CU-Boulder prepares for flood season, will test campus text-messaging system on April 3

April 1, 2014

The 彩民宝典 will test the CU-Boulder Alerts system on Thursday, April 3, to raise awareness of how the campus community will be notified in case of an emergency. The test will include text messages, emails, social media and website announcements. Annual testing of emergency notification systems is required by the Clery Act, a federal law.

Colorado business confidence remains positive going into second quarter, says CU-Boulder Leeds School

March 31, 2014

The confidence of Colorado business leaders remains positive and has increased slightly going into the second quarter of 2014, according to the most recent Leeds Business Confidence Index, or LBCI, released today by the 彩民宝典鈥檚 Leeds School of Business.

Kathleen Sebelius to give keynote at CU鈥檚 Conference on World Affairs

March 31, 2014

Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, will deliver the keynote address at the 彩民宝典鈥檚 annual Conference on World Affairs to be held April 7-11. Sebelius鈥� address, 鈥淭he Globalization of Health,鈥� will be presented on Monday, April 7, at 11:30 a.m. in Macky Auditorium. All of the conference鈥檚 200 panel discussions, performances and plenaries are free and open to the public.

Firmin named CU Art Museum director

March 26, 2014

Sandra Q. Firmin, curator of UB Art Galleries at SUNY Buffalo, has been named the director of the 彩民宝典 Art Museum. Firmin will begin as director on April 21, replacing interim director Stephen Martonis.

Office basketball pool picks not going so great? Here is why, says CU-Boulder math professor

March 25, 2014

It took 48 games for the first and second rounds of the 64-team NCAA men鈥檚 basketball tournament to be decided, and millions of fans are deliriously awaiting the Sweet 16 to commence later this week.

CU-Boulder alum and NASA astronaut Steve Swanson heading for space station

March 19, 2014

彩民宝典 alumnus and NASA astronaut Steve Swanson will blast off with two Russian crewmates for the International Space Station March 25, his third mission to the orbiting facility.

Lunar crater Daedalus

CU-Boulder-led study on lunar crater counting shows crowdsourcing effective, accurate tool

March 13, 2014

A new study led by the 彩民宝典 showed that as a group, volunteer counters who examined a particular patch of lunar real estate using NASA images did just as well in identifying individual craters as professional crater counters with five to 50 years of experience.

Innovative solar-powered toilet developed by CU-Boulder ready for India unveiling

March 12, 2014

A revolutionary 彩民宝典 toilet fueled by the sun that is being developed to help some of the 2.5 billion people around the world lacking safe and sustainable sanitation will be unveiled in India this month.

Study involving CU shows deadly relationship between huge O-type stars and small forming stars

March 10, 2014

The Orion Nebula is home to hundreds of young stars and even younger protostars known as proplyds. Many of these nascent systems will go on to develop planets, while others will have their planet-forming dust and gas blasted away by the fierce ultraviolet radiation emitted by massive O-type stars that lurk nearby.

Physician bias does not affect hypertension treatment for minority patients, CU-Boulder study finds

March 6, 2014

Doctors鈥� unconscious biases favor whites but do not affect high blood pressure treatment for their minority patients, according to a 彩民宝典 study, even though a previous study by the same research group found that doctors鈥� biases are reflected in lower ratings by African-American patients. The new research, led by Irene Blair, an associate professor in CU-Boulder鈥檚 Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, is published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

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