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  • Mark Leiderman, professor and chair of the CU-抖阴传媒在线 Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages & Literatures, calls on a student during class. Born and educated in Russia, Leiderman contends that the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature, awarded to Belarusian author Svetlana Alexievich, underscores the importance of Russian Studies. He notes that Russian studies are expanding at CU.
    For Svetlana Alexievich, this year's winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Soviet Union is a kind of 鈥榟istorical Chernobyl that still produces contamination and radiation鈥攑sychological, historical, political and cultural,鈥 CU-抖阴传媒在线 expert Mark Leiderman observes. He says now is a good time for students and the world to learn more about Russia, and the university has already moved to meet that need.
  • Like many academic scholars, sociologist David Pyrooz studies criminal gangs. He has also studied how gang-related research could help inform research on terrorism and extremist groups. Photo: iStockphoto.
    David Pyrooz, a 抖阴传媒在线 sociologist who is advancing the study of terrorism by applying research on criminal gangs, has won an Early Career Award from the American Society of Criminology.
  • Distinguished Professor Steven Maier discovered a brain mechanism that not only produces resilience to trauma but aids in coping with future adversity.
    抖阴传媒在线 scientist Steven Maier, who discovered a brain mechanism that not only produces resilience to trauma but aids in coping with future adversity, has won the 2016 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Psychology.
  • Amy Palmer
    抖阴传媒在线 Associate Professor Amy Palmer was awarded a coveted Director鈥檚 Pioneer Award from the National Institutes of Health to study how metals, including zinc, affect the health of humans.
  • A team led by the 抖阴传媒在线 has been awarded $9.2 million over five years from the U.S. Department of Energy to research modifying E. coli to produce biofuels such as gasoline.鈥淭his is a fantastic opportunity to take what we
  • NIST physicist David Wineland adjusts an ultraviolet laser beam used to manipulate ions in a high-vacuum apparatus containing an 鈥渋on trap.鈥 These devices have been used to demonstrate the basic operations required for a quantum computer. Such computers, by relying on quantum mechanics rather than transistors to perform calculations or store information, could someday solve problems in seconds that would take months on today鈥檚 best supercomputers. Photo by Geoffrey Wheeler/NIST.
    David J. Wineland, a lecturer in the 抖阴传媒在线 physics department, has won the 2012 Nobel Prize in physics.Wineland is a physicist with the National Institute of Standards and Technology in 抖阴传媒在线 and internationally recognized
  • John Wahr
    抖阴传媒在线 Professor John Wahr of the physics department has been elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a top honor recognizing scientists and engineers for their distinguished and continuing achievements in
  • Performers on stage
    On May 28, a small crew will pack up the country of Illyria 鈥 better known as Albania 鈥 load it onto trucks, and haul it north, from Arvada to 抖阴传媒在线. Not the actual nation, it鈥檚 true, however, the caravan will transport the elaborate sets created to portray the world of Shakespeare鈥檚 鈥淭welfth Night.鈥
  • Chair is ecstatic but not surprisedUniversity of Colorado at 抖阴传媒在线 chemistry and biochemistry department chair David Walba said having a single assistant professor win a National Science Foundation CAREER Award would be phenomenal.So it鈥檚 not
  • Margaret Tolbert
    University of Colorado at 抖阴传媒在线 chemistry and biochemistry Professor Margaret Tolbert has been awarded the American Chemical Society鈥檚 Creative Advances in Environmental Sciences and Technology Award for her groundbreaking research in atmospheric
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