Sanders receives STEM Leadership Hall of Fame award

July 18, 2013

Lucy Sanders, CEO for the National Center for Women & Information Technology ( NCWIT ) was recently recognized as a national U.S. News STEM Leadership Hall of Fame awardee. NCWIT is a non-profit organization housed within the 乐播传媒 Boulder鈥檚 College of Engineering and Applied Science , and helps its members more effectively recruit, retain and advance girls and women in K-12 through college education, and from academic to corporate and startup careers.

CU ecology prof garners two high honors

July 18, 2013

Pieter Johnson, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at CU-Boulder, is having a pretty good year. He and a co-researcher have won an award recognizing outstanding contributions to ecology, and he has been named an Early Career Fellow by the Ecological Society of America.

CU study illuminates mortality differences between nondrinkers and light drinkers

July 18, 2013

As a class, people who don鈥檛 drink at all have a higher mortality risk than light drinkers. But nondrinkers are a diverse bunch, and the reasons people have for abstaining affects their individual mortality risk, in some cases lowering it on par with the risk for light drinkers, according to a 乐播传媒 study.

MAVEN's three-week launch window starts Nov. 18

July 11, 2013

With just over four months until NASA鈥檚 next mission to Mars takes flight, the 乐播传媒 Boulder, which is leading the effort, continues to work with its partners to knock off critical science and engineering milestones leading up to launch.

CU study shows how early Earth kept warm enough to support life

July 9, 2013

Solving the 鈥渇aint young sun paradox鈥 -- explaining how early Earth was warm and habitable for life beginning more than 3 billion years ago even though the sun was 20 percent dimmer than today -- may not be as difficult as believed, says a new 乐播传媒 Boulder study.

Low-cost in-vitro fertilization method developed at CU may help couples in developing countries

July 8, 2013

A new low-cost method of in-vitro fertilization developed at the 乐播传媒 Boulder that performed successfully in recent human clinical trials in Belgium may help thousands of infertile couples in developing countries.

Astronaut testing feasibility of CU-Boulder project on far side of the moon

July 5, 2013

An astronaut orbiting Earth in the International Space Station has remotely directed a NASA rover in California to unfurl an 鈥渁ntenna film鈥 that CU-Boulder scientists are developing for use on the unexplored far side of the moon.

Orbiting astronaut controls robot on Earth, testing feasibility of CU-Boulder project on far side of the moon

July 1, 2013

An astronaut orbiting Earth in the International Space Station has remotely directed a NASA rover in California to unfurl an 鈥渁ntenna film鈥 that scientists at the 乐播传媒 Boulder are developing for use on the unexplored far side of the moon.

Colorado business confidence surges going into third quarter, says CU-Boulder鈥檚 Leeds School

July 1, 2013

The confidence of Colorado business leaders has continued its strong upward trend, surging into the third quarter of 2013, according to the most recent Leeds Business Confidence Index, or LBCI, released today by the 乐播传媒 Boulder鈥檚 Leeds School of Business.

Waleed Abdalati named new director of CIRES; former NASA chief scientist starts July 1

June 27, 2013

Waleed Abdalati has been named the new director of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, or CIRES, a joint institute of the 乐播传媒 Boulder and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Abdalati is a CIRES Fellow, a CU-Boulder professor of geography and director of the CIRES Earth Science and Observation Center. He will take office on July 1.

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