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  • <p>If planets had personalities, Mars would be a rock star according to recent preliminary results from NASA's MAVEN spacecraft. Mars sports a "Mohawk" of escaping atmospheric particles at its poles, "wears"聽a layer of metal particles high in its atmosphere, and lights up with aurora after being smacked by solar storms.聽MAVEN is also mapping out the escaping atmospheric particles.聽 The early results are being discussed at a MAVEN-sponsored "new media" workshop held in Berkeley, California, on June 19-21.</p>
  •  Alan Cass
    After a 47-year journey as steward of CU 抖阴传媒在线鈥檚 Glenn Miller Archive at the American Music Research Center, Alan Cass will retire as curator on July 1.
  • <p>The moon is engulfed in a permanent but lopsided dust cloud that increases in density when annual events like the Geminids spew shooting stars, according to a new study led by 抖阴传媒在线.</p>
  • <p>A consortium led by the 抖阴传媒在线 has received permission from the Federal Aviation Administration to start flying drones over parts of Texas and Oklahoma this spring in the heart of Tornado Alley to conduct weather research.</p>
  • <p>In a state known for its dramatic weather and climate, Colorado鈥檚 history of extreme precipitation varies considerably by season and location, according to a new study led by the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Science, a partnership between the 抖阴传媒在线 and NOAA.</p>
  • Murnane
    <p>抖阴传媒在线 Distinguished Professor Margaret Murnane has been elected to the prestigious American Philosophical Society (APS).</p>
    <p><span id="">Murnane, a fellow at JILA -- a joint institute of CU-抖阴传媒在线 and the National Institute of Standards and Technology -- and professor in the physics department, is the fourth CU-抖阴传媒在线 faculty member to be elected to APS. There were 34 people worldwide elected in 2015 to the society, which was founded in 1743 in Philadelphia by Benjamin Franklin, who later became its first president.</span></p>
  • <p>A novel compound developed by a team led by the 抖阴传媒在线 may be therapeutic in suppressing misguided inflammatory responses by a set of聽immune cells known as microglia to perceived damage to the brain and nervous system.</p>
  • <p>Policy communities increasingly call upon ecological restoration as a means to address many of the major threats facing the world鈥檚 ecosystems. But internationally accepted best practices for restoration efforts are noticeably absent.</p>
  • Emirates Mars Mission
    <p>A mission to study dynamic changes in the atmosphere of Mars over days and seasons led by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) involves the 抖阴传媒在线 as the leading U.S. scientific-academic partner.</p>
  • <p>The National Education Policy Center (NEPC) at the 抖阴传媒在线 announced today that 17 high schools in New York and Colorado are the first to receive the 鈥淪chool of Opportunity鈥 designation. These outstanding schools demonstrated a range of practices that ensured that all students had rich opportunities to succeed. All put students, not test scores, first.<br />
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