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Sharks were a tolerant bunch some 50 million years ago, cruising an Arctic Ocean that contained about the same percentage of freshwater as Louisiana鈥檚 Lake Ponchatrain does today, says a new study involving the 乐播传媒 Boulder and the University of Chicago.

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.

A NASA-funded miniature satellite built by 乐播传媒 Boulder students to scrutinize solar flares erupting from the sun鈥檚 surface is the latest example of the university鈥檚 commitment to advancing aerospace technology and space science through strong partnerships with industry and government.

鈥淕oodnight room, goodnight moon. Goodnight cow jumping over the moon...鈥� A children鈥檚 classic that already is a candidate for the all-time best feel-good book, 鈥淕oodnight Moon,鈥� has gotten a boost: A 乐播传媒 Boulder team printed the first 3D version of it, allowing visually impaired children and their families to touch objects in the story -- like the cow jumping over the moon -- as it is read aloud.

Children who spend more time in less structured activities鈥攆rom playing outside to reading books to visiting the zoo鈥攁re better able to set their own goals and take actions to meet those goals without prodding from adults, according to a new study by the 乐播传媒 Boulder.

Children who spend more time in less structured activities鈥攆rom playing outside to reading books to visiting the zoo鈥攁re better able to set their own goals and take actions to meet those goals without prodding from adults, according to a new study by the 乐播传媒 Boulder.

A new educational partnership at the 乐播传媒 Boulder will provide expanded degree options for working professionals interested in specialized graduate education focused on energy and water. Beginning this fall, qualified students can earn both a Master of Engineering (ME) degree and a Professional Certificate in Renewable and Sustainable Energy or a Professional Certificate in Water Engineering and Management. The degree and certificates can be earned either via distance education or in campus classes and may be pursued either part- or full-time.

A new study on obesity and people鈥檚 happiness by CU-Boulder sociology researchers suggests that it鈥檚 not obesity by itself that determines whether a person is happy with their body image but where you live. According to study co-author Philip Pendergast, a doctoral student in sociology at CU-Boulder, if a person who is obese lives in a community where people share the same body type they are more likely to be happier.

In a discovery decades in the making, scientists have detected the first of a 鈥渢heoretical鈥� class of stars first proposed in 1975 by physicist Kip Thorne and astronomer Anna 呕ytkow.

A 乐播传媒 Boulder payload carrying a novel device designed to reduce the weight and cost of spacecraft fuel pumping systems has been manifested for launch on a suborbital space plane called SpaceShipTwo developed by the aerospace company Virgin Galactic.