Graduate Student Edition - June 26, 2025
Campus Community
Get ready for Phish at Folsom Field July 3–5
From tickets to parking to what to bring—and what to leave at home—here’s what you need to know.
Astronaut Sarah Gillis 1st to play violin in space
SpaceX's Sarah Gillis made history by becoming the youngest astronaut to complete a spacewalk and perform the first violin recital in space.
Events & Exhibits
'Richard II' to take stage July 5–Aug. 10
When corrupt, despotic King Richard II ventures off to wage war, the banished Bolingbroke invades to reclaim his stolen inheritance.
Faculty Takes
Rainy spring may be bad news for fire season. Here’s what you can do about it
Ecologist Katharine Suding shares insights on the increasing risks of grassland fire across the country.
Research Corner
We still need a bigger boat
Fifty years after "Jaws" made swimmers flee the ocean, ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Boulder cinema scholar Ernesto Acevedo-Muñoz explains how the 1975 summer hit endures as a classic.
What does a baby's babbling tell you about future intelligence? More than you think
A new study of 1,000 twins followed since infancy shows that measurements of general cognitive ability at 7 months of age can help predict what it will be 30 years later. The findings suggest that early life environment matters more than previously realized.
Mortenson Center innovations delivering clean water to more than 16 million worldwide
ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Boulder's Mortenson Center in Global Engineering & Resilience is building a new model for global water access, one that is grounded in a deep understanding of why so many past efforts have fallen short.
ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Boulder establishes Colorado Space Policy Center
ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Boulder has established the Colorado Space Policy Center—designed for original research; discussion and debate on space policy issues; educational programming and more.
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