Most strains of influenza go undiagnosed or are identified in a lab days or weeks later. Fast and accurate flu tests are important when new strains of influenza emerge. A flu test invented at CU-Boulder in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will allow medical practitioners quickly to determine the type of flu in an infected person—within an hour—using a handheld device the size of a cell phone.
Four CU-Boulder undergraduate students were awarded a David L. Boren Scholarship, one of the most competitive and coveted national scholarships for undergraduate international study.
Social media and technologies that support peer-to-peer communication are being used in increasingly creative ways in the aftermath of disasters by people who are either seeking or sharing information that is unavailable from more traditional sources, research at CU-Boulder has found.
Eighty-eight percent of the country’s top criminologists don’t believe the death penalty acts as a deterrent to homicide, according to a study conducted by Professor Michael Radelet, chair of the sociology department at CU-Boulder, and Traci Lacock, an attorney and CU-Boulder graduate student in sociology.
When PhD candidate Jason Roadman and his research group needed a working wind tunnel to test the micro aerial vehicles (MAVs) he’d been helping to engineer, he made one. He refurbished a defunct, stripped down wind tunnel from the mechanical engineering department and developed the computer programs that reconfigured it into an operational test facility.
Since arriving on the Boulder campus in 2000, Professor Dusinberre has taken the appeal of classics and applied a novel approach to teaching it, using a variety of instructional techniques—including multimedia and the Internet—to bring the ancient world to life for her students.
Add another win for CU-Boulder runner Jenny Barringer, who won her second USA Track and Field 3,000-meter steeplechase title in July 2009.
After successful careers with NASA, former astronauts Joe Tanner, John Grunsfeld and Jim Voss have set their sights on a new challenge: helping CU-Boulder students reach their academic goals.
Rare Navajo weavings from what is considered one of the finest Southwest textile collections in the world are on display at the CU-Boulder Museum of Natural History.
