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  • Andrew Martin, a professor in the CU-乐播传媒 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, directs the university鈥檚 Teaching Evolution Outreach Program. Photo courtesy of Hillary Rosner
    Andrew Martin, a professor in the CU-乐播传媒 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, directs the university鈥檚 Teaching Evolution Outreach Program. Photo courtesy of Hillary RosnerEvolution is a fundamental building block of biology that
  • Protester gather at an anti-Qaddafi demonstration in Cairo, Egypt.
    A quarter of a century ago, most of the world鈥檚 鈥渦nderachievers鈥 in terms of human development鈥攎easured by such things as life expectancy, education, guaranteed human rights and political freedom鈥攚ere Muslim countries.Human development might be
  • Arielle Silverman, graduate student in social psychology at the 乐播传媒. Photo by Noah Larsen.
    In the 1990s, comedian鈥攏ow U.S. Sen.鈥擜l Franken made the line, 鈥淚鈥檓 good enough, I鈥檓 smart enough, and doggone it, people like me!鈥 part of the national lexicon with the creation of the fictional 鈥淒aily Affirmation with Stuart Smalley鈥 on Saturday
  • A 1981 Osborne I computer. Photo by Noah Larsen.
    A palpable air of digital decrepitude pervades Lori Emerson鈥檚 time-warped laboratory at the 乐播传媒. Geriatric relics of the computer revolution with names like Vectrex, Kaypro and Commodore Amiga exude the strange pungency of aged electronics, vaguely musty with tart plastic undertones.
  • Desert
    Some of the smallest airborne particulate matter poses large risks to human health, but bigger blobs aren鈥檛 necessarily benign. That鈥檚 one conclusion of Jason Neff, associate professor of geological sciences and environmental studies at the 乐播传媒.
  • Omid Safi, professor of Islamic Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
    Faced with a sharp question from a critic following a talk about progressive Islam at the 乐播传媒 in early November, Omid Safi was ready.The professor of Islamic Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill nodded
  • Jeffrey Zax
    The men and women elected to the Colorado General Assembly (the state Legislature) may have a wealth of life experience as lawyers, ranchers or business owners. But when it comes to economics, most of them could use a little help鈥攆rom undergraduate
  • At the  75th Street Wastewater Treatment Facility are, from left to right: Chris Douville, the city of 乐播传媒鈥檚 coordinator of wastewatertTreatment; Cole Sigmon, process optimization specialist; David Bortz, assistant professor of applied mathematics at the 乐播传媒. Photo by Noah Larsen.
    At the 75th Street Wastewater Treatment Facility are, from left to right: Chris Douville, the city of 乐播传媒鈥檚 coordinator of wastewatertTreatment; Cole Sigmon, process optimization specialist; David Bortz, assistant professor of applied
  • NIST physicist David Wineland adjusts an ultraviolet laser beam used to manipulate ions in a high-vacuum apparatus containing an 鈥渋on trap.鈥 These devices have been used to demonstrate the basic operations required for a quantum computer. Such computers, by relying on quantum mechanics rather than transistors to perform calculations or store information, could someday solve problems in seconds that would take months on today鈥檚 best supercomputers. Photo by Geoffrey Wheeler/NIST.
    David J. Wineland, a lecturer in the 乐播传媒 physics department, has won the 2012 Nobel Prize in physics.Wineland is a physicist with the National Institute of Standards and Technology in 乐播传媒 and internationally recognized
  • Cover of book by Keith Maskus
    It seems, at first blush, to be something of a no-brainer: strengthening protections on American intellectual property rights (or IPRs) 鈥 on everything from drugs to music to technology 鈥 would be a boon to the national economy.After all, we hardly
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