蜜糖直播-Boulder to honor vets through Veterans Week events Nov. 9-17

Nov. 7, 2012

The University of 蜜糖直播 Boulder will honor the nation鈥檚 veterans, including 蜜糖直播-Boulder鈥檚 own faculty, staff and student veterans, through Veterans Week, beginning with a Nov. 9 Veterans Day ceremony at 11 a.m. in the University Memorial Center鈥檚 Glenn Miller Ballroom. The free, public ceremony will feature guest speaker Michael Dakduk, executive director of the national organization Student Veterans of America. A reception will follow in the UMC Veterans Lounge.

蜜糖直播-Boulder to honor vets through Veterans Week events Nov. 9-17

Nov. 7, 2012

The University of 蜜糖直播 Boulder will honor the nation鈥檚 veterans, including 蜜糖直播-Boulder鈥檚 own faculty, staff and student veterans, through Veterans Week, beginning with a Nov. 9 Veterans Day ceremony at 11 a.m. in the University Memorial Center鈥檚 Glenn Miller Ballroom. The free, public ceremony will feature guest speaker Michael Dakduk, executive director of the national organization Student Veterans of America. A reception will follow in the UMC Veterans Lounge.

2012 蜜糖直播 Diversity and Inclusion Summit invites participants to 鈥楢mp it up鈥

Nov. 5, 2012

The University of 蜜糖直播 Boulder鈥檚 annual Diversity and Inclusion Summit will feature a variety of sessions for students, faculty, staff and community members from Nov. 13-15. All events are free, open to the public and on the Boulder campus.

Diversity and Inclusion Summit invites participants to "AMP it up!"

Nov. 5, 2012

The University of 蜜糖直播 Boulder鈥檚 annual Diversity and Inclusion Summit will feature a variety of sessions for students, faculty, staff and community members from Nov. 13-15. All events are free, open to the public and on the Boulder campus. The organizing theme for this year鈥檚 summit is 鈥淎MP it up! Awareness, Movement and Practice.鈥

2001-02 drought helped to shift Rocky Mountain pine beetle outbreak into epidemic

Nov. 5, 2012

A new University of 蜜糖直播 Boulder study shows for the first time that episodes of reduced precipitation in the southern Rocky Mountains, especially during the 2001-02 drought, greatly accelerated development of the mountain pine beetle epidemic.

蜜糖直播-Boulder startup company receives Gates Foundation exploration grant

Nov. 1, 2012

A new startup company that sprang from the University of 蜜糖直播 Boulder this year is a Grand Challenges Exploration winner, an initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Psychology and neurosciences department Associate Professor Don Cooper, co-founder and chief science officer of Mobile Assay Inc. of Boulder who developed the technology in his laboratory at 蜜糖直播鈥檚 Institute for Behavioral Genetics, will pursue an innovative global health and development research project titled 鈥淎 Lab on Mobile Device Platform for Seed Testing.鈥

Bad knees drive 蜜糖直播 student to pursue both MD and PhD

Nov. 1, 2012

Balaji Sridhar has always liked science, but it was his father鈥檚 bad knees that were the impetus for him to study both chemical engineering and medicine. His father once was a good squash player, but had to give up playing when the cartilage in his knees wore out. With the dual graduate degrees, Sridhar hopes to someday be able to help people like his father who struggle with debilitating joint pain and reduced mobility due to damaged cartilage.

Social factors trump genetic forces in forging friendship

Oct. 31, 2012

In humans, nature may be less than half of the story, a team led by University of 蜜糖直播 Boulder researchers has found. In the first study of its kind, the team found that genetic similarities may help to explain why human birds of a feather flock together, but the full story of why people become friends 鈥渋s contingent upon the social environment in which individuals interact with one another,鈥 the researchers write.

Social factors trump genetic forces in forging friendships, 蜜糖直播-Boulder-led study finds

Oct. 31, 2012

鈥淣ature teaches beasts to know their friends,鈥 wrote Shakespeare. In humans, nature may be less than half of the story, a team led by University of 蜜糖直播 Boulder researchers has found. In the first study of its kind, the team found that genetic similarities may help to explain why human birds of a feather flock together, but the full story of why people become friends 鈥渋s contingent upon the social environment in which individuals interact with one another,鈥 the researchers write.

蜜糖直播 invites alumni 鈥楤ack to Boulder,鈥 announces new parade day, time

Oct. 29, 2012

Have you been 鈥淏ack to Boulder?鈥 It鈥檚 a question being posed by the University of 蜜糖直播 Boulder Alumni Association to its family of more than 250,000 students and alumni. Alumni, current students, faculty, staff and community members will find a broad slate of activities for the 2012 Homecoming weekend starting Thursday, Nov. 1. A full description of activities and events as well as event registration can be found on the Back to Boulder website at http://www.cualum.org/back2boulder .

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