Southwest regional warming likely cause of pinyon pine cone decline, says CU study

Feb. 12, 2013

Creeping climate change in the Southwest appears to be having a negative effect on pinyon pine reproduction, a finding with implications for wildlife species sharing the same woodland ecosystems, says a University of Colorado Boulder-led study.

CU-Boulder announces finalists for Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and Policy

Feb. 11, 2013

The University of Colorado Boulder today announced three finalists for the inaugural Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and Policy. This month, the finalists will make one-day campus visits, during which they will hold public forums. Since last summer, an advisory committee has been working to identify finalists. The committee has sought a “highly visible†scholar who is “deeply engaged in either the analytical scholarship or practice of conservative thinking and policymaking or both.â€

NASA’s MAVEN mission completes assembly, begins environmental testing

Feb. 8, 2013

NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft is assembled and is undergoing environmental testing at Lockheed Martin Space Systems facilities, near Denver, Colo. MAVEN is the next mission to Mars and will be the first mission devoted to understanding the Martian upper atmosphere.

Chancellor's Corner: The proof is in the patents

Feb. 7, 2013

I speak frequently about how CU-Boulder discovery and innovation leads to economic development, company creation and advancements for society. Here’s a bit of proof. A new study from the Brookings Institution released a week ago finds Boulder among the top five patent-producing metropolitan areas in the nation.

Human bacteria sequencing project involving CU raises $340,000 online

Feb. 5, 2013

In hopes of better understanding nutrition and health, the University of Colorado Boulder is playing the leading science role in a “crowdfunding†effort that has raised more than $340,000 for a project designed to sequence the gut bacteria of thousands of people around the world.

CU-Boulder engineering students to unveil grand orrery on Feb. 11

Feb. 4, 2013

A scaled, working model of the solar system built by engineering students at the University of Colorado Boulder will be officially unveiled at Andrews Hall on Feb. 11.

Can plants be altruistic? You bet, says new CU-Boulder-led study

Feb. 1, 2013

We’ve all heard examples of animal altruism: Dogs caring for orphaned kittens, chimps sharing food or dolphins nudging injured mates to the surface. Now, a study led by the University of Colorado Boulder suggests some plants are altruistic too.

CIRES-led study discovers high levels of air-cleansing compound over ocean

Jan. 24, 2013

Researchers have detected the presence of a pollutant-destroying compound iodine monoxide in surprisingly high levels high above the tropical ocean, according to a new study led by the University of Colorado Boulder’s Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences.

Deep ice cores show past Greenland warm period may be ‘road map’ for continued warming of planet

Jan. 23, 2013

A new study by an international team of scientists analyzing ice cores from the Greenland ice sheet going back in time more than 100,000 years indicates the last interglacial period may be a good analog for where the planet is headed in terms of increasing greenhouse gases and rising temperatures.

CU-Boulder’s sun-gazing SORCE satellite, designed to last 5 years, turns 10

Jan. 22, 2013

When a sun-gazing NASA satellite designed and built by the University of Colorado Boulder launched into space on Jan. 25, 2003, solar storms were raging.

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