Health
- Oana Luca has won a green chemistry "ignition" grant for her innovative chemistry approach. Her research involves a more sustainable way of creating pharmaceuticals.
- Children who are deaf or partially deaf but receive diagnosis and interventions by 6 months develop a far greater vocabulary than those for whom treatment is delayed.
- Professor John Crimaldi, who specializes in fluid mechanics engineering, is helping to develop key technological tools to drive olfactory generators that project virtual reality scents.
- Sociology doctoral candidate Adenife Modile studies fertility and maternal health worldwide, with the end goal of disrupting the assumption that "having lots of kids is what we do."
- CIRES researchers are uncovering new information about the mysterious world of tiny microbes living inside your showerhead.
- A new study by CU Boulder pain researcher Pavel Goldstein shows that when an empathetic partner holds the hand of a lover in pain, the couple's heart rates sync and the pain subsides.
- Fake news websites had about twice as much influence on the media landscape as fact-checking websites did, according to new research by the College of Media, Communication and Information.
- Though Americans may find the thought of eating insects unappetizing, CU Boulder alum Dave Baugh and twin brother Lars are aiming to normalize bugs in the American diet.
- Teenagers and young adults think and act differently from grownups. Marie Banich is helping us see why.
- A CU Boulder project is ramping up efforts to provide the public with the latest information on healthy aging, including scientific evidence on what to do and eat for better health.