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As part of Radio 1190's 2020 Election night coverage, Professor John Eastman explains the electoral college and his stance on the system used to determine the US's presidency. In the 2020 election, Colorado voters were able to vote on Proposition 113, which, if passed, would result in Colorado joining the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, an agreement between states to award their electora...

Holly Olivarez, Student Leader of DiversifyCUNow, discusses the group's formation at CU Boulder, its purpose of amplifying the voices of CU's BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) community, and their journey so far. Olivarez goes over the actions DiversifyCUNow has helped to amplify, how members of the CU community can educate themselves on BIPOC issues and elevate BIPOC voices, how the...

Michael McDevitt, professor of Journalism and Media Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder and author of "Where Ideas Go to Die: The Fate of Intellect in American Journalism," discusses the directive put forth by the University of Colorado to their communications staff over the summer of 2020. According to the Denver Post, which broke the news on the directive, communications staff were tol...

Laura Gonzalez, a graduate of CU's Chemistry Department and a staff member at CU's College of Arts and Sciences, shares her experience as a member of CU's BIPOC community. In this interview, Gonzalez describes her experience as a student and staff member at the university as well as her experience taking part in a press conference on August 18th in which she spoke on divestment at CU, specifically...

In this interview, Gwendalynn Roebke, an undergraduate in CU Boulder's Distributed Studies studying neuroscience, astrophysics, and philosophy, and Alejandra Abad, a graduate student at CU Boulder studying Interdisciplinary Media Arts Practices, discuss their silhouette-based installations that have appeared on the CU Boulder campus and their experiences as members of CU's BIPOC (Black, Indigenous...

In this interview, Chelsea Castellano of Boulder ballot initiative Bedrooms are for People, an initiative that wanted to let Boulder voters decide whether or not to change Boulder's occupancy limit, speaks on their experience after having their recent appeal to the Colorado Supreme Court dismissed. After being given incorrect deadlines for collecting petition signatures, and the Boulder City Counc...

In this interview, Nick Grossman of Boulder ballot initiative Bedrooms are for People, an initiative that wanted to let Boulder voters decide whether or not to change Boulder's occupancy limit, speaks on their experience after having their recent appeal to the Colorado Supreme Court dismissed. After being given incorrect deadlines for collecting petition signatures, and the Boulder City Council vo...

Vyga Kaufmann, PhD, a licensed clinical psychologist and a part-time instructor in CU Boulder's Psychology and Neuroscience department, discusses some of the psychological effects and responses of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Topics discussed involve the effect on those with preexisting mental health conditions, who has been hit hard by the pandemic, how some individuals can over-isolate, how co...

On this News Underground interview, CU Mycology Postdoctoral Researcher Arthur Grupe discusses nosema, a fungal pathogen affecting bees, and how little is known about its relationship with native bees. Grupe also discusses nosema's history, how nosema's impact has been felt by humans, and how listeners can help these native bees. Originally recorded on July 20th, 2020. Interview by News Director J...

Bedrooms Are for People organizers Nick Grossman and Chelsea Castellano are part of one of several ballot initiatives that had attempted to get their measure onto the ballot this November. However, after incorrect guidance from Boulder officials gave them the wrong deadline for gathering petition signatures, City Attorney Tom Carr recommended that Boulder City Council "use its own power to refer a...

On July 6th, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced that international students taking a fully online course load this fall cannot stay in the US. In order to aid students who needed to come back to the US, CU Boulder Professor Roger Pielke Jr. offered to set up an in-person independent study with any international student who needed it. News Underground sits down with Professor Pielke t...

In this interview, CU Boulder Off-Campus Housing & Neighborhood Relations Director Jeff Morris explains how the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic affects how students search for housing in Boulder, how students can get financial help, social distancing between students, and more. Originally recorded on June 10th, 2020. Interview by News Director John Boughey.

In this interview, Associate Director of the National Education Policy Center (NEPC) Michelle Renée Valladares, Ph. D., and Graduate Research Assistant Kate Somerville, a Ph. D. student specializing in Educational Foundations, Policy and Practice, go over the issues impacting K-12 education in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Issues include children's privacy concerns, the impacts of online edu...

In this interview, Boulder County Public Health's Public Information Officer, Chana Goussetis, discusses the restrictions put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic. Goussetis goes over Boulder County's mask order, stay-at-home vs. safer-at-home, how Boulder County Public Health works with local businesses, and more. Originally recorded on June 3rd, 2020. Interview by News Director John Boughey.

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CU Boulder Assistant Professor of Biochemistry Sabrina Spencer discusses her findings on how cells choose to divide and reproduce. Spencer found that the decision to divide is made during the entire mother cycle of a cell, contrary to the textbook model of cell division. However, according to Spencer, before the textbook model can be overturned, others would also have to come to a similar conclusi...

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Professor Elizabeth Fenn, the Walter and Lucienne Driskill Professor of Western American History at CU Boulder, discusses her book, "Pox Americana," and the history of epidemics in America. The book centers around a smallpox epidemic that took place around the time of the American Revolution. Originally recorded on April 17, 2020. Interview by News Director John Boughey.

Nicholas Meyerson, CEO of Darwin Biosciences, Postdoctoral Associate at CU Boulder's Biofrontiers Institute, and scientist at CU Boulder's Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology Department discusses the SickStick, a new test to tell if someone is sick. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the team behind the test has begun developing a version that can test for the disease. The startup's test won fi...

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Assistant Professor Daniel Larremore, a member of CU Boulder's Department of Computer Science and Biofrontiers Institute, discusses working on the COVID-19 Mobility Data Network. The project uses Facebook location data to help understand how people travel during the COVID-19 crisis. To read the write-up mentioned by Professor Larremore on social distancing and the COVID-19 slowdown from the Colora...

An interview with Professor J. Sean Humbert of CU Boulder's College of Engineering and Applied Science on CU's participation in the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA)'s Subterranean Challenge. The challenge asks teams to build autonomous drones that can map and navigate underground environments. Interview by News Director John Boughey. Originally aired on March 9th, 2020.