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JILA, a joint institute of the ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ and the National Institute of Standards and Technology that has produced three Nobel Prize winners since 2001, has opened a new wing with advanced laboratories for its world-renowned science.

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

College In Colorado news release DENVER - The University of Colorado has teamed up with Denver-based Crowley Foundation to bring 38 high school students from seven Metro Denver high schools to the CU-ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ campus on April 6 as part of College Friday.

A new study led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst and involving the ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ 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.

ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ 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.

A web-based science instruction program designed by researchers at the ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ 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.

Colorado 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 ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ’s Leeds School of Business.

ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ 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.

With many employers using social media and conducting Google searches as part of their employee screening process, creating a positive and professional online presence can go a long way in helping students land a job out of school. However, simply building a professional online appearance is not the only thing students should worry about. Minimizing a negative online presence can be just as important. Minimizing a negative online presence

Ten high school students from Denver, Thornton and Lyons are likely in for an experience of a lifetime when a ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ law professor takes them to Washington, D.C., for a moot court competition March 29-April 1. While there, they also will meet with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and tour the Supreme Court, meet with U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette of Colorado and tour the Capitol, in addition to visiting several national monuments and museums.