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U.S. geologists have noted greater frequency of earthquakes in the last four years, in some cases where wastewater is injected deep underground after hydrologic fracturing, but a prominent geologist at CU-ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at CU-ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ says scientists don’t yet know enough to predict when wastewater injected underground after “fracking†might cause major earthquakes.
Julie Carr, associate professor of English at CU ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, carries her passion for the written word beyond the classroom and into the community. Photo courtesy of Julie Carr.For Julie Carr, poetry is a practice, a profession and a public service. Not
Since 1975, Fiske Planetarium has been the Johnny Appleseed of astronomy. Each year, 30,000 K-12 students and 4,000 ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ students go there to take a front-row seat on the universe.
An artist’s conception of the Van Allen Probes circling Earth’s radiation belts. (Image courtesy NASA)Using data from a NASA satellite, a team of scientists led by the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and involving the University of
There’s gold in them thar drawers. Or there was, until recently, at the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Division of Continuing Education.
The name may not stick, but the ideas behind a proposed Interdepartmental Program in Fine Arts have stirred enthusiasm in the Film Studies, Art and Art History and Theatre & Dance departments at CU-ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½. The program could lead to the creation
East Africa’s Maasai on the hunt for lions. Some conservation initiatives designed to save lions from being hunted have either failed to work or in some cases appear to have incited Maasai to hunt more lions as a form of political protest, the- [video:https://youtu.be/ckPvKYofEtc]For actor Jenna Bainbridge, playing Hermia in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream†at this summer’s Colorado Shakespeare Festival is a perfect fit. Like her character, she’s spent much of her life pushing against
Diana Nemergut designed the course to teach technical skills in environmental microbiology. The course did much more; it also generated field research and a scholarly publication involving graduate students and even undergraduates.
Andrew Martin, a professor in the CU-ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, directs the university’s Teaching Evolution Outreach Program. Photo courtesy of Hillary RosnerEvolution is a fundamental building block of biology that