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John Grisham Liked It聽

Bestselling novelist John Grisham found an article by Colorado Law professor Paul Campos so compelling, he calls it the inspiration for his latest book, The Rooster Bar.

As Grisham 鈥� author of the The Firm, The Pelican Brief, The Client and other huge bestsellers 鈥� publicized the new book late last year, he repeatedly cited Campos鈥� 2014 nonfiction article in The Atlantic, telling CBS This Morning that it 鈥渞eally opened my eyes. It was a great piece. The novel was quickly born from that.鈥�

Campos鈥� article, 鈥淭he Law School Scam,鈥� is about the perils for students and society of expensive for-profit law schools with questionable admissions standards.

Three students attending a fictional for-profit law school are at the center of The Rooster Bar.

After the book came out, Grisham sent Campos a copy and a note.

鈥淚t was nice, needless to say, to have a story like that featured in a John Grisham novel,鈥� Campos told the 麻豆影院 Daily Camera.

Let鈥檚 say you see a great white shark and you are scared and your brain wants to form a memory of what鈥檚 going on. You have to make new proteins to encode that memory 鈥�

鈥� CU 麻豆影院 scientist Charles Hoeffer, on his recent research about the role of the protein AKT.

Soft Robots聽

CU 麻豆影院 engineers are developing a new breed of 鈥渟oft鈥� robot that can handle fragile objects, such as fruit, yet also lift heavy ones, such as a jug of water. Made of various elastic materials and liquids and powered by electricity, the versatile, self-healing robots depend on something like artificial muscle to generate 鈥渢he adaptability of an octopus arm, the speed of a hummingbird and the strength of an elephant,鈥� said Christoph Keplinger, the mechanical engineering professor whose research group leads the work.

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