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University of Colorado at Boulder Interim Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Stein Sture has announced the commencement of a national search for the next dean of the Leeds School of Business at CU-Boulder.

An extremely small RNA molecule created by a University of Colorado at Boulder team can catalyze a key reaction needed to synthesize proteins, the building blocks of life. The findings could be a substantial step toward understanding "the very origin of Earthly life," the lead researcher contends.

Mass media have been a key vehicle by which climate change contrarianism has traveled, according to Maxwell Boykoff, a University of Colorado at Boulder professor and fellow of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, or CIRES.

For nearly half a century, scientists have been trying to figure out how to build a cost-effective and reasonably sized X-ray laser that could, among other things, provide super high-resolution imaging. And for the past two decades, University of Colorado at Boulder physics professors Margaret Murnane and Henry Kapteyn have been inching closer to that goal.

Researchers who devised the largest earthquake preparedness event ever undertaken in the United States say one of the biggest challenges was translating devastation projections from a hypothetical magnitude 7.8 San Andreas Fault temblor into timely, usable information to the more than 5 million California participants in 2008.

Gravity always wins, one might think. Avalanches roar and skiers plunge inexorably downhill. But moguls -- or bumps, as skiers know them -- move uphill.

Construction noise in Norlin Library earlier this evening prompted a 911 call to the University of Colorado Police Department with a report of shots being fired. Officers from CUPD responded within five minutes and quickly determined the noise was from a high-pressure nail gun being used in active construction in another portion of the library. Police cleared the scene within minutes and without incident.

Two University of Colorado at Boulder physicists are part of a collaborative team working with the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York that have created the hottest temperature matter ever measured in the universe -- 7.2 trillion degrees Fahrenheit.

Student journalists at the University of Colorado at Boulder are addressing issues of inclusivity and diversity through a bold, groundbreaking new awareness campaign announced today with U.S. Rep. Jared Polis as the keynote speaker.

"Still Chained? The Overrepresentation of African-Americans in the Criminal Justice System" is the title of a one-day conference to be hosted by the University of Colorado at Boulder Law School on Feb. 19 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.