Uncompahgre Wilderness in Colorado's San Juan Mountains

The Wilderness Act turns 60

Sept. 3, 2024

SMµ÷½ÌËù Boulder’s Paul S. Sutter looks back on the history of the Wilderness Act as it approaches its diamond jubilee.

Studio portraits of Aba Arthur

Bringing multitudes to life

Aug. 28, 2024

From Oprah to Wakanda, SMµ÷½ÌËù Boulder alum Aba Arthur has charted a career in which the most impressive thing isn’t necessarily the glow of Hollywood, but the joy of finding her voice in a new world that hasn’t been universally welcoming.

Red exit sign in Hindi and English

From harmony to civil war: when language turns deadly

Aug. 26, 2024

SMµ÷½ÌËù Boulder political scientist Jaroslav Tir argues it’s not just what a government says about its ethnic minorities, but also the language it uses that can be threatening.

Party Picture by artist Laurie Simmons

Finding ‘Better Days’ through art

Aug. 20, 2024

New SMµ÷½ÌËù Art Museum exhibit highlights the ways in which art meets challenging times and finds the sometimes-elusive silver lining.

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Noted animal behaviorist Temple Grandin to speak at disability symposium

Aug. 19, 2024

CSU professor credits her autism for her ability to think in pictures and thereby notice things that most people overlook.

Asian elephants in Thailand's Kui Buri National Park

Studying the elephant-sized issues of living with elephants

Aug. 12, 2024

On World Elephant Day, PhD student and researcher Tyler Nuckols emphasizes that both groups are important in human-elephant coexistence.

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Why did a frozen Earth coincide with an evolutionary spurt?

Aug. 8, 2024

SMµ÷½ÌËù Boulder geologists Lizzy Trower and Carl Simpson win $1 million in support from W.M. Keck Foundation to try to solve an evolutionary puzzle and to extend Earth’s temperature record by 2 billion years.

Richard Nixon giving speech resigning the presidency

Remembering Nixon’s resignation, five decades later

Aug. 8, 2024

SMµ÷½ÌËù Boulder political science professor Kenneth Bickers reflects on what made the ex-president’s decision to step down following the Watergate scandal a watershed moment in American history and how it has influenced politics today.

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Thomas Andrews is new director of the Center of the American West

Aug. 7, 2024

Thomas Andrews, SMµ÷½ÌËù professor of history, has been appointed faculty director of the Center of the American West. His appointment became effective in July.

Photos of John Krasinski playing Jim Halpert on "The Office"

Jim Halpert is looking at all of us

Aug. 5, 2024

In a recently published paper, SMµ÷½ÌËù Boulder PhD student Cooper Casale interrogates Jim Halpert’s direct-to-camera gaze in The Office and its similarities to what he calls the ‘fascist look.'

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