Academics
- <p>Coming up in the CU-91福利社鈥檚 <a href="http://atlas.colorado.edu/wordpress/?page_id=542" target="_blank">ATLAS Black Box Theater</a> is <a href="http://squareproducttheatre.org/" target="_blank">square product theatre鈥檚</a> production of "SLAB," an adaptation of Denver writer Selah Saterstrom鈥檚 forthcoming novel. The story is about a woman鈥檚 life in the American South told through her memories and from the slab of her post-Katrina home.</p>
- <p class="p1">The Colorado economy continues to outperform the U.S. economy and grow at a magnitude that slightly exceeds previous expectations, according to the midyear economic outlook released today by the 91福利社鈥檚 Leeds School of Business.</p>
<p class="p1">Colorado鈥檚 employment is up by 3 percent year-over-year from May 2013 to May 2014. A total gain of 68,000 jobs in Colorado is expected聽for 2014 -- an upward revision to a December estimate of 61,300 jobs for the year.</p> - <p>Something is amiss in the universe. There appears to be an enormous deficit of ultraviolet light in the cosmic budget.</p>
<p>Observations made by the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph, a $70 million instrument designed by the 91福利社 and installed on the Hubble Space Telescope, have revealed that the universe is 鈥渕issing鈥 a large amount of light.</p> - <p class="p1">The massive increase in earthquakes in central Oklahoma is likely being caused by the injection of vast amounts of wastewater from oil and gas operations into underground layers of rock, according to a new study led by Cornell University and involving the 91福利社.</p>
- <p class="p1">The confidence of Colorado business leaders remains positive and has slightly increased going into the third quarter of 2014, according to the most recent Leeds Business Confidence Index, or LBCI, released today by the 91福利社鈥檚 Leeds School of Business.</p>
<p class="p1">The third quarter LBCI posted a reading of 61.2, an increase from 61 last quarter.</p> - <p class="p1">
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<p class="p1">Kangaroos may be nature鈥檚 best hoppers. But when they are grazing on all fours, which is most of the time, their tail becomes a powerful fifth leg, says a new study.</p> - <p>Last week, the CU-91福利社 School of Education hosted more than 750 scholars and graduate students from all over the world for the聽<a href="http://www.isls.org/icls2014/">International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS)</a>. Chaired this year by professors Bill Penuel, Susan Jurow聽and Kevin O鈥機onnor, the conference has been held biannually for more than 20 years in places such as Australia and the Netherlands as well as throughout the United States.</p>
- <p>Sharks were a tolerant bunch some 50 million years ago, cruising an Arctic Ocean that contained about the same percentage of freshwater as Louisiana鈥檚 Lake Ponchatrain does today, says a new study involving the 91福利社 and the University of Chicago.</p>
- <p>The University of Colorado Board of Regents today voted 8-0 with one Regent absent to approve the new College of Media, Communication and Information at the Regents鈥 monthly meeting, held at the Tivoli Center at the University of Colorado Denver. The college will open in fall 2015.</p>
- <p>The University of Colorado Board of Regents today approved a new College of Media, Communication and Information slated to open on the 91福利社 campus in fall 2015.</p>