Small Satellites Becoming Big Deal for CU-Boulder Students

On April 13, 2013 By

For some University of Colorado Boulder undergraduates, designing, building and flying small satellites is becoming a large part of their hands-on education. NASA recently selected CU-Boulder as one of 24 institutions or organizations to fly tiny satellites as auxiliary payloads aboard rockets planned for launch in 2014, 2015 and 2016. The selections are part of [...]

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Thin, low Arctic Clouds Played Important Role in the Massive 2012 Greenland Ice Melt

On April 5, 2013 By

Clouds over the central Greenland Ice Sheet last July were “just right” for driving surface temperatures there above the melting point, according to a new study by scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the universities of Wisconsin, Idaho and Colorado. The study, published today in Nature, found that thin, low-lying clouds allowed [...]

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CU Study Provides New Evidence Ancient Asteroid Caused Global Firestorm On Earth

On March 29, 2013 By

A new look at conditions after a Manhattan-sized asteroid slammed into a region of Mexico in the dinosaur days indicates the event could have triggered a global firestorm that would have burned every twig, bush and tree on Earth and led to the extinction of 80 percent of all Earth’s species, says a new University [...]

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Colorado State University Sustainability Fellow Named Emerging Policy Leader

On March 21, 2013 By

FORT COLLINS – The American Institute of Biological Sciences in Washington, D.C., has selected Colorado State University Ph.D. candidate Paul Tanger as one of two people nationally to receive the 2013 Public Policy Leadership Award. Paul Tanger is a 2012-2013 CSU Sustainability Leadership Fellow with the School of Global Environmental Sustainability, also known as SoGES, [...]

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CU-Boulder Graduate Programs Earn Top National Ratings

On March 14, 2013 By

DENVER – Graduate programs across the University of Colorado system continue to gain attention for excellence in the latest annual rankings from U.S. News & World Report. Research and teaching contributions by the four campuses in health care, engineering, law, education and business are well-represented in the 2014 edition of Best Graduate Schools (U.S. News [...]

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CU-Boulder Fundraising Leaders Fund $2 Million Jazz Studies Endowment

On March 6, 2013 By

Jeannie and Jack Thompson have made an unprecedented commitment to the Jazz Studies program at the University of Colorado Boulder — building $1.6 million in combined gifts to trigger a new $2 million program endowment. To honor and recognize this transformational gift, the program will be renamed the Thompson Jazz Studies Program, as announced at [...]

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CU-Boulder Effort Helps Former Students Complete Their Degrees

On February 27, 2013 By

When life’s complications get in the way of graduation, the University of Colorado Boulder offers CU Complete, an academic service designed to assist former CU-Boulder students in completing their bachelor’s degrees. Launched in 2009 by the CU-Boulder Division of Continuing Education, CU Complete provides academic, financial aid and career advising to support students in degree [...]

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University of Twente Donates Electron Accelerator to Colorado State University

On February 20, 2013 By

FORT COLLINS – The University of Twente in the Netherlands has donated a linear accelerator and peripheral materialsto Colorado State University to help enhance ongoing research collaborations with Professors Sandra Biedron and Stephen Milton in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. The accelerator arrived on campus in January. Biedron and Milton are working with [...]

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Southwest Regional Warming Likely Cause of Pinyon Pine Cone Decline, Says CU Study

On February 14, 2013 By

Creeping climate change in the Southwest appears to be having a negative effect on pinyon pine reproduction, a finding with implications for wildlife species sharing the same woodland ecosystems, says a University of Colorado Boulder-led study. The new study showed that pinyon pine seed cone production declined by an average of about 40 percent at [...]

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Human Bacteria Sequencing Pinvolving CU Raises $340,000 Online

On February 8, 2013 By

In hopes of better understanding nutrition and health, the University of Colorado Boulder is playing the leading science role in a “crowdfunding” effort that has raised more than $340,000 for a project designed to sequence the gut bacteria of thousands of people around the world. Known as the American Gut project, the effort raised the money through a crowdfunding effort [...]

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