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Aaron Clauset and his team found that only 25 percent of doctoral degree-granting institutions across the country produce 71 to 86 percent of tenure-track faculty, depending on the field.

For the first time since its founding at CU Boulder in 2002, the Topplers Domino Award opened to students from other universities for 2014-15. More than 100 students from 44 schools participated in the essay competition, but when the judging was complete, two of the three awards still came home...

Assistant professor Shaun Kane recently spoke with TeleRead about how a prototype he created could be used to make Kindle e-readers more accessible to visually impaired readers.

Thanks to a scholarship from the Casey Feldman Memorial Foundation, junior computer science major Zach Doyle recently had the chance to expand his programming skills while giving back to a local nonprofit.

For the second year in a row, CU-Boulder’s Scalable Game Design (SGD) has a participating activity in Code.org’s Hour of Code and Computer Science Education Week , scheduled for Dec. 8-14, 2014. With SGD’s AgentCubes Online, students get to code, play and share their own 3D Frogger-style game with children...

After two days of competition at the OWASP AppSec conference in Denver in September, several members of the CU Hacking Club took home first place in the team category of the Capture the Flag (CTF) security tournament, beating out 10 teams from other schools and from industry. Team member Davis...

EdTrex LLC, the University of Colorado and the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) on Oct. 28, 2014, announced an exclusive option agreement allowing EdTrex to continue developing a software platform enabling on-demand creation of customizable curricula using curated open education resources. The company is actively engaged in extending its...

DIBBS: Martha Palmer and James Martin On Oct. 1, $31 million in grants were announced as part of the second year of the Data Infrastructure Building Blocks (DIBBs) program. The program supports the NSF’s priority goals “to improve the nation's capacity in data science by investing in the development of...

Throughout her career, Laura Mather (AppMath’94, MS CompSci’96, PhD CompSci’98) has focused on making the world a better place. She’s proud that her security startup, Silver Tail, was helping to keep 1.5 billion online accounts safe when she sold it in 2012 . That sale has since allowed her to...

Junior computer science major Tommy Hoffmann and his team, Overly Kinetic, recently won the Dare to be Digital competition in Dundee, Scotland, and were one of three teams nominated for the prestigious Ones to Watch Award by the British Academy of Film and Television (BAFTA). Hoffmann was invited to join...