Arts & Humanities
- A delegation from the Black Hills of South Dakota exchanged gifts with researchers and explored the potential to expand their award-winning scientific collaboration with researchers from CU Boulder and around the world.
- Upon the 65th anniversary of the Motown record label, a CU Boulder professor says that, from Taylor Swift to K-pop, “It’s all Motown; they are not creating anything new.”
- Sixty years after The Beatles’ first appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show,” CU Boulder historian Martin Babicz reflects on their impact on U.S. culture and politics.
- Romance authors were early adopters of digital self-publishing. A new book by Christine Larson explores how their willingness to experiment and their close networks helped them thrive when the publishing industry shunned their work.
- CU Boulder Asian languages faculty members Yingjie Li and Yu Zhang reflect on what some consider the luckiest year in the Chinese zodiac.
- An expert from the College of Media, Communication and Information notes that, in its ongoing conquest of legacy media studios, the tech industry has made use of a very old playbook.
- At what would have been Al Capone’s 125th birthday, CU Boulder cinema researcher Tiel Lundy explains the enduring popularity of gangsters in film and the American imagination.
- In this month’s campus update, David Humphrey, assistant vice chancellor for diversity, equity and inclusion, discusses why it’s important to keep history relevant and alive.
- CU Boulder Associate Professor Kelly Sears is premiering her short animated feature “The Lost Season” at the Sundance Film Festival.
- As we prepare to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Professor Ashleigh Lawrence Sanders shares insight on King’s fuller legacy, his trajectory as an activist and why people tend to boil him down to a few simplistic words and phrases.