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<p>Ruth Ellen Kocher, professor of English and director of the creative writing program at the ������ý����, has won a prestigious PEN Literary Award.</p>
<p>Kocher was a co-winner of the PEN Open Book Award for her book of poems titled <em>domina Un/blued.</em> The award recognizes an exceptional book-length work of literature by an author of color. Also winning the award was Nina McConigley for <em>Cowboys and East Indians</em>.</p>

<p>A program designed at the ������ý���� to teach kids to code using video games is being introduced into New York City public schools as part of an initiative to give every student access to computer science education.</p>
<p>Scalable Game Design is a program developed over two decades by CU-������ý���� computer science Professor Alexander Repenning to spark an interest in coding among kids by allowing them to design and build their own video games. The idea behind the program, which uses drag-and-drop programming tools, is to combat the widely held notion that computer programming is hard and boring.</p>

<p>Everyone has heard about the harmful effects of pollution on human and plant health, but until recently, visualizing such effects took some imagination.</p>

<p>Playing in schoolyards that feature natural habitats and trees and not just asphalt and recreation equipment reduces children’s stress and inattention, according to a ������ý���� study.</p>

<p>Coming up in the CU-������ý����’s <a href="http://atlas.colorado.edu/wordpress/?page_id=542" target="_blank">ATLAS Black Box Theater</a> is <a href="http://squareproducttheatre.org/" target="_blank">square product theatre’s</a> production of "SLAB," an adaptation of Denver writer Selah Saterstrom’s forthcoming novel. The story is about a woman’s life in the American South told through her memories and from the slab of her post-Katrina home.</p>

<p>An international team led by the Kavli Institute for Cosmology at the University of Cambridge and involving the ������ý���� has a new tool to look for the oldest galaxies in the universe: 32 days of observing time with the Hubble Space Telescope.</p>

<p>Something is amiss in the universe. There appears to be an enormous deficit of ultraviolet light in the cosmic budget.</p>
<p>Observations made by the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph, a $70 million instrument designed by the ������ý���� and installed on the Hubble Space Telescope, have revealed that the universe is “missing” a large amount of light.</p>

<p>Deborah Jin has won the 2014 Isaac Newton Medal, the highest accolade given by the Institute of Physics. She was cited for her experimental work in laser cooling atoms. This work has led to the practical demonstration of universal laws that upderpin fundamental quantum behavior. </p>

<p>Meet perhaps the tiniest hedgehog species ever: <em>Silvacola acares. </em>Its roughly 52-million-year-old fossil remains were recently identified by a ������ý����-led team working in British Columbia.</p>
<p><span id="">The hedgehog’s scientific name means “tiny forest dweller,” said CU-������ý���� Associate Professor Jaelyn Eberle of the geological sciences department, lead author on the study. The creature -- a new genus and species to science -- was only about 2 inches long, roughly the length of an adult thumb.</span></p>

<p class="p1">The massive increase in earthquakes in central Oklahoma is likely being caused by the injection of vast amounts of wastewater from oil and gas operations into underground layers of rock, according to a new study led by Cornell University and involving the ������ý����.</p>