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<p class="p1">Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler and Federal Trade Commission Chairwoman Edith Ramirez will speak at a ������ý���� conference dealing with Internet governance issues Feb. 9-10.</p>
<p class="p1">The conference, “Digital Broadband Migration: After the Internet Protocol Revolution,” will be hosted by the University of Colorado Law School’s <a href="http://www.siliconflatirons.com/index.php">Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology and Entrepreneurship</a>.</p>

<p>This spring CU-������ý����’s Center for Asian Studies is launching a new <a href="http://cas.colorado.edu/content/asian-studies-minor">Asian Studies minor</a>, open to all students on campus, with the goal of helping students understand Asia as a region beyond one particular nation.</p>

<p>Scientists have known that shy toddlers often have delayed speech, but a new study by the ������ý���� shows that the lag in using words does not mean that the children don’t understand what’s being said.</p>

<p>A renowned Seoul-based artist will use steel ground into a fine, black powder to write calligraphic inscriptions on the floor of the CU-������ý���� Visual Arts Complex on Feb. 11, followed by a performance-art piece and a lecture by the artist.</p>
<p>This is one of several free events during the two-week residency of Kim Jongku at the ������ý���� Department of Art and Art History. Kim works in sculpture, video, painting and photography and will be in residency here Feb. 3 to Feb. 14.</p>

<p>������ý���� Provost Russell L. Moore today announced two finalists for the position of dean of the College of Music. The finalists for the position are Mary Ellen Poole, former dean of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and Robert Shay, director of the School of Music at the University of Missouri in Columbia.</p>

<p>For the first time ever, a team led by the ������ý���� has sequenced the internal bacterial makeup of the three major life stages of a butterfly species, a project that showed some surprising events occur during metamorphosis.</p>
<p>The team, led by CU-������ý���� doctoral student Tobin Hammer, used powerful DNA sequencing methods to characterize bacterial communities inhabiting caterpillars, pupae and adults of <em>Heliconius erato</em>, commonly known as the red postman butterfly. The red postman is an abundant tropical butterfly found in Central and South America.</p>

<p><span>Students from the ������ý����’s Leeds School of Business will offer free tax preparation services to individuals under the Internal Revenue Service-sponsored Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program. </span><span>Members of the public who make $52,000 or less are eligible for the service, now in its fifth year at the Leeds School.</span></p>

<p>The ������ý���� has been awarded a cooperative agreement worth up to $14.6 million from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop a new technological system to rapidly determine how drugs and biological or chemical agents exert their effects on human cells.</p>
<p>The project, called the Subcellular Pan-Omics for Advanced Rapid Threat Assessment, or SPARTA, will be conducted by an interdisciplinary CU-������ý���� team led by Research Assistant Professor William Old of the chemistry and biochemistry department.</p>

<p>The ������ý���� has named Mark Meaney as executive director of the Center for Education on Social Responsibility (CESR) at the Leeds School of Business.</p>

<p>Heralding a new age of terrific timekeeping, a research group at JILA—a joint institute of the ������ý���� and the National Institute of Standards and Technology—has unveiled an experimental strontium atomic clock that has set new world records for both precision and stability.</p>