Commenting on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s designation of whitebark pine as threatened with potential extinction, Diana Tomback, Biology Professor and Policy Director of the Whitebark Pine Ecosystem Foundation said, “We know how to find genetic resistance to white pine blister rust and there's a number of whitebark pine...

Caribbean Isles represented an affordable retirement dream. Residents thought it would stay that way after they sold the park — and their protection. Previously, homeowners with shares in the park paid a small monthly fee for maintenance and management. When it came to major decisions about the park, they each...

“College programs in prison provide students with the tools to change them from incarcerated people into tax-paying citizens. It is fiscally, ethically, and logically superior to the way we currently do things. And most importantly, it reduces recidivism,” said formerly incarcerated Communication Lecturer, Ben Boyce. Commentary - Educating Incarcerated Individuals:...

“Past research linked the introduction of the oral contraceptive pill in the 1960s to women’s college completion, but it was unclear whether improvements in access to contraception in the contemporary U.S. would yield similar results,” said Health and Behavioral Sciences Professor and lead author, Sara Yeatman. Her study, published in...

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...

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...