Phi Phi Island in Thailand packed with tourists

What’s Hollywood’s dirtiest secret? Its environmental toll

Jan. 27, 2020

From classics such as “Gone with the Wind” to modern films such as “Avatar,” the movie industry packs a serious, and often hidden, environmental cost, says film scholar Hunter Vaughan.

Audience members sit in chairs. (Photo by The Climate Reality Project on Unsplash)

Imagined Borders, Epistemic Freedoms—a conference Jan. 7–11

Jan. 2, 2020

While we often think of borders in a physical sense, there are also intangible borders that shape the ways we think, learn and teach. Learn more at the Center for Media, Religion and Culture conference. Some portions of the event are free and open to the public.

2018 Aerials over CU Boulder and surrounding Boulder area. (Photo by Glenn Asakawa/University of Colorado)

CMCI developing new student media enterprise for next fall

Dec. 9, 2019

The College of Media, Communication and Information is developing a new student multimedia enterprise set to roll out next fall.

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Unboxing videos fueling kids’ tantrums, breeding consumerism

Dec. 3, 2019

Seventy-eight percent of children, ages 4 to 10, watch unboxing videos online—videos of people opening toys. The more they watch, the more likely they are to make purchase demands on parents and throw tantrums when they don't get what they want.

A woman seen through facial recognition software

Facial recognition software has a gender problem

Oct. 8, 2019

Facial analysis software is becoming increasingly prevalent for marketing and security, but new research shows it gets the gender of trans men wrong nearly 40% of the time and misgenders nonbinary individuals 100% of the time.

Security cameras

Who’s watching you? How privacy is changing in the digital age

July 24, 2019

On this episode of the Brainwaves podcast, we’re following news of a mobile app getting access to images of your face and more.

Panel discussion participants

Journalism in an age of distraction

Feb. 18, 2019

What motivates journalists to keep going even when the news is so bleak—both for society and for journalism itself? Join the Center for Environmental Journalism for a panel discussion Feb. 20.

Chuck Plunkett

National Press Club honors CU Boulder's Chuck Plunkett for 'clarion call to save local journalism'

Nov. 29, 2018

After publishing a special section decrying massive layoffs at The Denver Post and criticizing its owners, former editorial page editor turned CU News Corps Director Chuck Plunkett will be honored for igniting a national dialogue.

A historic photo promoting farming and electric co-ops

Co-ops enjoying renaissance in the digital age

Nov. 7, 2018

More than 200 co-op members flocked to the CU Boulder campus in early November for a celebration of shared-ownership models and the launch of several new initiatives to support the co-op movement.

Camp site in Antarctica

CU Boulder brings in record $511 million in research funding

Sept. 7, 2018

CU Boulder faculty brought in record levels of sponsored research funding in 2017-18 for pioneering research on polar ice loss, digital communications, clean air and more.

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