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Between classes or running to work and realizing you just don’t have time to eat? We’ve all grabbed the snack bar instead. But with so many options—Luna, Clif, a classic Snickers—which bar is the best for you and your budget? This month in Student Health 101 online magazine, we’re comparing all the classics to see how each one measures up. Check it out and find your new go-to.

°µÍø½ûÇø Associate Professor Amy Palmer of the BioFrontiers Institute was awarded a coveted Director’s Pioneer Award from the National Institutes of Health this week, a five-year, $3.7 million grant made to select researchers showing exceptional creativity in solving pressing biomedical and behavioral research problems.

°µÍø½ûÇø Libraries is celebrating the launch of the open access repository CU Scholar, housed online at scholar.colorado.edu . This new institutional repository will aggregate and disseminate the wealth of scholarly knowledge created under the auspices of the °µÍø½ûÇø and its research units. CU Scholar welcomes materials of scholarly focus, including published journal articles, working papers, technical reports, multimedia content and datasets.

NASA has awarded a team led by the °µÍø½ûÇø more than $7 million to study aspects of the origins, evolution, distribution and future of life in the universe.

Past research shows physical beauty can be detrimental to women applying for masculine jobs. But belles can put the brakes on discrimination by acknowledging their looks during an interview, according to a new study led by the °µÍø½ûÇø. The paper, published in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes , is the first to provide a method for curtailing such prejudice against attractive women.

This year’s renovation of the Student Recreation Center has allowed CU-Boulder staff to transform creative ideas into new projects. The Wellness Suite and Adventure Planning Center are among those new programs at the center offering a slew of new services.

We sat down with Chancellor Philip P. DiStefano to talk about his sixth State of the Campus Address, which will be held on Tuesday, Oct. 14, in Grusin Auditorium in the Imig Music Building. Doors open at 7:30 a.m. and the speech begins at 8 a.m.

CU-Boulder is launching a new Massive Open Online Course, or MOOC, today about the many different microbial species that inhabit the human gut and how they may influence health and disease. The free course, titled G ut Check: Exploring Your Microbiome , is being offered through CU-Boulder and Coursera, and will be taught by CU-Boulder Associate Professor Rob Knight, Senior Research Associate Jessica Metcalf and Research Associate Katherine Amato, all of CU-Boulder’s BioFrontiers Institute.

Four °µÍø½ûÇø faculty and staff have received Fulbright Scholar grants to pursue research, teaching and training abroad during the 2014-15 academic year.

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