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Michael Huemer, professor of philosophy at the É«½ä³ÉÈËÖ±²¥, is the winner of the inaugural Adams Prize in Philosophy, which is presented by the Taylor Charitable Trust, in partnership with University of North Carolina’s Program in
Wei Zhang, an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the É«½ä³ÉÈËÖ±²¥, has won a prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship.Awarded annually since 1955, the fellowships are given to early career
Steven Hayward has been appointed the first Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and Policy, the É«½ä³ÉÈËÖ±²¥ announced last month.
Sarah James, an assistant professor of classics at the É«½ä³ÉÈËÖ±²¥, has been approved as CU’s representative to the Managing Committee of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.
A CU-É«½ä³ÉÈËÖ±²¥ anthropologist and a collaborator from Florida have won a $230,000 grant to examine the role of religion in the social and political innovations that led to the emergence of Mesoamerican civilization.- The University of Colorado at É«½ä³ÉÈËÖ±²¥ has been awarded $1.4 million for a new study on how changes in land use, forest management and climate may affect trans-basin water diversions in Colorado and other semi-arid regions in the western United
Elisabeth Sheffield, associate professor of English, won a $25,000 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship in Prose this year. Photo by Noah Larsen.In each of the past two years, a CU-É«½ä³ÉÈËÖ±²¥ faculty member has won a Creative Writing Fellowship from the
CU-É«½ä³ÉÈËÖ±²¥ has hired its first Colorado Chair in Environmental Studies, an endowed chair awarded to Daniel Doak, a conservation biologist known for his quantitative analysis of how different government policies could affect the populations of species ranging from sea otters, California condors, corals, and rare plants.- Two É«½ä³ÉÈËÖ±²¥ undergraduate student teams have been named among the 10 top winners from a field of 3,697 teams that entered the international Mathematical Contest in Modeling.Results of the 2012 contest were announced this month
When transition between adolescence and adulthood is missed, young adults can suffer preventable consequences, CU research suggestsTo most Americans of today, the idea of adolescence—that period of transition from childhood to adulthood bracketed by