CU-Boulder students partner with middle school to teach financial literacy

May 22, 2013

As the school year wraps up, students at Summit Charter Middle School in Boulder will debrief on how their $25,000 stock portfolio performed. The middle school students invested money under supervision as part of a course created and taught by accounting and finance students from the University of Colorado Boulder鈥檚 Leeds School of Business .

CU-Boulder helps tap crowds to digitize museum records of bugs and plants

May 21, 2013

Inside the natural history museums of the world are billions of animal and plant specimens from birds, fish and beetles to flowers, mushrooms and grasses, all stacked, stored and preserved in jars and collection drawers. The rich and diverse collections could be critical to understanding how the Earth鈥檚 biodiversity is changing in the face of a growing human footprint 鈥� if only the information were easily accessible.

Northern hemisphere losing last dry snow region, says CU study

May 20, 2013

Last July, something unprecedented in the 34-year satellite record happened: 98 percent of the Greenland Ice Sheet鈥檚 surface melted, compared to roughly 50 percent during an average summer. Snow that usually stays frozen and dry turned wet with melt water. Research led by the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences now shows last summer鈥檚 extreme melt could soon be the new normal.

Google and CU-Boulder partner to offer innovative computer teacher education workshop July 10-12

May 16, 2013

Google Inc. and the University of Colorado Boulder computer science department are partnering to inspire high school and middle school teachers looking for motivating, engaging and fun ways to prepare students for college and career success during an activities-packed workshop July 10-12.

World's melting glaciers making large contribution to sea rise

May 16, 2013

World鈥檚 melting glaciers making large contribution to sea rise

May 16, 2013

Bardfest 2013 offers both tradition and twists

May 15, 2013

The 56th annual season of the Colorado Shakespeare Festival will feature a classic lineup 鈥� a comedy, a tragedy, a history 鈥� alongside a hilarious Shakespeare sendup and a return engagement of an Off-Broadway hit. But if anything, expect the unexpected, as two veterans and two of CSF鈥檚 favorite comic actors take the helm and offer their own visions, from the exotic to the traditional.

Record number of CU-Boulder students offered Fulbright awards for 2013-14

May 14, 2013

Twelve University of Colorado Boulder students have been offered Fulbright grants to pursue teaching, research and graduate studies abroad during the 2013-14 academic year, an all-time record for CU-Boulder.

Record number of CU-Boulder students offered Fulbright awards for 2013-14

May 14, 2013

Twelve University of Colorado Boulder students have been offered Fulbright grants to pursue teaching, research and graduate studies abroad during the 2013-14 academic year, an all-time record for CU-Boulder.

CU-Boulder ranked No. 14 worldwide for scholarly impact of journal publications

May 13, 2013

The University of Colorado Boulder has been ranked No. 14 in the world on the scholarly impact of its journal publications, according to an analysis by the Centre for Science and Technology Studies at Leiden University in the Netherlands. The Leiden Ranking analyzed the 500 universities with the largest number of publications recorded in Web of Science, a database of articles published in more than 12,000 journals that is maintained by Thomson Reuters.

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