Science & Technology
- <p>Community gardeners eat more vegetables, exercise more, weigh less and feel healthier than nongardeners -- and even home gardeners -- in the Denver-metro area, researchers led by scholars from the University of Colorado have found.</p>
- <p>Samples of icy spray shooting from Saturn's moon Enceladus collected during Cassini spacecraft flybys show the strongest evidence yet for the existence of a large-scale, subterranean saltwater ocean, says a new international study led by the University of Heidelberg and involving the ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß.</p>
- <p>A famed Russian director will direct one of four plays to be offered at this summer's Colorado Shakespeare Festival at the ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß, including two bilingual performances.</p>
- <p>The ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß will host the 2011 Linguistics Institute from July 7 to Aug. 2, a prestigious gathering of faculty and students from around the world that also will feature free films, workshops and lectures open to the public.</p>
- <p>As the nation recognizes the 150th anniversary of the Civil War's start, public interest has been rekindled in the war and the numerous memorials and monuments marking historic figures, sites and battlegrounds in states around the country.</p>
- <p>The National Science Foundation has awarded the ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß a six-year, $5.9 million grant to continue intensive studies of long-term ecological changes in Colorado's high mountains, both natural and human-caused, over decades and centuries.</p>
- <p>An international research team led by Japan and including the ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß may have taken a significant step in discovering why matter trumped antimatter at the time of the Big Bang, helping to create virtually all of the galaxies and stars in the universe.</p>
- <p>A new ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß study indicates the infestation of trees by mountain pine beetles in the high country across the West could potentially trigger earlier snowmelt and increase water yields from snowpack that accumulates beneath affected trees.</p>
- <p>DENVER – Three University of Colorado researchers have been named to the 2011 class of Boettcher Investigators in the Webb-Waring Biomedical Research Program. This is the second year for the program, which supports early career scientists in their work toward making discoveries that improve human health.</p>
<p>CU's 2011 Boettcher Investigators are:</p>
<p>Zhe Chen, Ph.D., assistant research professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology at the ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß, whose research focuses on axon guidance during neural development</p> - <p>¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß environmental design students are kicking off a community discussion on the future of University Hill public space through a series of installations being placed throughout the neighborhood this week.</p>