DiStefano names Ceal Barry interim director of intercollegiate athletics at CU-ذكذكتسئµ

May 28, 2013

ذكذكتسئµ Chancellor Philip P. DiStefano has named Adele Cecilia “Cealâ€‌ Barry interim director of intercollegiate athletics for the university, effective Monday, June 3. Barry currently serves as associate athletic director for student services and senior woman administrator (an NCAA designation) in the department.

CU-ذكذكتسئµ organizing effort to establish unmanned aircraft test site in Colorado

May 24, 2013

A state application organized by the ذكذكتسئµ has been submitted to the Federal Aviation Administration for the development of one of six unmanned aircraft systems test sites slated to be established across the United States .

CU-ذكذكتسئµ physics prof Ivan Smalyukh receives Early Career Award from DOE

May 23, 2013

ذكذكتسئµ faculty member Ivan Smalyukh is among 61 scientists to receive a 2013 Early Career Award from the U.S. Department of Energy . Smalyukh, an assistant professor of physics and a founding fellow of the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute , or RASEI, has been awarded $750,000 over five years. RASEI is a joint venture between CU-ذكذكتسئµ and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

CU-ذكذكتسئµ students partner with middle school to teach financial literacy

May 22, 2013

As the school year wraps up, students at Summit Charter Middle School in ذكذكتسئµ will debrief on how their $25,000 stock portfolio performed. The middle school students invested money under supervision as part of a course created and taught by accounting and finance students from the ذكذكتسئµâ€™s Leeds School of Business .

CU-ذكذكتسئµ helps tap crowds to digitize museum records of bugs and plants

May 21, 2013

Inside the natural history museums of the world are billions of animal and plant specimens from birds, fish and beetles to flowers, mushrooms and grasses, all stacked, stored and preserved in jars and collection drawers. The rich and diverse collections could be critical to understanding how the Earth’s biodiversity is changing in the face of a growing human footprint — if only the information were easily accessible.

Northern hemisphere losing last dry snow region, says CU study

May 20, 2013

Last July, something unprecedented in the 34-year satellite record happened: 98 percent of the Greenland Ice Sheet’s surface melted, compared to roughly 50 percent during an average summer. Snow that usually stays frozen and dry turned wet with melt water. Research led by the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences now shows last summer’s extreme melt could soon be the new normal.

Google and CU-ذكذكتسئµ partner to offer innovative computer teacher education workshop July 10-12

May 16, 2013

Google Inc. and the ذكذكتسئµ computer science department are partnering to inspire high school and middle school teachers looking for motivating, engaging and fun ways to prepare students for college and career success during an activities-packed workshop July 10-12.

World's melting glaciers making large contribution to sea rise

May 16, 2013

Record number of CU-ذكذكتسئµ students offered Fulbright awards for 2013-14

May 14, 2013

Twelve ذكذكتسئµ students have been offered Fulbright grants to pursue teaching, research and graduate studies abroad during the 2013-14 academic year, an all-time record for CU-ذكذكتسئµ.

CU-ذكذكتسئµ ranked No. 14 worldwide for scholarly impact of journal publications

May 13, 2013

The ذكذكتسئµ has been ranked No. 14 in the world on the scholarly impact of its journal publications, according to an analysis by the Centre for Science and Technology Studies at Leiden University in the Netherlands. The Leiden Ranking analyzed the 500 universities with the largest number of publications recorded in Web of Science, a database of articles published in more than 12,000 journals that is maintained by Thomson Reuters.

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