Solar flair

1967 solar storm nearly took US to brink of war

Aug. 9, 2016

A solar storm that jammed radar and radio communications at the height of the Cold War could have led to a disastrous military conflict if not for the U.S. Air Force’s budding efforts to monitor the sun’s activity, a new study finds.

Bart Foster and Wil Srubar look through a pair of eyeglass lenses with graduate research assistants Sankar Ravichandran and Elizabeth Delesky standing behind them.

Partnership 'looks into' creating new material from eyeglass lens waste

Aug. 4, 2016

Through ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ·'s Office of Industry Collaboration, entrepreneur Bart Foster has teamed up with members of the campus community to look into an optical solution, how to recycle the byproduct of eyeglass lenses. Made out of three or more types of plastic, currently several tons of the material are dumped into landfills each year.

Aerial photo of Camp Century in Greenland from 1959

Melting ice sheet could release frozen Cold War-era waste

Aug. 4, 2016

Climate change could remobilize abandoned hazardous waste thought to be buried forever beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet, new research finds.

Snow covered landscape

Earlier snowmelt reduces forests’ ability to regulate atmospheric carbon, decreases streamflow volume

Aug. 3, 2016

Earlier snowmelt periods associated with a warming climate may hinder subalpine forest regulation of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), according to the results of a new University of Colorado Boulder study. The findings, which were recently published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters , predict that this shift in the timing...

Jay McMahon

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's an asteroid named after a ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· prof

Aug. 1, 2016

Nearly 750,000 asteroids and comets have been discovered in the solar system, but most are known only by relatively bland numerical designations. This is not the case for the asteroid formerly known as 1998 OS14. The rocky binary asteroids orbiting the sun are now officially dubbed (46829) McMahon after ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· Professor Jay McMahon.

$1 million gift to BioFrontiers Institute to aid graduate students

July 29, 2016

The University of Colorado’s BioFrontiers Institute has received a $1 million gift from John F. Milligan and Kathryn Bradford-Milligan of Hillsborough, California to establish a fund for graduate students participating in an interdisciplinary bioscience program.

Electrical student working on project

ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ·-CMU add civil engineering to partnership

July 19, 2016

Colorado Mesa University and ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· announced the expansion of their engineering program partnership to allow students to earn a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· by taking classes delivered at Colorado Mesa.

SpaceX Dragon capsule.

Hardware developed by CU-Boulder launched by SpaceX rocket

July 18, 2016

High-tech space hardware designed and built at ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· for biomedical experiments was successfully launched aboard the commercial SpaceX Dragon capsule to the International Space Station (ISS) July 18.

Pre-collegiate Program event

Diversity, learning and student success shine in summer pre-collegiate programs

July 18, 2016

No summer slowdown exists for the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Community Engagement (ODECE). In partnership with academic departments across campus, ODECE hosts more than 1,500 middle and high school students, and soon-to-be freshmen in a variety of summer pre-collegiate programming.

Rich Wobbekind

State economy in mostly positive territory, as expected

July 15, 2016

The Colorado economy continues to expand, outperforming the U.S. economy, according to a midyear economic update released July 15 by the Leeds School's Business Research Division (BRD). Employment in the state was up by 2.4 percent in May 2016. A total gain of 62,000 jobs in Colorado is expected for 2016, nearly reaffirming the estimate given in December at the BRD's 51st annual Business Economic Outlook Forum .

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