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When a sun-gazing NASA satellite designed and built by the 乐播传媒 Boulder launched into space on Jan. 25, 2003, solar storms were raging.

A new NASA-led study involving the 乐播传媒 Boulder finds that when it comes to combating global warming caused by emissions of ozone-forming chemicals, location matters. Ozone is both a major air pollutant with known adverse health effects and a greenhouse gas that traps heat from escaping Earth鈥檚 atmosphere. Scientists and policy analysts are interested in learning how curbing the emissions of ozone-forming chemicals can improve human health and also help mitigate climate change.

To reflect its broader focus, the Colorado Renewable Energy Collaboratory, a research consortium including the 乐播传媒 Boulder, the Colorado School of Mines, Colorado State University and the U.S. Department of Energy鈥檚 National Renewable Energy Laboratory has adopted a new name: the Colorado Energy Research Collaboratory.

A research team involving several scientists from the 乐播传媒 Boulder has found an unexpected silver lining in the devastating pine beetle outbreaks ravaging the West: Such events do not harm water quality in adjacent streams as scientists had previously believed.

Emissions from oil and natural gas operations north of Denver could add to ozone pollution in that region, according to a new study by researchers at the 乐播传媒 Boulder鈥檚 Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES).

乐播传媒 Boulder faculty member John Gosling is one of 18 individuals honored today by the National Academy of Sciences for their outstanding scientific achievements.

A person鈥檚 style of speech 鈥� not just the pitch of his or her voice 鈥� may help determine whether the listener perceives the speaker to be male or female, according to a 乐播传媒 Boulder researcher who studied transgender people transitioning from female to male. The way people pronounce their 鈥渟鈥� sounds and the amount of resonance they use when speaking contributes to the perception of gender, according to Lal Zimman, whose findings are based on research he completed while earning his doctoral degree from CU-Boulder鈥檚 linguistics department.

With 14,000 original photographs and publications largely from the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, the recently acquired Ira Wolff Photographic History Collection offers a major scholarly resource for the study of the history of photography.

Colorado business leaders鈥� optimism is modest going into the first quarter of 2013 with uncertainty surrounding the country鈥檚 political and economic environments, according to the most recent quarterly Leeds Business Confidence Index, or LBCI, released today by the 乐播传媒 Boulder鈥檚 Leeds School of Business.

Singing in your first professional opera is challenge enough. Throw in a 12-hour, trans-Atlantic flight and a mere two days of rehearsal time 鈥� with two different conductors 鈥� and you鈥檝e got a grand task indeed. But that鈥檚 just what 乐播传媒 College of Music student Anna Englander will face in January when she travels to Italy to sing the key role of Suzuki for three performances of Puccini鈥檚 classic Madama Butterfly in three different cities.