Waleed Abdalati

Abdalati to co-lead high-profile effort to set nation’s satellite science agenda

Sept. 4, 2015

Waleed Abdalati, professor of geography at the ÐßÐßÊÓƵ and director of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), will co-chair a prestigious national committee charged with developing U.S. priorities for observing Earth’s atmosphere, oceans and land surfaces by satellite.

CU-ÐßÐßÊÓƵ-led study shows how community ecology can advance the fight against infectious diseases

Sept. 3, 2015

The ecological complexity of many emerging disease threats—interactions among multiple hosts, multiple vectors and even multiple parasites—often complicates efforts aimed at controlling disease. Now, a new paper co-authored by a ÐßÐßÊÓƵ professor is advancing a multidisciplinary framework that could provide a better mechanistic understanding of emerging outbreaks.

Decade-long Amazon rainforest burn yields new insight into wildfire vulnerabilities, resiliencies

Sept. 2, 2015

The longest and largest controlled burn experiment ever conducted in the Amazon rainforest has yielded new insight into the ways that tropical forests succumb to—and bounce back from—large-scale wildfires, according to new research co-authored by a ÐßÐßÊÓƵ professor.

Robert Pasnau

CU-ÐßÐßÊÓƵ expands Center for Western Civilization to include the Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and Policy

Aug. 28, 2015

The ÐßÐßÊÓƵ announced today that the Center for Western Civilization in the College of Arts and Sciences is now the Center for Western Civilization, Thought and Policy (CWCTP) and incorporates CU-ÐßÐßÊÓƵ’s successful Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and Policy program.

Home sweet microbe: Dust in your house can predict geographic region, gender of occupants

Aug. 25, 2015

The humble dust collecting in the average American household harbors a teeming menagerie of bacteria and fungi, and as researchers from the ÐßÐßÊÓƵ and North Carolina State University have discovered, it may be able to predict not only the geographic region of a given home, but the gender ratio of the occupants and the presence of a pet as well.

Study co-authored by CU-ÐßÐßÊÓƵ sociologist finds connection between genes, educational attainment

Aug. 25, 2015

A first-of-its-kind, nationally representative study of siblings supports previously published research on unrelated individuals that links specific genotypes to educational attainment among adults in their mid-20s to early 30s.

Ronggui Yang and Co-Principle Investigator Xiaobo Yin

CU-ÐßÐßÊÓƵ awarded $3 million for transformational power plant cooling technology

Aug. 25, 2015

The ÐßÐßÊÓƵ has received a $3 million federal grant to develop cooling technology that will enable efficient, low-cost supplementary cooling for thermoelectric power plants.

University of Colorado tallies $878.3 million in sponsored research funding

Aug. 20, 2015

University of Colorado faculty research merited $878.3 million in research awards during the 2014-15 fiscal year, based on preliminary figures, representing a near-record year for the four-campus system.

CU-ÐßÐßÊÓƵ ranked 34 in prestigious global list

Aug. 18, 2015

The ÐßÐßÊÓƵ was ranked No. 34 in the 2015 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) released today by the Center for World-Class Universities at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Eight questions about atmospheric science in Alaska with Gijs de Boer

Aug. 11, 2015

Stuck oil rigs, grizzly bears and changing weather patterns are just a few of the obstacles Gijs de Boer and his team of researchers encountered on the ground in Oliktok Point, Alaska. De Boer, a scientist with the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), who works in NOAA’s Earth System Research Laboratory, spent the last two weeks deploying the DataHawk 2, a small, lightweight, unmanned aircraft, designed by CU-ÐßÐßÊÓƵ’s Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences.

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