Prairie with mountain range in background

Landmark study on history of horses in American West relies on Indigenous knowledge

New research has revealed that horses may have spread throughout the American West much sooner and faster than many scholars believed

The Salton Sea in Southern California.

Satellites reveal widespread decline in global lake water storage

Over half of the world’s freshwater lakes are in decline, storing less water than three decades ago, according to a study led by CIRES researchers that was featured on the cover of Science

The Mountain Research Station multi-disciplinary undergraduate and graduate field course.

Educating through an 'exceptional experience'

Twenty-five miles west of Boulder, the Mountain Research Station has long been a hub for world-class research and education

Frozen realm of the cryosphere

Leading understanding of the cryosphere

National Snow and Ice Data Center monitors sea ice, tracks snow, examines Arctic conditions and informs global decision-makers

Mike McGehee and Tomas Leitjens working on solar cells

Advancing next-gen solar technology

National CU Boulder-led consortium aims to enable the commercialization of perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells

Dental aligner prototype

Charting a course from research to impact

Researchers building a budding life sciences startup leverage venture development programming to achieve a major funding milestone

Students help a prototype robotic chemistry assistant learn to collaborate with humans.

Audacious collaboration to pair humans with robots

A team led by Carson Bruns, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the ATLAS Institute, received a $1.8 million grant from the National Science Foundation for “Human-Robot Collaboration for the Future of Organic Synthesis.â€

LGBTQ+ activism Libraries collection

Students preserve LGBTQ+ activism in new Libraries collection

Primary sources documenting the history of CU Boulder student activism for LGBTQ+ rights are now a searchable collection and mini exhibition at the University Libraries thanks to students who cataloged the artifacts and curated the exhibition.

Face graphic

Pioneering center reimagines the role of AI in education

Meet CoBi, a new kind of artificial intelligence platform that seeks to bring young people together and help them learn.

Railroad tracks bifurcating town of Alamosa, CO

Uncovering a landmark segregation case

Educational historian helps unearth Colorado case as one of the earliest Mexican-American challenges to U.S. school segregation

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