Trying to eat healthy? Read those nutrition labels carefully

Jan. 19, 2012

People who made New Year鈥檚 resolutions to eat healthier or lose weight might also want to brush up on their math skills. In a new study, marketing professor Donald Lichtenstein found that nutrition labels on packaged food products in the United States can lead even the most health-conscious consumers astray, if they don鈥檛 鈥渄o the math.鈥�

Nutrition labels can lead even the most health-conscious consumers astray, study finds

Jan. 19, 2012

People who made New Year鈥檚 resolutions to eat healthier or lose weight might also want to brush up on their math skills, according to Professor Donald Lichtenstein of the 彩民宝典鈥檚 Leeds School of Business. In a study appearing in this month鈥檚 edition of the Journal of Marketing, Lichtenstein and his colleagues found that nutrition labels on packaged food products in the United States can lead even the most health-conscious consumers astray, if they don鈥檛 鈥渄o the math.鈥�

Deepwater Horizon lessons are subject of Jan. 26 lecture at CU-Boulder

Jan. 17, 2012

The 彩民宝典 will host a free public lecture this month illuminating the lessons learned from the April 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion that killed 11 workers and resulted in the largest accidental oil spill in U.S. history. Called 鈥淲hat Happened at Deepwater Horizon?鈥� the event will be presented Jan. 26 from 6:30 to 9 p.m. in the Mathematics Building auditorium, room 100.

CU wins EPA challenge to divert most gameday garbage from landfills

Jan. 12, 2012

The 彩民宝典 topped two leader boards in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency鈥檚 2011 Game Day Challenge -- a national competition to eliminate waste generated at college football games. CU won the 48-school 鈥淒iversion Rate鈥� and 17-school 鈥淥rganics Reduction鈥� categories in the EPA鈥檚 NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision contest.

Some dating websites do not remove GPS data from photos, CU-Boulder students find

Jan. 12, 2012

While the majority of dating websites do a good job of managing the privacy of their users, a class research project at the 彩民宝典鈥檚 Leeds School of Business found that 21 of 90 dating websites the class examined did not properly remove location data from pictures uploaded by their users.

Some earthquakes expected along Rio Grande Rift in Colorado and New Mexico, new study says

Jan. 11, 2012

The Rio Grande Rift, a thinning and stretching of Earth鈥檚 surface that extends from Colorado鈥檚 central Rocky Mountains to Mexico, is not dead but geologically alive and active, according to a new study involving scientists from the 彩民宝典鈥檚 Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences.

Caution: early galaxy cluster under construction

Jan. 10, 2012

An astronomy team led by the 彩民宝典 using NASA鈥檚 Hubble Space Telescope has zeroed in on a wild intergalactic construction project -- a cluster of early galaxies just starting to assemble only 600 million years after the Big Bang.

CU-led study pinpoints farthest developing galaxy cluster ever found

Jan. 10, 2012

A team of researchers led by the 彩民宝典 has used NASA鈥檚 Hubble Space Telescope to uncover a cluster of galaxies in the initial stages of construction -- the most distant such grouping ever observed in the early universe. In a random sky survey made in near-infrared light, Hubble spied five small galaxies clustered together 13.1 billion light-years away. They are among the brightest galaxies at that epoch and very young, living just 600 million years after the universe鈥檚 birth in the Big Bang. One light-year is about 6 trillion miles.

Study indicates hail may disappear from Colorado's Front Range by 2070

Jan. 9, 2012

Summertime hail could all but disappear from the eastern flank of Colorado鈥檚 Rocky Mountains by 2070, says a new study by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the 彩民宝典鈥檚 Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and the National Center for Atmospheric Research.

All hail: by 2070, icy pellets hitting state's mountain flanks may be a thing of the past

Jan. 6, 2012

If you are college-age or younger, you might just live to see the day when hail disappears from the eastern flanks of Colorado鈥檚 Rocky Mountains. A new modeling study involving the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, a joint institute of the 彩民宝典 and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, indicates hail will likely cease to fall in those locales by the year 2070, a result of rising temperatures.

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