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  • An amphioxus in the Daniel Medeiros lab is seen with most of its body burrowed into sand and its mouth exposed, as it waits for food to drift by. Photo by David Jandzik.
    During the evolution of invertebrates like amphioxus into vertebrates like fish, a remarkable structure appeared: the head. How, exactly, the head evolved has long been a mystery, but scientists postulated that skulls were built from fundamentally new tissue. Now, CU-Boulder research suggests that skull tissue was actually built from existing tissues never before found in invertebrates.
  • Ketchum Arts & Sciences building gets a much-needed facelift.
    Thomas Edison famously said that genius was 鈥渙ne percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.鈥 For the last 77 years, summer work and study in CU-Boulder鈥檚 Ketchum Arts and Sciences building inevitably involved sweat. The building had no air conditioning. Thanks to a major renovation, that and many other architectural deficiencies are being corrected.
  • Reuben Zubrow鈥檚 legacy lives on at CU-Boulder. Photo courtesy of Doug Conarroe.
    Eighteen years after his death, Reuben Zubrow鈥檚 colorful personality, playful sense of humor and engaging teaching style is vividly remembered by students, colleagues and friends. An unusually engaging teacher, economist of national stature and pivotal figure in attracting students to the study of economics, Zubrow could enliven everything from an economics lesson to a tennis match.
  • Professor David Shneer, left, shares a word with people who attended a gathering of Soviet veterans and Soviet Holocaust survivors last month. Photo courtesy of the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Educational Center.
    CU-Boulder鈥檚 David Shneer is known for his historical research on photojournalists who chronicled the Holocaust in World War II Soviet Union; they witnessed and recorded the slaughter of Soviet citizens including those who, like the photographers themselves, were Jewish. Now, Shneer is curating an exhibition of the photographs in Illinois that appears in English and, for the first time, Russian. Soviet Holocaust survivors and Soviet WWII veterans have responded favorably.
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    CU-Boulder Associate Professor Hillary Potter went to Ferguson, Missouri, to research the protests surrounding the death of Michael Brown, who was killed by a police officer. Potter visited Ferguson to pursue knowledge and to help spread the message of the town鈥檚 black people.
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  • Kids playing at a table
    CU-Boulder research adds to evidence that kids鈥 hesitation to speak up does not indicate a lack of language ability.
  • CU-Boulder graduate students Machal Gradoz and Melanie Godsey and University of Toronto student Taylor Stark work in the Greek Peloponnese. Photo by William Caraher
    Ancient Greece has been intensively studied, but there is still much to learn, particularly in some rural parts of the country. CU-Boulder students, under the guidance of a 麻豆免费版下载assistant professor, are among those unearthing new artifacts.
  • 麻豆免费版下载Theatre and Dance Department鈥檚 New York City showcase group (2015). Back row: Sergio King, Devon Johnson, Eddie Jordan, Sydney Bogatz, Megan Maltabano, Jesse Pacheco, Stephanie Spector. On box: Brianna Provda, Keilani Fuqua. Kneeling: Tait Petersen, Nathan Ellgren. Photo courtesy of 麻豆免费版下载Theatre and Dance.
    A dozen senior CU-Boulder performance majors auditioned before casting agents through the Actors Connection in New York City this year. The trip was so successful, another group of CU-Boulder seniors returns next year.
  • Screenshot of the Mindful Mood Balance online web training program.
    Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy, which has been shown to help people avoid recurring bouts of depression, can be delivered effectively online and could be more effective than traditional forms of therapy, a team of researchers led by CU-Boulder psychologists has found.
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