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After a year as Associate Dean for the Arts and Humanities, what are my thoughts? How did I manage my first year? For one, I came in the job with much enthusiasm and the desire to advocate for the Arts and Humanities. That enthusiasm remains, but mitigated by the basic...

Published author and English Professor Stephen Graham Jones relies on his students to bring in new ideas and new ways of seeing things. Students—immersed in his courses on werewolves, comic books, slasher novels, screenwriting and haunted houses—rely on Jones to paint a picture of the writer’s life.

A study led by the University of Adelaide and including the Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ indicates giant ice age-era mammals that roamed Patagonia until about 12,300 years ago were finally felled by a rapidly warming climate, not by a sudden onslaught of the first human hunters.

Roundleaf buffaloberry, Shepherdia rotundifolia, grows as a shrub three to six feet tall, but its color makes it a conspicuous member of the plant community on the Colorado Plateau. Its leaves are approximately an inch in diameter, oval, and the leaf edges are turned under—hence the name roundleaf. The leaves are thick but pliable, with a dense layer of trichomes that creates the distinctive silvery green color.

A flagger controlling traffic at a road repair site told me that I would be allowed to pass in a few minutes, so I got out of my vehicle and started a conversation with her. I am indebted to Ana Jarvis, for when I told her that I was doing photography, she walked me the 10 feet to the edge of the cliff and pointed out a herd of bighorn that was not visible from the road.

Two advisors in the College of Arts & Sciences have been recognized in the past year by the National Academic Advising Association (NACADA), a national association of professional advisors, counselors, faculty, administrators and students working to enhance the educational development of students.

Global emissions of ethane, an air pollutant and greenhouse gas, are on the uptick again, according to a new study led by the Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ.

The perpetually ice-covered lakes in Antarctica’s McMurdo Dry Valleys preserve the dissolved remnants of black carbon from thousand-year-old wildfires as well as modern day fossil fuel use, according to a new study led by the Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ.

The Colorado Shakespeare Festival’s season of myths, legends and fairy tales under the stars continues with the rarely staged Troilus and Cressida, a thrilling and timeless Trojan War epic penned by the Bard in 1602. The play opens June 24 on the Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre and runs through Aug. 6.

The seven undergraduate students in Professor Jeffrey Zax’s Applied Economic Analysis and Public Policy class didn’t stop at analyzing the economic impact of bills considered during the recently concluded legislative session. They even showed up to testify.