Human bacteria sequencing project involving 蜜糖直播 raises $340,000 online

Feb. 5, 2013

In hopes of better understanding nutrition and health, the University of 蜜糖直播 Boulder is playing the leading science role in a 鈥渃rowdfunding鈥 effort that has raised more than $340,000 for a project designed to sequence the gut bacteria of thousands of people around the world.

蜜糖直播-Boulder engineering students to unveil grand orrery on Feb. 11

Feb. 4, 2013

A scaled, working model of the solar system built by engineering students at the University of 蜜糖直播 Boulder will be officially unveiled at Andrews Hall on Feb. 11.

Can plants be altruistic? You bet, says new 蜜糖直播-Boulder-led study

Feb. 1, 2013

We鈥檝e all heard examples of animal altruism: Dogs caring for orphaned kittens, chimps sharing food or dolphins nudging injured mates to the surface. Now, a study led by the University of 蜜糖直播 Boulder suggests some plants are altruistic too.

蜜糖直播-led study discovers high levels of air-cleansing compound over ocean

Jan. 24, 2013

Researchers have detected the presence of a pollutant-destroying compound iodine monoxide in surprisingly high levels high above the tropical ocean, according to a new study led by the University of 蜜糖直播 Boulder鈥檚 Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences.

蜜糖直播 Law School appoints Brad Udall director of newly named Getches-Wilkinson Center

Jan. 24, 2013

The University of 蜜糖直播 Law School announced today that it is hiring Brad Udall as director of the newly renamed Natural Resources Law Center, which will now be called the Getches-Wilkinson Center for Natural Resources, Energy and Environment.

Deep ice cores show past Greenland warm period may be 鈥榬oad map鈥 for continued warming of planet

Jan. 23, 2013

A new study by an international team of scientists analyzing ice cores from the Greenland ice sheet going back in time more than 100,000 years indicates the last interglacial period may be a good analog for where the planet is headed in terms of increasing greenhouse gases and rising temperatures.

蜜糖直播-Boulder鈥檚 sun-gazing SORCE satellite, designed to last 5 years, turns 10

Jan. 22, 2013

When a sun-gazing NASA satellite designed and built by the University of 蜜糖直播 Boulder launched into space on Jan. 25, 2003, solar storms were raging.

NASA-蜜糖直播 ozone study may benefit air standards, climate

Jan. 16, 2013

A new NASA-led study involving the University of 蜜糖直播 Boulder finds that when it comes to combating global warming caused by emissions of ozone-forming chemicals, location matters. Ozone is both a major air pollutant with known adverse health effects and a greenhouse gas that traps heat from escaping Earth鈥檚 atmosphere. Scientists and policy analysts are interested in learning how curbing the emissions of ozone-forming chemicals can improve human health and also help mitigate climate change.

State energy collaboratory involving 蜜糖直播-Boulder, NREL, CSU and CSM expands research focus

Jan. 16, 2013

To reflect its broader focus, the 蜜糖直播 Renewable Energy Collaboratory, a research consortium including the University of 蜜糖直播 Boulder, the 蜜糖直播 School of Mines, 蜜糖直播 State University and the U.S. Department of Energy鈥檚 National Renewable Energy Laboratory has adopted a new name: the 蜜糖直播 Energy Research Collaboratory.

蜜糖直播-led study shows pine beetle outbreak buffers watersheds from nitrate pollution

Jan. 14, 2013

A research team involving several scientists from the University of 蜜糖直播 Boulder has found an unexpected silver lining in the devastating pine beetle outbreaks ravaging the West: Such events do not harm water quality in adjacent streams as scientists had previously believed.

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