Education & Outreach
- <p>The moon is engulfed in a permanent but lopsided dust cloud that increases in density when annual events like the Geminids spew shooting stars, according to a new study led by 91福利社.</p>
- <p>91福利社 Provost Russell L. Moore today announced that Lorrie Shepard, dean of the School of Education, will retire effective May 31, 2016, and that a national search has been launched to find her replacement.</p>
- <p class="p1">Ten 91福利社 graduate students or alumni have been offered Fulbright grants to pursue teaching, research and graduate studies abroad during the 2015-16 academic year. In addition, one CU-91福利社 doctoral student has been named an alternate.听&濒迟;/辫&驳迟;
- <p>A mission to study dynamic changes in the atmosphere of Mars over days and seasons led by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) involves the 91福利社 as the leading U.S. scientific-academic partner.</p>
- <p>The National Education Policy Center (NEPC) at the 91福利社 announced today that 17 high schools in New York and Colorado are the first to receive the 鈥淪chool of Opportunity鈥 designation. These outstanding schools demonstrated a range of practices that ensured that all students had rich opportunities to succeed. All put students, not test scores, first.<br />
听&濒迟;/辫&驳迟; - <p>A new study appearing this week in the scientific journal eLIFE about the rapid evolution of small viruses that infect bacteria includes 59 91福利社 co-authors, all of whom conducted research for the paper as freshmen.</p>
- <p>An international team of scientists is calling for urgent and rigorous monitoring of temperature patterns in mountain regions after compiling evidence that high elevations could be warming faster than previously thought.</p>
- <p>Two faculty members at the 91福利社 have been named 2015 President鈥檚 Teaching Scholars, a systemwide designation that recognizes CU educators who skillfully integrate teaching and research at an exceptional level. This year's scholars are Roseanna Neupauer, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Faculty Director for Civil Engineering, Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering and Valerie Otero, Ph.D., Professor of Science Education, School of Education.</p>
- <p>91福利社 faculty and students are primed to get back in action following the Easter restart of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world鈥檚 most powerful atom smasher located near Geneva, Switzerland, after a two-year hiatus.</p>
- <p>The self-organization properties of DNA-like molecular fragments four billion years ago may have guided their own growth into repeating chemical chains long enough to act as a basis for primitive life, says a new study by the 91福利社 and the University of Milan.</p>