A study by researchers at the University of Colorado and the University of Minnesota uses long-term data on twins to assess the impacts of cannabis legalization
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University of Colorado hires Deion Sanders to turn around football program
Colorado will prove a challenge for the magnetic Sanders, who inherits a program coming off a 1-11 season. But he brings instant name recognition and a track record of being able to recruit top-level talent.
Posted inOutdoors
The history of Colorado climbers who summit buildings instead of mountains
Many top Colorado climbing guides and pros have stories about buildering, the late-night ascents of campus buildings and public art that shaped their passions and careers.
Posted inPolitics and Government
Joe Biden has made Colorado’s Camp Hale a national monument. Could a future president unravel it?
National Monuments have been political footballs since the Antiquities Act came to be in 1906. But so far court cases haven’t changed the president’s authority to shrink or grow them.
Posted inEducation
Fired director Patty Limerick blurred line between work and private life, CU Center of the American West audit says
Dismissal a week before audit was delivered is “totally mystifying” to Patty Limerick who had begun succession planning for the Center of the American West at University of Colorado
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Executive board overseeing University of Colorado center quits after director Patty Limerick’s firing
Limerick, the co-founder and 37-year director of the University of Colorado’s Center of the American West, was fired Sept. 23.
Posted inEducation
Patty Limerick fired from CU Center of the American West she co-founded 36 years ago
Iconic professor, author and scholar created the Center of the American West to document and explore history, politics, traditions and culture of western U.S.
Posted inOpinion Columns
Zornio: Shame on CU regents for prioritizing themselves over faculty and students
The latest “whoops” by regents reveals a systemic issue with murky ethics and financial decisions
Posted inBusiness
Engine problems make NASA scrub launch of new moon rocket carrying Colorado-made capsule and experiments
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA called off the launch of its mighty new moon rocket on its debut flight with three test dummies aboard Monday after a last-minute cascade of problems culminating in unexplained trouble related to an engine. The next launch attempt will not take place until Friday at the earliest and could be […]
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All the cool Colorado universities and colleges have one: a mountain campus
This fall, about 1,500 first-year University of Denver students will take turns descending winding mountain roads toward a cluster of rustic cabins, an open field containing a ropes course and barely any cellphone service. It’s something of a “digital desert,” said Jeremy Haefner, chancellor of the University of Denver, but it offers an amenity hard […]