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English Professor, Cynthia Wong, recently contributed some literary remarks to the BBC program, The Exploding Library . The “warped literature” series of this book-lovers program returned for a new run where comedians explode and unravel their most cherished cult books, paying homage to the tone and style of the original...

Michael Moore, Assistant Professor of Integrative Biology, studies dragonfly coloration and how it impacts sexual selection. But increasingly there is a twist: “We’re all realizing, ‘Oh, we need to be studying reproduction in addition to survival if we’re going to understand how organisms are going to respond to the climate...

Honorary Aurora Poet Laureate and Creative Writing Alum, Ahja Fox, is proud of being born and raised in the diverse City of Aurora. And while Fox is quick to credit her caring teachers and mentors for instilling a love of poetry, what originally "started her pen” was seeing a collection of...

Geography and Environmental Sciences Instructor Kris Christensen said “we do need to densify our city” to address the housing shortage. But it can come at a cost, she added. the new, tall apartment buildings on Welton and Brighton might give newcomers a place to live, but they may not create...

Andrew Scahill, Assistant English Professor and author of The Revolting Child in Horror Cinema , suggests ‘surrogacy theory’ may be another reason we are drawn to horror movies. “Horror films allow us in a way to control our fear of death by giving us a surrogate experience,” he says. Spooky...

Michael J. Berry, Associate Professor, Chair, and Director of Graduate Studies for the Department of Political Science, was recently interviewed by a reporter for a story on ballot measures in the upcoming midterm elections. Ballot measures in five states would expand legislative powers Plurbis News , October 13

The anti-vaccine movement used to be a place where the left met the right, but increased polarization during the pandemic has made such a combination difficult to sustain, says Sociology Professor Jennifer Reich. “When we start to see such vastly different sources of information about what the risks of infection...

“The authors’ primary finding that human-like prenatal growth rates emerged less than one million years ago, in concert with major increases in brain size, is convincing,” says Anna Warrener, Assistant Professor of Anthropology. “Teeth are frequently found in the fossil record and would be a fantastic tool for such evaluations...

The Spanish spoken for hundreds of years in the San Luis region of Colorado first arrived in the 1500s, when Spaniards and mestizos from Mexico brought words from the old and new worlds as they settled in what is now New Mexico. As mestizos and colonists clashed and then blended...

The largest and most important of the federal programs addressing food insecurity is SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. The program helps feed more than 42 million Americans each month. Two-thirds of the people participating in the program are children, over 65 or people with disabilities. “SNAP has become the...