Stressed watersheds

Today鈥檚 worst watershed stresses may become the new normal, study finds

Sept. 18, 2013

Nearly one in 10 U.S. watersheds is 鈥渟tressed,鈥� with demand for water exceeding natural supply, according to a new analysis of surface water in the United States. What鈥檚 more, the lowest water flow seasons of recent years鈥攖imes of great stress on rivers, streams, and sectors that use their waters鈥攁re likely to become typical as climates continue to warm.

CU-Boulder offers flood resources website

Sept. 17, 2013

The University of Colorado Boulder has launched a flood resource website and is hosting a resource table to help students, faculty and staff who are still dealing with effects from the flood.

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Nanoly Bioscience to develop CU-Boulder vaccine stabilization technology

Sept. 11, 2013

Nanoly Bioscience of Boulder and the University of Colorado recently entered into an option agreement that will enable the startup company to develop a technique for protecting vaccines during delivery to rural and less-developed areas of the world.

Microgravity experiments

CU-Boulder student-built satellite slated for launch by NASA Sept. 15

Sept. 11, 2013

A small beach ball-sized satellite designed and built by a team of University of Colorado Boulder students to better understand how atmospheric drag can affect satellite orbits is now slated for launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Sept. 15.

Caroline Himes

CU-Boulder announces new Office of Industry Collaboration

Sept. 5, 2013

The University of Colorado Boulder today announced the opening of an Office of Industry Collaboration and the naming of Caroline Himes as director.

Ability to delay gratification may be linked to social trust, new CU-Boulder study finds

Sept. 4, 2013

A person鈥檚 ability to delay gratification鈥攆orgoing a smaller reward now for a larger reward in the future鈥攎ay depend on how trustworthy the person perceives the reward-giver to be, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Rare western bumblebees netted on Colorado鈥檚 Front Range during CU-Boulder survey

Sept. 3, 2013

A white-rumped bumblebee that has been in steep decline across its native range in the western United States and Canada appears to be making a comeback on the Colorado Front Range. A survey of bumblebee populations carried out largely by University of Colorado Boulder undergraduates in undisturbed patches of prairieland and in mountain meadows above campus has turned up more than 20 rare western bumblebees, known scientifically as Bombus occidentalis.

Soot suspect in mid-1800s Alps glacier retreat

Sept. 3, 2013

Scientists have uncovered strong evidence that soot, or black carbon, sent into the air by a rapidly industrializing Europe, likely caused the abrupt retreat of mountain glaciers in the European Alps.

$6 million CU-Boulder instrument to fly on Sept. 6 NASA mission to moon

Aug. 29, 2013

A $6 million University of Colorado Boulder instrument designed to study the behavior of lunar dust will be riding on a NASA mission to the moon now slated for launch on Friday, Sept. 6, from the agency鈥檚 Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

Search committee for CU-Boulder College of Music dean announced

Aug. 28, 2013

University of Colorado Boulder Provost Russell L. Moore today announced the formation of a search committee to lead a national search for a new dean of the College of Music. John Stevenson, dean of the Graduate School, will chair the committee.

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