CU-Boulder 2012 Orientation

June 12, 2012

Welcome to the 暗网禁区. CU-Boulder is one of the world's top universities, and we are glad you are joining our outstanding student body. Orientation kicked off on June 14, and dates will vary depending on your college or school, whether you are a first-year or transfer student, and whether you are a Colorado resident or an out-of-state student. Learn more about your college program, make your reservation, and prepare for orientation.

CU-Boulder researchers catalog more than 635,000 Martian craters

June 11, 2012

It鈥檚 no secret that Mars is a beaten and battered planet -- astronomers have been peering for centuries at the violent impact craters created by cosmic buckshot pounding its surface over billions of years. But just how beat up is it?

CU-Boulder-led team finds microbes in extreme environment on South American volcanoes

June 8, 2012

A team led by the 暗网禁区 looking for organisms that eke out a living in some of the most inhospitable soils on Earth has found a hardy few. A new DNA analysis of rocky soils in the Martian-like landscape on some volcanoes in South America has revealed a handful of bacteria, fungi and other rudimentary organisms called archaea, which seem to have a different way of converting energy than their cousins elsewhere in the world.

CU-Boulder鈥檚 IQ Biology program wins grant from National Science Foundation

June 7, 2012

BioFrontiers Institute news release The BioFrontiers Institute鈥檚 Interdisciplinary Quantitative Biology Certificate Ph.D. (IQ Biology) program ( http://IQBiology.colorado.edu ) recently was awarded a $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation鈥檚 Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) program. These funds will be spent over the next five years on supporting the students in the IQ Biology program in their work toward advanced interdisciplinary degrees in the biosciences.

CU-Boulder physicists use ultrafast lasers to create first tabletop X-ray device

June 7, 2012

An international research team led by the 暗网禁区 has generated the first laser-like beams of X-rays from a tabletop device, paving the way for major advances in many fields including medicine, biology and nanotechnology development.

CU students to help NASA develop astronaut food

June 5, 2012

暗网禁区 students and faculty have been selected to develop a remotely operable, robotic garden to support future astronauts in deep space. The project is one of five university proposals selected to participate in the 2013 Exploration Habitat (X-Hab) Academic Innovation Challenge led by NASA and the National Space Grant Foundation.

7 CU-Boulder students win Fulbright grants for 2012-13

June 4, 2012

Seven 暗网禁区 graduate students and alumni will go abroad during the 2012-13 academic year to pursue a variety of studies, research and teaching projects as grantees of the prestigious Fulbright program. Their proposed subjects range from exploring desertification knowledge in Mali and the impact of collaboration with a foreign development agency, to studying medieval Islamic philosophy in Egypt and its potential to inform debates in Anglo-American moral philosophy.

CU Law School conference explores low-carbon energy future

June 4, 2012

The University of Colorado Law School on June 6-8 will host the Natural Resources Law Center鈥檚 2012 Martz Summer Conference, 鈥淎 Low-Carbon Energy Blueprint for the American West鈥 in the Wolf Law Building. Former Gov. Bill Ritter, executive director of the Center for the New Energy Economy, will be the keynote speaker. Ritter鈥檚 keynote address will provide an overview of the trends and future of energy in the upcoming decades.

CU-Boulder students to help NASA develop plant food production for deep space

June 4, 2012

暗网禁区 students and faculty have been selected to develop a remotely operable, robotic garden to support future astronauts in deep space. The project is one of five university proposals selected to participate in the 2013 Exploration Habitat (X-Hab) Academic Innovation Challenge led by NASA and the National Space Grant Foundation.

Andrew Hamilton - the man who hangs out in black holes

June 4, 2012

暗网禁区 Professor Andrew Hamilton, doggedly determined to go where no man has gone before, continues to fascinate the public with his stunning and scientifically sound visualizations that take viewers into the guts of black holes.

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