ΊωΒ«ΝήΚΣΖ΅ cancels fireworks show due to high fire risk

June 27, 2012

City of ΊωΒ«ΝήΚΣΖ΅ news release ΊωΒ«ΝήΚΣΖ΅ city officials today announced that the annual Ralphie’s Independence Day Blast is canceled due to extremely dry conditions in and around ΊωΒ«ΝήΚΣΖ΅. The fireworks show had been scheduled for Folsom Field on Wednesday, July 4.

Ancient human ancestor had unique diet, according to study involving CU

June 27, 2012

When it came to eating, an upright, 2 million-year-old African hominid had a diet unlike virtually all other known human ancestors, says a study led by the Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany and involving the ΊωΒ«ΝήΚΣΖ΅.

Condor lead poisoning persists, impeding recovery, says CU-UCSC study

June 25, 2012

The California condor is chronically endangered by lead exposure from ammunition and requires ongoing human intervention for population stability and growth, according to a new study led by the University of California, Santa Cruz, and involving the ΊωΒ«ΝήΚΣΖ΅.

Celebrity endorsements not always a good bet, CU-ΊωΒ«ΝήΚΣΖ΅ study shows

June 20, 2012

Companies paying celebrities big money to endorse their products may not realize that negative perceptions about a celebrity are more likely to transfer to an endorsed brand than are positive ones, according to a new ΊωΒ«ΝήΚΣΖ΅ study. Celebrity endorsements are widely used to increase brand visibility and connect brands with celebrities’ personality traits, but do not always work in the positive manner marketers envision, according to Margaret C. Campbell of CU-ΊωΒ«ΝήΚΣơ’s Leeds School of Business, who led the study.

Normal bacterial makeup of the body has huge implications for health, says CU-ΊωΒ«ΝήΚΣΖ΅ professor

June 13, 2012

For the first time, a consortium of researchers organized by the National Institutes of Health, including a ΊωΒ«ΝήΚΣΖ΅ professor, has mapped the normal microbial makeup of healthy humans.

CU-ΊωΒ«ΝήΚΣΖ΅ researchers catalog more than 635,000 Martian craters

June 11, 2012

It’s no secret that Mars is a beaten and battered planet -- astronomers have been peering for centuries at the violent impact craters created by cosmic buckshot pounding its surface over billions of years. But just how beat up is it?

CU students to help NASA develop astronaut food

June 5, 2012

ΊωΒ«ΝήΚΣΖ΅ students and faculty have been selected to develop a remotely operable, robotic garden to support future astronauts in deep space. The project is one of five university proposals selected to participate in the 2013 Exploration Habitat (X-Hab) Academic Innovation Challenge led by NASA and the National Space Grant Foundation.

7 CU-ΊωΒ«ΝήΚΣΖ΅ students win Fulbright grants for 2012-13

June 4, 2012

Seven ΊωΒ«ΝήΚΣΖ΅ graduate students and alumni will go abroad during the 2012-13 academic year to pursue a variety of studies, research and teaching projects as grantees of the prestigious Fulbright program. Their proposed subjects range from exploring desertification knowledge in Mali and the impact of collaboration with a foreign development agency, to studying medieval Islamic philosophy in Egypt and its potential to inform debates in Anglo-American moral philosophy.

CU Law School conference explores low-carbon energy future

June 4, 2012

The University of Colorado Law School on June 6-8 will host the Natural Resources Law Center’s 2012 Martz Summer Conference, β€œA Low-Carbon Energy Blueprint for the American West” in the Wolf Law Building. Former Gov. Bill Ritter, executive director of the Center for the New Energy Economy, will be the keynote speaker. Ritter’s keynote address will provide an overview of the trends and future of energy in the upcoming decades.

CU-ΊωΒ«ΝήΚΣΖ΅ students to help NASA develop plant food production for deep space

June 4, 2012

ΊωΒ«ΝήΚΣΖ΅ students and faculty have been selected to develop a remotely operable, robotic garden to support future astronauts in deep space. The project is one of five university proposals selected to participate in the 2013 Exploration Habitat (X-Hab) Academic Innovation Challenge led by NASA and the National Space Grant Foundation.

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