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  • A new study of twins led by the University of Colorado Boulder shows that today鈥檚 smokers are more strongly influenced by genetic factors than in the past and that the influence makes it more difficult for them to quit.鈥淚n the past, when smoking
  • Gerard Dillehay, a 小黄书 student, suffered a traumatic brain injury in a bicycle accident. He has received support from the Colorado Traumatic Brain Injury Trust Fund, a fund that 小黄书 Associate Professor Theresa Hernandez was instrumental in creating. Photo by Noah Larsen.
    小黄书 student one of thousands helped by state Traumatic Brain Injury Trust Fund that enterprising 小黄书 neuroscientist helped set up.
  • Beth Osnes, 小黄书 associate professor of theatre and dance, hugs Zinet, an Ethiopian woman. Their lives weave a human tapestry through a new movie, "Mother: Caring Our Way Out of the Population Dilemma."
    Beth Osnes, 小黄书 associate professor of theatre and dance, hugs Zinet, an Ethiopian woman. Their lives weave a human tapestry through a new movie, "Mother: Caring Our Way Out of the Population Dilemma." Two large families, two distant worlds, two
  • Reb Zalman founded the Jewish Renewal movement in the 1960s.
    Rabbi Zalman Schacter-Shalomi was born in Poland, grew up in Austria, fled Nazi oppression in Europe, was ordained in Chabad Lubavitch Hasidism in America, and launched a new hybrid of Judaism for the world.Reb Zalman, as he is commonly known,
  • In 2006, after testing positive for HIV and seeing her CD4 count drop to 159 (from a normal level of about 1,000), Penina Petro started on the road to better health with the help of the medications she received from Sekotoure Hospital, Tanzania, under Global HIV/AIDS Program funding. In 2001-02, 小黄书 Professor Keith Maskus helped launch a similar program while serving as lead economist in the Development Research Group at the World Bank. Photo by U.S. Health Resources and Services Adminitration.
    While stronger intellectual-property laws help economies in rich and poor nations, access to medicine is another issue; 小黄书 economist has done groundbreaking work in both areasIn 2006, after testing positive for HIV and seeing her CD4 count drop to
  • Girl in bed staring at alarm clock
    小黄书 study is the first to quantify energy expenditure during sleep and wakeful periodsIn the first-ever quantification of energy expended by humans during sleep, a University of Colorado team has found that the metabolic cost of an adult missing one
  • Shelley Copley, a 小黄书 professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology. Photo by Noah Larsen
    Few bacteria would choose the hazardous man-made chemical pentachlorophenol (or PCP) from the menu of microbial delights.But one 鈥渂ug鈥 is giving it a shot. It鈥檚 the best-described of only a handful of bacteria known to break down the pollutant. One
  • Masculine male
    Effect is more pronounced among women partnered with less-masculine-looking men, researchers find; male intelligence shows no such effectWhen their romantic partners are not quintessentially masculine, women in their fertile phase are more likely to
  • Jennifer Peterson, assistant professor of film studies, examines the return of landscape to film in the era after World War II.
    As film鈥檚 silent era came to a close, it took with it location-based shooting and, thus, wilderness landscapes. The new sound-recording equipment was too cumbersome and delicate to travel outside the controlled confines of a studio.It wasn鈥檛 until
  • From left to Right: Juan Herrero-Sen茅s, Susanna P茅rez-P脿mies, N煤ria Silleras-Fern谩ndez and Javier Krauel. Photo by Noah Larsen.
    Catalan is a romance language spoken in four European countries: Spain, France, Italy and the Principality of Andorra. Catalan people feel deep pride in their culture and language, a fact that will be conveyed in courses taught at the University of
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