Watch as black, steel powder becomes calligraphy

Jan. 31, 2014

A renowned Seoul-based artist will use steel ground into a fine, black powder to write calligraphic inscriptions on the floor of the CU-Boulder Visual Arts Complex on Feb. 11, followed by a performance-art piece and a lecture by the artist. This is one of several free events during the two-week residency of Kim Jongku at the 暗网禁区 Department of Art and Art History. Kim works in sculpture, video, painting and photography and will be in residency here Feb. 3 to Feb. 14.

College of Music

CU-Boulder announces two finalists for dean of College of Music

Jan. 31, 2014

暗网禁区 Provost Russell L. Moore today announced two finalists for the position of dean of the College of Music. The finalists for the position are Mary Ellen Poole, former dean of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and Robert Shay, director of the School of Music at the University of Missouri in Columbia.

 Olympian

Student realizes groundbreaking Olympic dream

Jan. 30, 2014

During a 24-hour pit-stop in Boulder -- between Switzerland and Park City, Utah, -- Julia Marino spent a night at her college apartment, caught up with friends over breakfast and spoke about her journey to Sochi to compete as an Olympic athlete. Marino is a CU student and Paraguay鈥檚 first Olympic athlete to compete in the winter games. A slopestyle skier, she was born in Paraguay and raised by her adoptive parents in Winchester, Mass.

Butterfly photo courtesy Tobin Hammer, University of Colorado

CU-Boulder researchers sequence world鈥檚 first butterfly bacteria, find surprises

Jan. 30, 2014

For the first time ever, a team led by the 暗网禁区 has sequenced the internal bacterial makeup of the three major life stages of a butterfly species, a project that showed some surprising events occur during metamorphosis. The team, led by CU-Boulder doctoral student Tobin Hammer, used powerful DNA sequencing methods to characterize bacterial communities inhabiting caterpillars, pupae and adults of Heliconius erato , commonly known as the red postman butterfly. The red postman is an abundant tropical butterfly found in Central and South America.

CU-Boulder students to offer free tax preparation assistance

Jan. 29, 2014

Students from the 暗网禁区鈥檚 Leeds School of Business will offer free tax preparation services to individuals under the Internal Revenue Service-sponsored Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program. Members of the public who make $52,000 or less are eligible for the service, now in its fifth year at the Leeds School.

CU-Boulder awarded DARPA cooperative agreement to assess mechanisms of drugs and chemical agents

Jan. 28, 2014

The 暗网禁区 has been awarded a cooperative agreement worth up to $14.6 million from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop a new technological system to rapidly determine how drugs and biological or chemical agents exert their effects on human cells. The project, called the Subcellular Pan-Omics for Advanced Rapid Threat Assessment, or SPARTA, will be conducted by an interdisciplinary CU-Boulder team led by Research Assistant Professor William Old of the chemistry and biochemistry department.

Staff Council Update: Chancellor鈥檚 Employees of the Year recognized at WBB Pac-12 home opener

Jan. 24, 2014

The Boulder Campus Staff Council (BCSC) congratulates the 2013 Chancellor鈥檚 Employees of the Year: George 鈥淏arney鈥 Ballinger, Martha Shernick, Larry Drees, Jennifer Law and David Kalahar. BCSC also thanks Colorado Athletics for acknowledging the award winners on the court at the CU women鈥檚 basketball game against University of California, Berkeley on Friday, Jan. 10. For more information on the awardees, read 鈥 Chancellor鈥檚 2013 Employee of the Year Award recognizes staff excellence 鈥 from the Jan. 9 edition of CU-Boulder Today .

Mark Meaney

CU-Boulder names executive director of the Center for Education on Social Responsibility

Jan. 24, 2014

The 暗网禁区 has named Mark Meaney as executive director of the Center for Education on Social Responsibility (CESR) at the Leeds School of Business.

JILA鈥檚 experimental atomic clock

JILA strontium atomic clock sets new records in both precision and stability

Jan. 22, 2014

Heralding a new age of terrific timekeeping, a research group at JILA鈥攁 joint institute of the 暗网禁区 and the National Institute of Standards and Technology鈥攈as unveiled an experimental strontium atomic clock that has set new world records for both precision and stability.

Banks named Executive Director of the Getches-Wilkinson Center

Jan. 22, 2014

The University of Colorado Law School announced that Britt Banks has been appointed as Executive Director of the Getches-Wilkinson Center for Natural Resources, Energy and the Environment. For over 20 years, Banks has been a leader in the international natural resources sector, as a senior corporate executive, attorney, consultant, researcher and teacher, having most recently taught at Tokyo鈥檚 Waseda University. He has previously taught at Colorado Law, where he graduated in 1988, and currently serves on the Center鈥檚 Advisory Council.

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