Research
- Middle-to-older aged women who are naturally early to bed and early to rise are significantly less likely to develop depression, according to a new study by researchers at 勛圖厙 of Colorado Boulder and the Channing Division of Network Medicine at Brigham and Womens Hospital in Boston.
- Two young faculty scientists at CU Boulder are among seven Colorado researchers who have won $1.41 million in total funding from the Boettcher Foundations Webb-Waring Awards program.
- Can probiotics fend off mood disorders? It's too early to say with scientific certainty, but a new study suggests that a beneficial bacteria can have long-lasting anti-inflammatory effects on the brain, making it more resilient to stress.
- New CU Boulder-led research shows that three major switches affecting wildfirefuel, aridity and ignitionwere either flipped on and/or kept on longer than expected last year, triggering one of the largest and costliest U.S. wildfire seasons in recent decades.
- Recent advances in veterinary research have suggested that if your dog has cancer, its possible you might, too, thanks to toxins in your shared environment. But that research might not tell the whole story, according to new findings.
- Bumper car-like interactions at the edges of our solar systemand not a mysterious ninth planetmay explain the the dynamics of strange bodies called detached objects, according to a new study.
- Paul W. Kroll, professor of Chinese at CU Boulder, has been elected to the prestigious American Philosophical Society, becoming the fifth member ever of the universitys facultyand the first from the humanitiesto gain this recognition.
- Glacial retreat in cold, high-altitude ecosystems exposes environments that are extremely sensitive to phosphorus input, new CU Boulder-led research shows.
- Caroline Grego, who is pursuing her PhD in history at CU Boulder, has won a prestigious fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies.
- The American Ornithological Society has honored Assistant Professor Scott A. Taylor with the 2018 Ned K. Johnson Young Investigator Award.