Dream Lake in Rocky Mountain National Park

Balancing fraught history and modern collaboration in America’s ‘best idea’

June 24, 2024

In new book, ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· scholar Brooke Neely explores pathways to uphold Native sovereignty in U.S. national parks.

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When economies falter, governors respond similarly, regardless of party

June 20, 2024

Political scientists find that partisan divide shrinks among governors who are responding to economic downturns.

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For some women, STEM may not be the great equalizer

June 17, 2024

In newly published book, CU economics alumna Susan Averett analyzes whether STEM fields offer an equal path to prosperity for all women.

Images of horse artifacts and paintings

Horsepower: Professor unveils a new history of horses

June 11, 2024

In his upcoming book, ‘Hoof Beats: How Horses Shaped Human History,’ William Taylor writes that today’s world has been molded by humans’ relationship to horses.

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Making the case for President Average Joe

June 10, 2024

ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· doctoral student examines how an unconventional social media campaign worked in 2020 to make Joe Biden more appealing—or at least less unappealing—to progressive voters.

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Ghost stories: understanding a present haunted by the past

June 7, 2024

A ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· poet considers the socioeconomic and political environment of the turn of the 20th century through the history of her own family.

Bruce, Sandy, Rick on log Camp Hale 1963-64

Six decades later, scholar locates site of secret CIA-Tibet training camp

June 3, 2024

Carole McGranahan, a ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· anthropology professor who has long studied the Tibetan perspective of China’s invasion and occupation of Tibet, joins the Tibetan community to commemorate the location on June 9 at Camp Hale, Colorado.

Claudia Scheinbaum and Xóchitl Gálvez

In historic first, Mexico is poised to elect female president

May 31, 2024

However, ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· scholar Lorraine Bayard de Volo notes that electing a female president may not guarantee a more feminist mode of governing.

Gail Nelson in Kabul, Afghanistan

Afghanistan did not have to be Vietnam 2.0, says former intelligence advisor

May 30, 2024

Gail Nelson, a career intelligence officer and ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· alumnus, advised Afghan military intelligence leaders after the United States drove the Taliban from power.

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Learning lessons from historic sports-betting scandals

May 28, 2024

Sports gambling creates a windfall, but raises questions of integrity, says ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· researcher Jared Bahir Browsh.

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