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A new report led by the 乐播传媒 Boulder, 鈥淐onsiderations for Climate Change and Variability Adaptation on the Navajo Nation,鈥� synthesizes state-of-the-science information on the region鈥檚 climate, water cycle and ecology. And it goes much further, discussing social, legal, economic, infrastructural and other factors that affect people鈥檚 vulnerabilities to climate impacts as well as their adaptive capacity, and outlining one approach for how the region鈥檚 residents might plan for ongoing environmental change.

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.

A NASA spacecraft studying the moon鈥檚 atmosphere and dust environment, which is carrying a $6 million 乐播传媒 Boulder instrument, is slated to crash into the lunar surface April 21 following a successful 130-day mission.

A free, downloadable guide for individuals who want to collect baseline data on their well water quality and monitor their groundwater quantity over time was released this week by the 乐播传媒 Boulder鈥檚 Colorado Water and Energy Research Center (CWERC).

Three 乐播传媒 Boulder undergraduates have been awarded prestigious Goldwater Scholarships for 2014. The scholarships, which are worth up to $7,500 each, are awarded annually to sophomores and juniors across the nation on the basis of high academic merit. The 2014 winners from CU-Boulder are Jasmine Brewer, a junior in engineering physics, Brennan Coffey, a junior in chemical engineering and applied mathematics, and Ryan Dewey, a junior in astrophysics and physics.

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.

Sandra Q. Firmin, curator of UB Art Galleries at SUNY Buffalo, has been named the director of the 乐播传媒 Boulder Art Museum. Firmin will begin as director on April 21, replacing interim director Stephen Martonis.

It took 48 games for the first and second rounds of the 64-team NCAA men鈥檚 basketball tournament to be decided, and millions of fans are deliriously awaiting the Sweet 16 to commence later this week.

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.