CU-ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ physics professor awarded Packard Fellowship

Oct. 14, 2011

Cindy Regal, a ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ assistant professor of physics and associate fellow of JILA, has been awarded a prestigious David and Lucile Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering.

New technologies challenge old ideas about early hominid diets

Oct. 13, 2011

ENew assessments by researchers using the latest high-tech tools to study the diets of early hominids are challenging long-held assumptions about what our ancestors ate, says a study by the ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ and the University of Arkansas.

Author John McPhee to receive Stegner Award from CU's Center of the American West on Oct. 27

Oct. 12, 2011

John McPhee, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Encounters With the Archdruid" and "Coming Into the Country," will receive the Wallace Stegner Award from the ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ's Center of the American West on Oct. 27.

Worms among first animals to surface after K-T boundary extinction event, CU-led study finds

Oct. 10, 2011

A new study of sediments laid down shortly after an asteroid plowed into the Gulf of Mexico 65.5 million years ago, an event that is linked to widespread global extinctions including the demise of big dinosaurs, suggests that lowly worms may have been the first fauna to show themselves following the global catastrophe.

Planetary scientists spread word, images of new discoveries in Spanish

Oct. 6, 2011

A group of planetary scientists have released a new Spanish-language teaching resource featuring colorful graphics and explanatory text to get the word out on the latest space discoveries both in and outside of Earth's solar system.

When it comes to charitable giving, people respond to their immediate emotions, CU study says

Oct. 4, 2011

When considering giving money to humanitarian crises people often donate in response to events that grab their immediate emotions, according to a recent study by researchers at the ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ and Dresden University of Technology in Germany.

Colorado business leaders' economic outlook turns negative, says CU Leeds School Index

Oct. 3, 2011

Colorado business leaders' outlook on the economy has turned negative heading into the fourth quarter, according to the most recent quarterly Leeds Business Confidence Index, or LBCI, released today by the ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ Leeds School of Business.

NSF awards $4.5 million to CU-ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ-led team to study electrical processes in Earth's atmosphere

Sept. 30, 2011

The National Science Foundation has awarded a five-year, $4.5 million grant to a team led by the ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ to better understand the electrical processes that connect the Earth with the atmosphere and with space.

CU-ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ wins bid to host National Solar Observatory headquarters

Sept. 30, 2011

The ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ was selected today to host the headquarters for the National Solar Observatory, the nation's leading scientific research program in ground-based solar astronomy.

CU-developed Android app helps people tweet during disasters

Sept. 28, 2011

Just as codes once were developed for public safety communication via citizens band radios, a common language now is being formulated for disaster communication via Twitter -- posing a challenge for people who haven't yet learned or can't recall it.

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