Science & Technology
- <p>Professor Thomas Veblen of the geography department can address the ecological effects of wildfires in Colorado; climate change and wildfires; fires and bark beetles; and wildfires. He can be reached at 303-492-8528 or <a href="mailto:Thomas.Veblen@colorado.edu">Thomas.Veblen@colorado.edu</a>. E-mail is the best way contact him.</p>
<p>Jane Bock, retired professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, can address western wildfire ecology. She can be reached at 970-593-0343 or 303-579-9739, or by e-mail at <a href="mailto:Jane.Bock@colorado.edu">Jane.Bock@colorado.edu</a>.</p> - <p>Observations made with NASA's newly refurbished Hubble Space Telescope of a nearby supernova are allowing astronomers to measure the velocity and composition of "star guts" being ejected into space following the explosion, according to a new study led by the University of Colorado at ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß.</p>
- <p>Faculty at the University of Colorado at ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß, Montana State University, the University of Idaho and collaborators at the U.S. Forest Service received a $3.85 million grant to study fire and climate change in sensitive forests in the United States, Australia and New Zealand.</p>
- <p>A multidisciplinary team of University of Colorado faculty has been awarded $1.97 million by the National Science Foundation to develop a "living wall" system based on biomimicry, or the imitation of nature, to slash energy use in buildings.</p>
- <p>University of Colorado at ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß undergraduates, who have been helping to control five NASA satellites from campus, participated in the unusual decommissioning of a functioning satellite with a failed science payload in recent days, bringing the craft into Earth re-entry to burn up yesterday.</p>
- <p>Large changes in the sun's energy output may drive unexpectedly dramatic fluctuations in Earth's outer atmosphere, new research indicates. A study published today links a recent, temporary shrinking of a high atmospheric layer with a sharp drop in the sun's ultraviolet radiation levels.</p>
- CU-¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß Team to Assess Air Quality and Respiratory Health Risks Stemming From Gulf Oil Spill<p>Postdoctoral fellows and graduate students from Professor Mark Hernandez's environmental engineering lab at the University of Colorado at ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß will travel to the Gulf Coast this week to begin studying the effect of this summer's oil spill on air quality along impacted shores.</p>
- <p>DENVER—University of Colorado campuses and undergraduate programs remain well-regarded at the regional and national levels among public and private universities, according to the 2011 edition of U.S. News & World Report's Best Colleges.</p>
- <p>A planned $110 million telescope in Chile that the University of Colorado at ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß is partnering on to probe distant galaxies and stellar nurseries has been named as the top construction priority for mid-sized, ground-based telescopes by the National Research Council in the coming decade.</p>
- <p>A thick blanket of yellow haze hovering over Houston as a result of chemical pollution produced by manufacturing petroleum products may be getting a little bit thinner, according to a new study.</p>