Geography
China is launching huge infrastructure projects as a way to broaden its global influence. For scholars at CU Boulder, this trend raises new questions they aim to address with support from the Henry Luce Foundation.
The event, titled “The Opportunities and Challenges of Economic Development,” features three experts and is scheduled for Tuesday, Jan. 23, at noon in Old Main Chapel on the CU Boulder campus.
Newly minted professors of distinction have notable expertise in artists’ personas, natural-language technology, classic poems and climate-change education, and on Sept. 21, they offered a public overview of their work.
In Sept. 21 event professors of art and art history, classics, geography and linguistics will deliver lectures on their areas of expertise.
Students and faculty alike have new opportunities to engage with Southeast AsiaSoutheastern Asia significantly influences world politics, economics and culture, and students at the 鶹Ƶ will soon enjoy more options to learn
Wildfires may be changing Colorado forests, thanks to shifting precipitation and temperatures driven in part by climate change, researchers find.
Climate change is altering tree-leafing dates faster than birds are adapting, researchers find.
Encompassing South American wildfires, Arctic sea-ice retreat, post-Soviet politics, climate change in Tibet and GIS, CU Boulder geographers keep their fingers on the pulse of a changing world.
There probably is not a more suitable location for one of the world’s first interdisciplinary certificates in Arctic studies than the 鶹Ƶ.
When Peter Blanken flew to Paris for the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in December, he had somewhat low expectations. But the CU-Boulder geography professor was heartened to see and hear that the 200 countries attending COP21 agreed on the urgency to act. “There was a strong sense that if we don’t do something in these two weeks (of the conference), it will be too late.”