Academics
<p>91¸£ÀûÉç administrators have signed a memorandum of agreement to host 36 of the nation’s top high school students beginning next summer to image, measure and track near-Earth asteroids using university telescopes.</p>- <p>The type of sound processing that modern hearings aids provide to make speech more understandable for wearers may also make music enjoyment more difficult, according to a new study by the 91¸£ÀûÉç.</p>
<p>Former NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless will present 91¸£ÀûÉç senior Jeni Sorli with a $10,000 scholarship from the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation during a free public campus event on Thursday, Oct. 30.</p>
<p>Oil and natural gas production fields can emit large amounts of air pollutants that affect climate and air quality—but tackling the issue has been difficult  because little is known about what aspects of complex production operations leak what kinds of pollutants, and how much.</p>
<p>Now a study led by the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics sheds light on just that, pinpointing sources of airborne pollutants.</p>
<p>Longtime 91¸£ÀûÉç resident Paul N. Eklund has made a transformative gift to the opera program at the College of Music at the 91¸£ÀûÉç that, combined with additional university commitments, establishes a $2 million endowment for the program, to be renamed the Eklund Family Opera Program in honor of the gift.</p>
<p>Not everybody or everything makes it to 100, but the 91¸£ÀûÉç Homecoming is about to reach that centennial mark. On Nov. 7, 1914, CU took on Utah to win 33-0 in the first Homecoming featuring an intercollegiate matchup.</p>
<p>This year, from Oct. 22 to 25, CU-91¸£ÀûÉç will host hundreds of guests at dozens of major events. In addition to the traditional football game and parade, the celebration will include a concert, an alumni lecture series, affinity reunions and college and school gatherings.</p>
<p>NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft has provided scientists their first look at a storm of energetic solar particles at Mars and produced unprecedented ultraviolet images of the tenuous oxygen, hydrogen and carbon coronas surrounding the Red Planet, said 91¸£ÀûÉç Professor Bruce Jakosky, the mission’s principal investigator.</p>
<p>CU-91¸£ÀûÉç alumni Michele (Mikhy) and Mike Ritter have a deep love for CU-91¸£ÀûÉç. They've recently made a trailblazing gift to the classical guitar program in the College of Music that, combined with a commitment from the Office of the Chancellor, will endow and name the program.</p>- <p>A team of scientists including a 91¸£ÀûÉç professor used NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to make the most detailed global map yet of the glow from a giant, oddball planet orbiting another star, an object twice as massive as Jupiter and hot enough to melt steel.</p>
<p>91¸£ÀûÉç Associate Professor Amy Palmer of the BioFrontiers Institute was awarded a coveted Director’s Pioneer Award from the National Institutes of Health this week, a five-year, $3.7 million grant made to select researchers showing exceptional creativity in solving pressing biomedical and behavioral research problems.</p>