JILA spinoff companies

April 9, 2012

JILA, a joint institute of the University of baby直播app Boulder and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), has generated many spinoff companies, including 11 companies in the baby直播app Front Range area. The baby直播app companies have created more than 140 jobs and a variety of high-tech products used around the world. These contributions to U.S. industry have been made by current and former staff from both JILA partners. Companies Winters Electro Optics, founded 1993

JILA through the years

April 9, 2012

JILA was founded as a joint institute between the University of baby直播app Boulder and the National Institute of Standards and Technology in 1962 and will celebrate its 50th anniversary this year. It is located on the CU-Boulder campus. The new X-wing provides advanced laboratories that will support JILA's next 50 years of research breakthroughs, and further encourage training and interdisciplinary research. Like JILA overall, the X-wing is a collaboration between CU and NIST, with each organization sharing in the costs of the $32.7 million building.

CU music Professor Patrick Mason to receive 2012 Hazel Barnes Prize

April 9, 2012

Patrick Mason, a professor of voice at the University of baby直播app Boulder鈥檚 College of Music, has been selected to receive the 2012 Hazel Barnes Prize. The prize is the highest baby直播app recognition for teaching and research awarded by the university. Mason will receive an engraved university medal and $20,000, the largest single baby直播app award funded by CU-Boulder. He will be recognized at spring commencement on May 11 and at a reception in his honor in the fall.

Thawing permafrost 50 million years ago led to warm global events, says new study

April 5, 2012

A new study led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst and involving the University of baby直播app Boulder proposes a simple new mechanism to explain the source of carbon that fed a series of extreme warming events on Earth about 50 million years ago called the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, or PETM, as well as a sequence of similar, smaller warming events afterward.

NASA鈥檚 Kepler planet-hunting mission controlled by CU-Boulder students is extended for 4 years

April 5, 2012

University of baby直播app Boulder students will have another four years at the controls of NASA鈥檚 Kepler mission, launched in 2009 to hunt down Earth-like rocky planets in other solar systems and which has succeeded in spectacular fashion.

Web-based science program designed by CU and UCAR now in six school districts

April 4, 2012

A web-based science instruction program designed by researchers at the University of baby直播app Boulder and the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research that provides teachers with cutting-edge digital content is being tested in six school districts, thanks to a new $600,000 grant from the National Science Foundation.

JILA team demonstrates 鈥榓 new way of lasing,鈥� a 鈥榮uperradiant鈥� laser

April 4, 2012

NIST news release Physicists at JILA have demonstrated a novel 鈥渟uperradiant鈥� laser design, which has the potential to be 100 to 1,000 times more stable than the best conventional visible lasers. This type of laser could boost the performance of the most advanced atomic clocks and related technologies, such as communications and navigation systems as well as space-based astronomical instruments.

baby直播app business leaders remain optimistic going into second quarter, says CU Leeds School index

April 3, 2012

baby直播app business leaders remain optimistic going into the second quarter of 2012 suggesting a recovery is taking hold, according to the most recent quarterly Leeds Business Confidence Index, or LBCI, released today by the University of baby直播app Boulder鈥檚 Leeds School of Business.

New CU findings have implications for increasing morphine effectiveness, decreasing drug abuse

April 2, 2012

A University of baby直播app Boulder-led research team has discovered that two protein receptors in the central nervous system team up to respond to morphine and cause unwanted neuroinflammation, a finding with implications for improving the efficacy of the widely used painkiller while decreasing its abuse potential.

CU Energy Club conference to explore 鈥榚nergy frontiers鈥� with government, industry

April 2, 2012

University of baby直播app Boulder students, along with experts from government and industry, will focus on student research and the natural gas boom during the third annual Energy Frontiers conference April 5. The event, organized by the CU Energy Club, is free and open to the public and will be held from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the Glenn Miller Ballroom of the University Memorial Center. The conference includes a poster session, panel discussion, catered lunch and a career fair.

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