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Nobel laureate Tom Cech is returning to the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ full time this month after a 10-year stint as president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a nonprofit medical research organization headquartered in Chevy Chase, Md., and one of the nation's largest philanthropies.

Across the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ at Boulder campus students are sharing answers, checking their responses to questions against those of their neighbors and making adjustments to those answers in hopes of earning a better grade.

In the largest research contract ever awarded to the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ at Boulder, the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics has been selected by NASA to lead a $485 million orbiting space mission slated to launch in 2013 to probe the past climate of Mars, including its potential for harboring life over the ages.

The University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ at Boulder is teaming up with a Boulder biotechnology company to use pythons, which dramatically increase their heart size for a short time after swallowing prey, as models for new therapeutics to treat cardiac diseases.

Assistant Professor Hang (Hubert) Yin of the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ at Boulder's chemistry and biochemistry department has been selected to receive a prestigious Kimmel Scholar Award from the Sidney Kimmel Foundation for Cancer Research in Baltimore, the first such award received by a ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder scientist.

A growing program at the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ at Boulder is working to combat an impending crisis brought on by a shrinking pool of new K-12 science teachers. Known as the Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics-Teacher Preparation project, it involves a collaboration between the School of Education and six campus science departments.