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📚 Some BVSD schools may close. Here’s what we know.
1+ day, 13+ hour ago (1078+ words) And the latest on the NCAR and NIST fronts, with NIST appearing to shift course after BRL's reporting and Rep. Joe Neguse calling for an investigation into alleged plans to transfer part of NCAR's space weather program to a private…...
Mary Rippon, CU Boulder’s first female professor, lived a secret life
2+ day, 31+ min ago (422+ words) Silvia Pettem is the author of "Separate Lives: Uncovering the Hidden Family of Victorian Professor Mary Rippon." My interest in the Rippon collection began in 1993 when the same librarian suggested that the documents might be of interest to me. I…...
Too many schools, too few students: BVSD begins planning possible closures
2+ day, 30+ min ago (1444+ words) When Boulder Valley School District leaders unveiled a process for possible school closures earlier this year, the conversation centered largely on numbers: enrollment projections, building capacity and financial pressures. But behind those spreadsheets is a more human reality: teachers wondering…...
New federal rules at Boulder's NIST could force international scientists out
3+ week, 6+ day ago (864+ words) The National Institute of Standards and Technology, including its Boulder campus, is enacting new rules that would cap international graduate students and postdoctoral researchers at three years and require top-level review of the agreements granting them lab access. Institute sources…...
CU Regents face calls to support collective bargaining, end Key Lime Air contract tied to ICE flights
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (512+ words) Public comment at the University of Colorado Board of Regents meeting on Feb. 5 focused on two demands: support for collective bargaining for university employees and an end to CU's contract with Key Lime Air. "Please support collective bargaining rights for…...
Remembering Peter James Baston, engineer and innovator guided by integrity and excellence
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (958+ words) Remembering Peter James Baston, engineer and innovator guided by integrity and excellence'The Boulder Reporting Lab Peter James Baston passed away Jan. 7, 2026, after a valiant battle against cancer. He was at home, receiving hospice care, in the loving company of family…...
Nearly a quarter of Boulder Valley teachers call out amid anti-ICE 'National Shutdown"
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (238+ words) Boulder Valley School District schools will remain open Friday, Jan. 30, despite a significant staffing shortage after nearly one-quarter of teachers submitted leave in connection with a planned national protest urging people to stay home from work, school and shopping. District…...
☕ At CU Boulder, students engineer coffee, chocolate and beer
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (1737+ words) Today's Nibbles makes me jealous of today's college students and their potential food and beverage careers. I talked with Carmen Pacheco, renowned for her wonderful mole sauce, about her groundbreaking engineering classes in coffee, chocolate and beer at CU Boulder....
The wild origin story of CU Boulder — and the reporter who chronicled its beginning
2+ mon, 21+ hour ago (930+ words) When the University of Colorado was founded in 1876, newspaper reporter Amos Bixby was on the scene. What he found was the University Building (now called Old Main) alone on a barren mesa facing downtown Boulder. Several years later, and after…...
Nibbles: BVSD students dish on school lunches — what they love and what they don’t
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (1247+ words) A Boulder Reporting Lab reader recently asked a reasonable question: "I am wondering if you go "undercover" to review a restaurant. Can your review be unbiased if they know who you are?" I"m not a dining critic, although I…...