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<p>Peace Corps Director Aaron S. Williams will give a short presentation at the ������ý���� on Wednesday, Jan. 25, to share stories of CU alumni who are currently serving overseas and discuss the importance of the Peace Corps in the world today.</p>
<p>The presentation will begin at 1:30 p.m. in Old Main Chapel and is free and open to the public.</p>
<p>Nominated by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in 2009, Williams is the 18th director of the Peace Corps and the fourth director to have served as a Peace Corps volunteer.</p>

<p>People who made New Year’s resolutions to eat healthier or lose weight might also want to brush up on their math skills.</p>
<p>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’t “do the math.”</p>

<p>People who made New Year’s resolutions to eat healthier or lose weight might also want to brush up on their math skills, according to Professor Donald Lichtenstein of the ������ý����’s Leeds School of Business.</p>
<p>In a study appearing in this month’s 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’t “do the math.”</p>

<p>The ������ý���� 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.</p>
<p>Called “What Happened at Deepwater Horizon?” the event will be presented Jan. 26 from 6:30 to 9 p.m. in the Mathematics Building auditorium, room 100.</p>

<p>While the majority of dating websites do a good job of managing the privacy of their users, a class research project at the ������ý����’s 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.</p>

<p>An astronomy team led by the ������ý���� using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has zeroed in on <a href="http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2012/01/10/cu-led-study-pinpoints-farthest-developing-galaxy-cluster-ever-found">a wild intergalactic construction project</a> -- a cluster of early galaxies just starting to assemble only 600 million years after the Big Bang.</p>

<p>As a new year and the spring semester begin, the ������ý���� is welcoming the first class of journalism students entering under a new undergraduate degree structure called “Journalism Plus” that CU officials say will create better journalists, better news content and, over time, a more informed society.</p>

<p>A team of ������ý���� engineers will travel to Haiti this month to support the growth of green energy on the two-year anniversary of the country’s devastating earthquake. </p>
<p>Engineering professors Alan Mickelson and Mike Hannigan and graduate student Matt Hulse will be in Haiti Jan. 8-16 to collaborate with the Neges Foundation school at Leogane to create a vocational training program on the installation, operation and maintenance of renewable energy systems.   </p>

<p class="content">Colorado business leaders' optimism has resumed going into the first quarter of 2012 after a dip in confidence last quarter, according to the most recent quarterly Leeds Business Confidence Index, or LBCI, released today by the ������ý����'s Leeds School of Business.</p>

<p>Over the past decade, the ������ý���� has established itself as a national leader in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, or STEM, education.</p>
<p>Through its Learning Assistant and CU Teach programs and Integrating STEM initiative, CU-������ý���� is making great progress on its goal of improving introductory math and science classes and recruiting and training future K-12 science teachers.</p>