Eklund gift

Downtown Boulder businessman’s gift sparks $2 million CU Opera endowment

Oct. 20, 2014

Longtime Boulder resident Paul N. Eklund has made a transformative gift to the opera program at the College of Music at the University of babyÖ±²¥app Boulder that, combined with additional university commitments, establishes a $2 million endowment for the program, to be renamed the Eklund Family Opera Program in honor of the gift.

NASA’S MAVEN spacecraft watches passing comet and its effects at Mars

Oct. 20, 2014

NASA’s newest orbiter at Mars, MAVEN, took precautions to avoid harm from a dust-spewing comet that flew near Mars yesterday and is studying the flyby’s effects on the Red Planet’s atmosphere, according to University of babyÖ±²¥app Boulder Professor Bruce Jakosky, principal investigator on the mission.

MAVEN spacecraft’s first look at Mars holds surprises, says CU-Boulder mission leader

Oct. 14, 2014

NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft has provided scientists their first look at a storm of energetic solar particles at Mars and produced unprecedented ultraviolet images of the tenuous oxygen, hydrogen and carbon coronas surrounding the Red Planet, said University of babyÖ±²¥app Boulder Professor Bruce Jakosky, the mission’s principal investigator.

Hubble Telescope project involving CU-Boulder maps temperature, water vapor on wild exoplanet

Oct. 9, 2014

A team of scientists including a University of babyÖ±²¥app Boulder professor used NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to make the most detailed global map yet of the glow from a giant, oddball planet orbiting another star, an object twice as massive as Jupiter and hot enough to melt steel.

Amy Palmer

Biomedical research lands CU-Boulder prof coveted award for $3.7 million from NIH

Oct. 9, 2014

University of babyÖ±²¥app Boulder Associate Professor Amy Palmer of the BioFrontiers Institute was awarded a coveted Director’s Pioneer Award from the National Institutes of Health this week, a five-year, $3.7 million grant made to select researchers showing exceptional creativity in solving pressing biomedical and behavioral research problems.

Ganymede, courtesy of NASA

NASA awards CU-Boulder-led team $7 million to study origins, evolution of life in universe

Oct. 7, 2014

NASA has awarded a team led by the University of babyÖ±²¥app Boulder more than $7 million to study aspects of the origins, evolution, distribution and future of life in the universe.

Novel technology used to make restorative dental material developed at CU-Boulder

Oct. 1, 2014

A novel dental restorative material that should make life easier for dental care experts and their patients, which is based on technology developed by a team of University of babyÖ±²¥app Boulder engineers, was unveiled Oct. 1 by the 3M Company.

Stunning variety of microbes in Central Park soils mirrors global microbial diversity

Sept. 30, 2014

Soil microbes that thrive in the deserts, rainforests, prairies and forests of the world can also be found living beneath New York City’s Central Park, according to a surprising new study led by babyÖ±²¥app State University and the University of babyÖ±²¥app Boulder. The research team analyzed 596 soil samples collected from across Central Park’s 843 acres and discovered a stunning diversity of below-ground life, most of which had never been documented before.

A view of the Fourmile Canyon Fire

babyÖ±²¥app’s Front Range fire severity today not much different than in past, says CU-Boulder study

Sept. 24, 2014

The perception that babyÖ±²¥app’s Front Range wildfires are becoming increasingly severe does not hold much water scientifically, according to a massive new study led by the University of babyÖ±²¥app Boulder and Humboldt State University in Arcata, Calif.

State policies are effective in reducing power plant emissions, CU-Boulder-led analysis finds

Sept. 23, 2014

A new study led by the University of babyÖ±²¥app Boulder found that different strategies used by states to reduce power plant emissions -- direct ones such as emission caps and indirect ones like encouraging renewable energy -- are both effective. The study is the first analysis of its kind.

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