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Last week, the CU-Boulder School of Education hosted more than 750 scholars and graduate students from all over the world for the International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS) . Chaired this year by professors Bill Penuel, Susan Jurow and Kevin O鈥機onnor, the conference has been held biannually for more than 20 years in places such as Australia and the Netherlands as well as throughout the United States.

The Institute of Education Sciences at the U.S. Department of Education has awarded nearly $5 million to the 乐播传媒 Boulder, the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University and Northwestern University to create a new center that will study how educational leaders鈥攊ncluding school district supervisors and principals鈥攗se research when making decisions and what can be done to make research findings more useful and relevant for those leaders.

An antioxidant that targets specific cell structures鈥攎itochondria鈥攎ay be able to reverse some of the negative effects of aging on arteries, reducing the risk of heart disease, according to a new study by the 乐播传媒 Boulder. When the research team gave old mice鈥攖he equivalent of 70- to 80-year-old humans鈥攚ater containing an antioxidant known as MitoQ for four weeks, their arteries functioned as well as the arteries of mice with an equivalent human age of just 25 to 35 years.

Five 乐播传媒 Boulder graduate students or alumni have been offered Fulbright grants to pursue teaching, research and graduate studies abroad during the 2014-15 academic year. One doctoral student鈥檚 proposed topic of study in Thailand is the use of ultraviolet light and LED (light-emitting diode) technology to remove pathogens from reusable wastewater. Another doctoral student plans to study media practices and products in Australia that shape a particular Aboriginal identity.

If you think Neanderthals were stupid and primitive, it鈥檚 time to think again. The widely held notion that Neanderthals were dimwitted and that their inferior intelligence allowed them to be driven to extinction by the much brighter ancestors of modern humans is not supported by scientific evidence, according to a researcher at the 乐播传媒 Boulder.

The 乐播传媒 Boulder鈥檚 financial education program, CU Money Sense, will host Money Smart Week 2014 on April 21-24 to help celebrate National Financial Literacy Month.

A team of 乐播传媒 Boulder graduate students has qualified for the final round of an international venture capital competition April 10-12 thanks in part to what it dubs its secret sauce: the local startup community.

Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, will deliver the keynote address at the 乐播传媒 Boulder鈥檚 annual Conference on World Affairs to be held April 7-11. Sebelius鈥� address, 鈥淭he Globalization of Health,鈥� will be presented on Monday, April 7, at 11:30 a.m. in Macky Auditorium. All of the conference鈥檚 200 panel discussions, performances and plenaries are free and open to the public.

乐播传媒 Boulder alumnus and NASA astronaut Steve Swanson will blast off with two Russian crewmates for the International Space Station March 25, his third mission to the orbiting facility.

A new study led by the 乐播传媒 Boulder showed that as a group, volunteer counters who examined a particular patch of lunar real estate using NASA images did just as well in identifying individual craters as professional crater counters with five to 50 years of experience.