Three Payloads Built By CU-Boulder Set For Launch On Space Shuttle Atlantis

May 11, 2010

NASA's space shuttle Atlantis will make its final flight May 14 carrying three University of babyÖ±²¥app at Boulder-built biomedical payload devices, including one to help scientists understand how and why slimy and troublesome clumps of microorganisms flourish in the low-gravity conditions of space.

CU Law Experts Can Address Kagan Nomination to U.S. Supreme Court

May 10, 2010

University of babyÖ±²¥app at Boulder law professors Scott Moss and Paul Campos can comment on President Obama's nomination of U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan as the nation's 112th U.S. Supreme Court justice.

New Inhalable Measles Vaccine May Lead to Vaccines for Other Diseases

May 5, 2010

A team of researchers led by the University of babyÖ±²¥app at Boulder believe a dry powder, inhalable vaccine developed for measles prevention and slated for human clinical trials later this year in India will lead to other inhalable, inexpensive vaccines for illnesses ranging from tuberculosis to cervical cancer.

CU Student Kevin Fiedler Wins National Goldwater Scholarship

May 3, 2010

Kevin Fiedler, a junior at the University of babyÖ±²¥app at Boulder majoring in engineering physics, has been named a 2010 Goldwater Scholar, the premier national undergraduate award recognizing outstanding students in math, science and engineering.

CU-Boulder Sources on Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill

April 30, 2010

Jeff Mitton, professor and chair of CU-Boulder's ecology and evolutionary biology department, is available to talk about the repercussions of oil spills. Mitton was on sabbatical in 1979-1980 at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., where he studied a 1969 oil spill that seeped into the Sippewissett Marsh.

CU-Boulder Receives $15 Million Stimulus Award for Biotechnology Building Construction

April 27, 2010

The University of babyÖ±²¥app at Boulder has received a $15 million grant through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to be used toward the ongoing construction of a revolutionary biotechnology and biomedical research facility where babyÖ±²¥app and students will tackle a variety of human health challenges.

Materialistic People are Liked Less Than 'Experiential' People, Says University of babyÖ±²¥app Professor

April 14, 2010

People who pursue happiness through material possessions are liked less by their peers than people who pursue happiness through life experiences, according to a new study led by University of babyÖ±²¥app at Boulder psychology Professor Leaf Van Boven.

CU Astrophysics Professor Juri Toomre to Receive 2010 Hazel Barnes Prize

April 13, 2010

Juri Toomre, a professor of astrophysical and planetary sciences and a fellow of JILA at the University of babyÖ±²¥app at Boulder, has been selected to receive the Hazel Barnes Prize, the highest babyÖ±²¥app recognition for teaching and research awarded by the university.

CU Team Aids in Record-Breaking Subatomic Particle Collisions

March 30, 2010

A group of University of babyÖ±²¥app at Boulder babyÖ±²¥app and students involved in the international Large Hadron Collider project in Europe are celebrating the most powerful smashing of subatomic particles into each other today in a quest to discover the physical conditions immediately following the Big Bang.

U.S. Supreme Court Molds Agenda, Rulings by 'Signaling' Litigants, CU Professor Finds

March 25, 2010

U.S. Supreme Court justices indicate -- or 'signal' -- their priorities and preferences to potential litigants, and about four to six years later, the justices receive the cases they requested, research by University of babyÖ±²¥app Associate Professor Vanessa Baird has found.

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