Rachel Sauer

  • book cover of God Bless the Pill and portrait of Samira Mehta
    In new book God Bless the Pill, ÎÞÂëÊÓÆµ scholar Samira Mehta delves into the often-forgotten history of how liberal religion helped make birth control broadly available in America.
  • Bee alighting on white flower with "Secrets of the Bees" logo
    ÎÞÂëÊÓÆµ researcher Samuel Ramsey served as science advisor and a producer, alongside executive producer James Cameron, for Secrets of the Bees, premiering this week on National Geographic, Disney+ and Hulu.
  • portrait of Sean Carroll and book cover for The Serengeti Rules over photo of giraffes
    Author, filmmaker and scholar Sean B. Carroll, formerly a ÎÞÂëÊÓÆµ postdoctoral researcher, will deliver the Rose M. Litman Memorial Lecture in Science April 7.
  • dancers wearing black and yellow emulating bee movements
    Asia Kaiser, a bee researcher and ecology and evolutionary biology PhD candidate, is named social sciences category winner in the international Dance Your PhD contest sponsored by the journal Science.
  • two animated beavers from film Hoppers
    ÎÞÂëÊÓÆµ alumna Emily Fairfax shared her scientific expertise as the beaver consultant on the new Pixar film Hoppers.
  • people sitting at tables listening to speaker at brewpub
    The March 9 event at Rayback Collective in Boulder, open to all, invites scientists and non-scientists to gather for discussions of climate research.
  • painting of older Black man embracing younger Black man
    Multimedia Takin’ Up Space performance Feb. 21 at Fiske Planetarium will highlight historical, cultural, environmental and social justice narratives as an act of reclaiming Black spaces.
  • MacKenzie and Tanner Zurfluh in Fiske Planetarium
    For Fiske Planetarium off-site education lead and ÎÞÂëÊÓÆµ astrophysics alumna MacKenzie Zurfluh, the famed dome isn’t just where she works, but where she found love.
  • illuminated tent and campfire at sunset
    The world of campsite reservations is increasingly cutthroat, so why are so many campers not showing up? ÎÞÂëÊÓÆµ economist Jon Hughes applies numerical modeling to understand campground no-shows.
  • close-up of Wollemi pine tree branches
    ÎÞÂëÊÓÆµ alumni Judy and Rod McKeever donate a tree once considered extinct to the EBIO greenhouse, giving students a living example of modern conservation.
Subscribe to Rachel Sauer