Arts & Humanities
- On International Dance Day, Erika Randall, a CU Boulder professor of dance, reflects on the popular advice that can apply to both dance and life.
- A team co-led by classics researcher Yvona Trnka-Amrhein unearthed the upper portion of a huge, ancient pharaonic statue whose lower half was discovered in 1930. Ramessess II was immortalized in Percy Bysshe Shelly鈥檚 鈥淥zymandia.鈥
- The College of Music鈥檚 Thompson Jazz Studies Program will be shaking up this year鈥檚 commencement ceremony with new takes on the timeless 鈥淧omp and Circumstance,鈥 reimagined in the styles of Latin jazz, New Orleans funk and big band swing.
- CU Boulder鈥檚 vast and historically valuable Glenn Miller collection is set to take the spotlight, thanks to a philanthropy-funded archiving project. Miller attended CU Boulder before becoming one of the most successful big band musicians of the 20th century.
- Remembering writer Raymond Chandler at the 65th anniversary of his death, a CU Boulder English scholar reflects on the hard-boiled investigator and why this character still appeals.
- CU Boulder archaeologist Sarah Kurnick addresses some common myths about archaeology at the 50th anniversary of the discovery of China鈥檚 terracotta warriors.
- 鈥淭he Angel of Indian Lake,鈥 book three of CU Boulder Professor Stephen Graham Jones鈥 Indian Lake Trilogy, comes out this month. In writing it, Jones became acquainted with a fear even he hadn鈥檛 imagined.
- A population estimate considering now-decomposed wooden houses suggests that Silchester, England, may have been typical of towns across the Roman Empire, CU Boulder researcher finds.
- CU Boulder鈥檚 chair of Cinema Studies and Moving Image Arts shares insights on Stanley Kubrick鈥檚 masterpiece 鈥渄oomsday sex comedy鈥 and why the film is more relevant than ever.
- Climate change has disproportionate impacts globally, and a new analysis identifies compelling coverage by news outlets in less-resourced countries, where reporting on the issue is done in unique and in-depth ways.