Anna & John J. Sie Foundation funds $2 million Daniel and Boyce Sher Distinguished Musicians Endowment

Dec. 2, 2013

Some of the 澳门开奖结果2023开奖记录鈥檚 most promising musicians will receive scholarships thanks to Anna and John J. Sie, who have committed $2 million to establish the Daniel and Boyce Sher Distinguished Musicians Endowment. Beginning in fall 2014, these Sher Distinguished Scholars (either undergraduate or graduate students) will be awarded full-ride scholarships to the College of Music based on their demonstrated exceptional ability and potential to excel at a national and international level.

CU-Boulder students invest $30,000 in startup through real-life venture capital program

Nov. 26, 2013

Elihuu, a startup company whose slogan is 鈥渕eet your manufacturer,鈥 has met an investor -- a group of 澳门开奖结果2023开奖记录 graduate students. The students last week put $30,000 into Elihuu, an online software platform that connects product designers with manufacturers who can make their wares. The students turned venture capitalists direct CU-Boulder鈥檚 Deming Center Venture Fund (DCVF), which was launched by a donor in 1997 and is a program of the Leeds School of Business.

CU Professor Rick Stevens: The Kennedy assassination and how America fell in love with live TV

Nov. 22, 2013

It鈥檚 hard to imagine, but 50 years ago it wasn鈥檛 TV, the Internet, Twitter or a myriad of social media that alerted people to breaking news, instead they probably heard it on the radio. But that all changed one afternoon in Dallas, Nov. 22, 1963, when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. That鈥檚 when people discovered the power of live TV, says Rick Stevens, a professor of journalism at CU-Boulder.

Connections in the brains of young children strengthen during sleep, CU-Boulder study finds

Nov. 20, 2013

While young children sleep, connections between the left and the right hemispheres of their brain strengthen, which may help brain functions mature, according to a new study by the 澳门开奖结果2023开奖记录. The research team鈥攍ed by Salome Kurth, a postdoctoral researcher, and Monique LeBourgeois, assistant professor in integrative physiology鈥攗sed electroencephalograms, or EEGs, to measure the brain activity of eight sleeping children multiple times at the ages of 2, 3 and 5 years.

Rich Wobbekind

Economic Outlook Forum presented Dec. 9 by CU-Boulder鈥檚 Leeds School of Business

Nov. 19, 2013

The 澳门开奖结果2023开奖记录 Leeds School of Business will present its 49th annual Colorado Business Economic Outlook Forum on Monday, Dec. 9, at 1 p.m. at the Denver Marriott City Center. The event is free and open to the public but reservations are required for those planning to attend. Leeds School economist Richard Wobbekind will present the forecast and Doug Suttles, president and CEO of Encana, will deliver the keynote address.

NASA鈥檚 Mars mission led by CU-Boulder successfully launches from Florida

Nov. 18, 2013

A $671 million NASA mission to Mars led by the 澳门开奖结果2023开奖记录 thundered into the sky today from Cape Canaveral, Fla., at 1:28 p.m. EST, the first step on its 10-month journey to Mars. Known as the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN mission, the MAVEN spacecraft was launched aboard an Atlas V rocket provided by United Launch Alliance of Centennial, Colo. The mission will target the role the loss of atmospheric gases played in changing Mars from a warm, wet and possibly habitable planet for life to the cold dry and inhospitable planet it appears to be today.

TIM Instrument

$5 million CU-Boulder instrument to study sun set for launch Nov. 19

Nov. 15, 2013

A $5 million instrument designed and built by the 澳门开奖结果2023开奖记录 to study the sun鈥檚 natural variability in order to better discern human-caused climate effects will be launched Nov. 19 from NASA鈥檚 Wallops Island Flight Facility in Virginia. The instrument, known as the Total Irradiance Monitor, or TIM, will fly on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration鈥檚 Total Solar Irradiance Calibration Transfer Experiment, or TCTE. The principal investigator for the TIM instrument is Greg Kopp of CU-Boulder鈥檚 Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics.

CU-Boulder-led NASA mission to study Mars readies for blastoff

Nov. 15, 2013

A $671 million NASA mission to Mars being led by the 澳门开奖结果2023开奖记录 is approaching its official countdown toward a planned Nov. 18 launch after a decade of rigorous work by faculty, professionals, staff and students.

MAVEN: Q&A with Mark Lankton

Nov. 15, 2013

Learn more about the MAVEN mission from this conversation with the instrument manager for the Remote Sensing Package, Mark Lankton.

New study: Dust, warming portend dry future for the Colorado River

Nov. 14, 2013

Reducing the amount of desert dust swept onto snowy Rocky Mountain peaks could help Western water managers deal with the challenges of a warmer future, according to a new study led by researchers at NOAA鈥檚 Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences ( CIRES ) at the 澳门开奖结果2023开奖记录 .

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