JILA spinoff companies

April 9, 2012

JILA, a joint institute of the University of babyÖ±²¥app Boulder and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), has generated many spinoff companies, including 11 companies in the babyÖ±²¥app Front Range area. The babyÖ±²¥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

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 babyÖ±²¥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’s Kepler planet-hunting mission controlled by CU-Boulder students is extended for 4 years

April 5, 2012

University of babyÖ±²¥app Boulder students will have another four years at the controls of NASA’s 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 babyÖ±²¥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.

babyÖ±²¥app business leaders remain optimistic going into second quarter, says CU Leeds School index

April 3, 2012

babyÖ±²¥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 babyÖ±²¥app Boulder’s Leeds School of Business.

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

April 2, 2012

A University of babyÖ±²¥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 ‘energy frontiers’ with government, industry

April 2, 2012

University of babyÖ±²¥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.

Warm winters mean more pine beetles, tree damage

March 27, 2012

Some populations of mountain pine beetles now produce two generations of tree-killing offspring annually, dramatically increasing the potential for bugs to kill lodgepole and ponderosa pine trees, CU-Boulder researchers have found. Because of the extra annual generation of beetles, there could be up to 60 times as many beetles attacking trees in any given year, the study found. And in response to warmer temperatures at high elevations, pine beetles also are better able to survive and attack trees that haven't previously developed defenses.

CU students’ work makes it to the big screen

March 23, 2012

The work of a talented group of University of babyÖ±²¥app Boulder students and staff has made it to the big screen. The really big screen -- in fact, a more than 20-meter dome.

Two CU-Boulder babyÖ±²¥app members recognized as exceptional educators

March 22, 2012

CU System news release Two University of babyÖ±²¥app professors who have skillfully integrated teaching and research at a high level throughout their careers at CU-Boulder have been designated as 2012 President’s Teaching Scholars.

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