Rai Farrelly and Ukraine and U.S. flags

Building bridges between Boulder and Ukraine

Sept. 18, 2024

CU scholar Rai Farrelly is partnering with English language teachers in Ukraine this semester through a U.S. Department of State program.

Helanius J. Wilkins and Brandon Welch performing "The conversation Series"

Unlearning fear and embracing an ‘audacity of hope’ through performance

Sept. 13, 2024

In newest chapter of ongoing ‘Conversation Series,’ CU Boulder’s Helanius J. Wilkins explores concepts of belonging and being heard.

vote

Getting out the vote and hashing out the issues

Sept. 9, 2024

Nonpartisan, campuswide initiative aims to help students get registered and vote, as well as learn about the candidates and issues.

Party Picture by artist Laurie Simmons

Finding ‘Better Days’ through art

Aug. 20, 2024

New CU Art Museum exhibit highlights the ways in which art meets challenging times and finds the sometimes-elusive silver lining.

Asian elephants in Thailand's Kui Buri National Park

Studying the elephant-sized issues of living with elephants

Aug. 12, 2024

On World Elephant Day, PhD student and researcher Tyler Nuckols emphasizes that both groups are important in human-elephant coexistence.

Photos of John Krasinski playing Jim Halpert on "The Office"

Jim Halpert is looking at all of us

Aug. 5, 2024

In a recently published paper, CU Boulder PhD student Cooper Casale interrogates Jim Halpert’s direct-to-camera gaze in The Office and its similarities to what he calls the ‘fascist look.'

Olympics fans

Carrying a torch for country and sports

July 25, 2024

As the 2024 Olympics begin in Paris, CU Boulder scholar Jared Bahir Browsh considers how nationalism can inform and influence the games.

A woodcarving depicting the Black Death in Italy

We fear them like the plague

July 18, 2024

After a human case of bubonic plague was confirmed in Pueblo County last week, CU Boulder scholar Thora Brylowe explores why it and all plagues inspire such terror.

Nathan Alexander Moore and The Rupture Files book cover

Dystopian ‘fissures of disaster’ intensify our own world

July 12, 2024

In newly published story collection The Rupture Files, CU Boulder’s Nathan Alexander Moore explores identity and community in dystopian worlds.

Lyndon Johnson signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964

60 years after the Civil Rights Act, ‘the activism continues’

July 2, 2024

CU Boulder scholar Ashleigh Lawrence-Sanders reflects on what has and hasn’t changed since 1964.

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