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Keeping indoor air clean can reduce chance of spreading coronavirus

Nov. 20, 2020

Being indoors with other people is a recipe for spreading COVID-19, but removing airborne particles through proper ventilation and air filtration can reduce risk. Professor Shelly Miller shares on The Conversation.

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Talking criminal justice with Benjamin Levin

Nov. 18, 2020

Law Professor Benjamin Levin discusses the relationship between the COVID-19 pandemic and criminal justice reform, police unions and their role in policymaking, and mass incarceration in the United States.

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The great outdoors: COVID-19-compatible learning experiences for all

Nov. 3, 2020

The pandemic poses new opportunities for healthier learning: moving school classrooms to the great outdoors.

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Watch 'Unlocking COVID-19 through Open Access' with Morteza Karimzadeh

Oct. 26, 2020

In this video series produced by the University Libraries and the Center for Research Data & Digital Scholarship, faculty and researchers use the open access publishing model to make their work on COVID-19 more accessible.

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Remnants of ancient viruses could be shaping coronavirus response, says new Packard Fellow

Oct. 15, 2020

Ed Chuong, an assistant professor in the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, has been awarded a prestigious $875,000 Packard Fellowship to study how remnants of ancient viruses shape modern-day immune response.

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Aerosol research instrumental in getting musicians back to playing safely

Oct. 14, 2020

A ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ research team of scientists and musicians seeks to find out how musical ensembles around the world can continue to safely perform music together during the pandemic.

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Fake COVID-19 news makes you want to treat yourself on the cheap

Oct. 13, 2020

People exposed to fake news during the already uncertain COVID-19 era are simultaneously compelled to treat themselves and to try to save money, according to new research.

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Oct. 14 webinar addresses COVID-19’s effect on children, families, college students

Oct. 7, 2020

Leading experts in psychology at ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ, CU Anschutz and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital are hosting a panel and Q&A about the profound impact the pandemic has had on the mental health of children, family and college students.

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Singing unmasked, indoors spreads COVID-19 through aerosols, new study confirms

Sept. 17, 2020

Singing indoors, unmasked, can swiftly spread COVID-19 via microscopic airborne particles known as aerosols, confirms a new peer-reviewed study of a March choir rehearsal that became one of the nation’s first superspreading events.

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How music of past pandemics can predict human behavior now

Sept. 14, 2020

Austin Okigbo, an associate professor of ethnomusicology, studies South African music created during epidemics. According to Okigbo, certain themes reverberate through periods of widespread illness.

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