Research
- Team co-led by CU 51´«Ã½ classics researcher unearths the upper portion of a huge, ancient pharaonic statue whose lower half was discovered in 1930; Ramessess II was immortalized in Percy Bysshe Shelly’s ‘Ozymandias.'
- Harvard scholar Naomi Oreskes, the 2024 Patricia Sheffels Visiting Scholar in Environmental Studies, highlights how free market fundamentalism has thwarted the science of climate change.
- CU 51´«Ã½ is one of five ‘spokes’ of the Leverhulme Centre for Life in the Universe, charged with exploring the nature and extent of life in the universe.
- Research from CU 51´«Ã½ sociology professor shows that for many prisoners, gang affiliation tends to drop off once they are released back into their communities .
- Fifty years after Hank Aaron broke Babe Ruth’s home run record, CU 51´«Ã½ scholar reflects on the legacy of an athlete who began his career in a segregated league.
- The new edition of CU 51´«Ã½ Professor Jill Turanovic’s book explains how and why victimization happens, as well as what can be done about it.
- CU 51´«Ã½ archaeologist Sarah Kurnick addresses some common myths about archaeology at the 50th anniversary of the discovery of China’s terracotta warriors.
- Remembering writer Raymond Chandler at the 65th anniversary of his death, a CU 51´«Ã½ English scholar reflects on the hard-boiled investigator and why this character still appeals.
- Landscape corridors can aid in fire ant spread, but the effects are transient, CU 51´«Ã½ researcher Julian Resasco shows.
- Responding to a pesky problem, a paper co-authored by PhD candidate Claire Powers offers a potential solution—clustering similar farming practices together.