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The chair of the °µÍø½ûÇø history department today won the Pulitzer Prize for history for her book Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People . Associate Professor Elizabeth Fenn said she first learned of the prize when she received an email from a New York Times reporter. A short while later, she received official notification from her editor. In the meantime, her phone started ringing and people started showing up at her office door.

Two faculty members at the °µÍø½ûÇø have been named 2015 President’s Teaching Scholars, a systemwide designation that recognizes CU educators who skillfully integrate teaching and research at an exceptional level. This year's scholars are Roseanna Neupauer, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Faculty Director for Civil Engineering, Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering and Valerie Otero, Ph.D., Professor of Science Education, School of Education.

The Offices of the Vice Chancellor for Research and the Dean of the Graduate School are pleased to extend congratulations to the three winners of the 2015 Distinguished Research Lecturer. The Lectureship is among the highest honors bestowed by the faculty on a fellow faculty member at CU-Boulder. This year's winners are Zoya Popovic from the Department of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, Diane McKnight from the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research and Douglas Seals from the Department of Integrative Physiology.

A °µÍø½ûÇø and North Carolina State University-led team has produced the first atlas of airborne microbes across the continental U.S., a feat that has implications for better understanding health and disease in humans, animals and crops.

Celebrating 'College Friday,' 23 students from Denver and Aurora High schools visited CU-Boulder for a campus tour and to learn about leadership. The event, sponsored by the Crowle y Foundation and hosted by ODECE , served to expose youth interested in higher education to campus opportunities.

By the CUSG Freshman Council The time has come to redefine CU-Boulder. Beginning with Be Boulder. Week, we would like to reintroduce you to The °µÍø½ûÇø, a university of excellence.

An experiment led by the °µÍø½ûÇø arrived at the International Space Station today and will look into the fluid dynamics of liquid crystals that may lead to benefits both on Earth and in space.

Finals are on the horizon—how are you preparing? Get the most from your studying techniques and test-taking strategies with this month’s issue of Student Health 101 . Check out the short-term fixes and long-term solutions in our guide to managing your time and maximizing results.

When he was a child, Siddhesh Naik’s mother colored his imagination with ancient myths about Roman eponyms of the sky. Those fascinations remained with him through childhood and ultimately led him to CU-Boulder to study aerospace engineering as a graduate student.

NASA’s MESSENGER mission to Mercury carrying an $8.7 million °µÍø½ûÇø instrument is slated to run out of fuel and crash into the planet in the coming days after a wildly successful, four-year orbiting mission chock full of discoveries.