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  • The University of Colorado at 抖阴传媒在线 has been awarded $1.4 million for a new study on how changes in land use, forest management and climate may affect trans-basin water diversions in Colorado and other semi-arid regions in the western United
  • Elisabeth Sheffield, associate professor of English, won a $25,000 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship in Prose this year. Photo by Noah Larsen.
    Elisabeth Sheffield, associate professor of English, won a $25,000 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship in Prose this year. Photo by Noah Larsen.In each of the past two years, a CU-抖阴传媒在线 faculty member has won a Creative Writing Fellowship from the
  • Daniel Doak, a conservation biologist, was hired by CU-抖阴传媒在线 as its first Colorado Chair in Environmental Studies. Here, he works at CU鈥檚 Mountain Research Station on Niwot Ridge west of 抖阴传媒在线. Photo by Camille Mona Howitaawi Del Duca.
    CU-抖阴传媒在线 has hired its first Colorado Chair in Environmental Studies, an endowed chair awarded to Daniel Doak, a conservation biologist known for his quantitative analysis of how different government policies could affect the populations of species ranging from sea otters, California condors, corals, and rare plants.
  • Two 抖阴传媒在线 undergraduate student teams have been named among the 10 top winners from a field of 3,697 teams that entered the international Mathematical Contest in Modeling.Results of the 2012 contest were announced this month
  • Steaphanie Mollborn
    When transition between adolescence and adulthood is missed, young adults can suffer preventable consequences, CU research suggestsTo most Americans of today, the idea of adolescence鈥攖hat period of transition from childhood to adulthood bracketed by
  • Michelle Ellsworth, an assistant professor of theatre and dance at CU, is a performance artist and dancer whose work has earned her a prestigious fellowship. Bud Coleman, says the award "is a powerful statement that the peer-review panel recognizes that not all cutting-edge solo dance is created by artists living in New York City.鈥
    A 抖阴传媒在线 dancer and performance artist has won a $50,000 USA Fellowship Grant, an award designed to put unrestricted grants 鈥渄irectly into the hands of America鈥檚 finest artists.鈥
  • The Panama Canal was constructed in the early 1900s by the U.S. government, which tackled public-health threats to workers in some cases and to some degree. But the narrative is more complex than is sometimes conveyed, a CU historian contends. Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress.
    Before the 20th century, the tropics were widely feared as home to dread diseases such as yellow fever and malaria. Building the Panama Canal helped change that view, but the brighter perception didn鈥檛 fully match the grittier truth.
  • Margaret Murnane
    抖阴传媒在线 Distinguished Professor Margaret Murnane has been awarded Ireland鈥檚 top science award, the RDS Irish Times Boyle Medal for Scientific Excellence, for her pioneering work that has transformed the field of ultrafast
  • Baylor Fox-Kemper, assistant professor of atmospheric and ocean sciences at the University of Colorado. Photo courtesy of Baylor Fox-Kemper.
    Baylor Fox-Kemper, assistant professor of atmospheric and ocean sciences at the University of Colorado has won the Ocean Sciences Early Career Award from the American Geophysical Union.Fox-Kemper was cited for his 鈥渇undamental contributions to
  • Claire Farago
    Claire FaragoTwo 抖阴传媒在线 professors are conducting research in Finland and the United Kingdom as Fulbright Scholars for the 2011-12 academic year.Professor Claire Farago of CU-抖阴传媒在线鈥檚 art and art history department is doing
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