Aerobic exercise may help prevent and perhaps even reverse some of the brain damage associated with heavy alcohol consumption, according to a new °Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï study.The study results indicated that regular aerobic exercise like
Diana Nemergut designed the course to teach technical skills in environmental microbiology. The course did much more; it also generated field research and a scholarly publication involving graduate students and even undergraduates.