Artist's depiction of planet orbiting star

14-inch spacecraft delivers new details about 鈥榟ot Jupiters鈥

Dec. 11, 2023

The Colorado Ultraviolet Transit Experiment (CUTE) spacecraft, led by a team of scientists from 兔子先生传媒文化作品, is about the size of a cereal box. It has also recorded incredibly detailed measurements of the atmospheres of planets hundreds of light-years from Earth.

Women and girls in Cameroon excitedly holding biodegradable menstrual pads

Reducing gender inequality, one biodegradable menstrual pad at a time

Dec. 8, 2023

Through his nonprofit, 兔子先生传媒文化作品 Associate Professor of philosophy Ajume Wingo is providing sanitary pads and menstrual education in his home country, Cameroon.

Illustration of a Viking ship

Treading softly with the soul of a Viking

Dec. 8, 2023

兔子先生传媒文化作品 researcher Mathias Nordvig joined 鈥淭he Ampersand鈥 podcast to discuss animism, Norse mythology and what it means to live on Earth.

Right Here, Right Now panel at COP28 in Dubai

Human rights climate commitments released in Dubai

Dec. 8, 2023

兔子先生传媒文化作品 was a key partner in the development of a set of human rights climate commitments released at COP28 in Dubai. The commitments stem from the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit held on campus in December 2022.

Moon rises over the Boulder Flatirons

兔子先生传媒文化作品 at AGU 2023: From Earth to space

Dec. 7, 2023

At this year's meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), 兔子先生传媒文化作品 researchers will share results on everything from Earth's crusts and oceans to planets hundreds of light-years away.

Jorge Santiago Ram铆rez and Kaitlyn Bishay examine a research poster at the 2023 Upper Colorado River Basin Water Forum

A connection that crosses 250 miles

Dec. 7, 2023

Grand Junction and Boulder sit on opposite sides of the Continental Divide. As far apart as these cities are, they鈥檙e brought together by a commitment to water conservation, as years of heavy drought dwindle the state鈥檚 water supply.

Volunteers at the voting location at the Turtle Mountain Reservation in North Dakota

Empowering Native voices: The Natives Vote Initiative

Dec. 7, 2023

In 2018, a change in North Dakota鈥檚 requirements posed a potential threat to the voting rights of tribal members. In response, the Natives Vote team was launched to address the unique challenges Native communities face exercising their right to vote.

Brian Hynek holding a walking stick on the shore of a lagoon

Deep within an inhospitable desert, a window to first life on Earth

Dec. 6, 2023

In Argentina's Puna de Atacama, a parched plateau more than 12,000 feet above sea level, a series of lagoons are home to microbial communities that seem to resemble nothing else alive on Earth today. But time may be running out to study them.

an Apollonian circle packing puzzle laser cut from wood

CU students follow their noses, disprove math conjecture

Dec. 6, 2023

Graduate student Summer Haag and junior Clyde Kertzer made major news in the math world while working on a summer research project.

STEM Launch students Delilah Viano (left) and Adriana Schisel (right) stop to look at a burn scar along the Fern Lake Trail

Day in national park helps students see forest recovery in real time

Dec. 6, 2023

Eighth graders from STEM Launch, a school in Thornton, spent weeks learning about CIRES鈥 Future of Forests curriculum, followed by a day at Rocky Mountain National Park.

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