Building from within: a new program to develop CU-麻豆影院's leaders

June 20, 2013

The Department of Human Resources and the Lockheed Martin Engineering Management Program are excited to announce the launch of an exclusive Leadership and Management Graduate Certificate Program . Designed with CU-麻豆影院 employees in mind, the program will help our current and future leaders develop and refine their leadership skills and learn new ways to measure and enhance organizational effectiveness with practical application. Course content is applicable to all professions and does not require a technical or engineering background. Our employees will be able to use the tuition reimbursement benefit to cover tuition, and employees selected to participate in this exclusive program will be allowed to attend classes during work time and the employee鈥檚 department will pay for the costs of any fees and books.

Amount of dust blown across the West is increasing, says CU-麻豆影院 study

June 10, 2013

The amount of dust being blown across the landscape has increased over the last 17 years in large swaths of the West, according to a new study led by the 麻豆影院. The escalation in dust emissions 鈥 which may be due to the interplay of several factors, including increased windstorm frequency, drought cycles and changing land-use patterns 鈥 has implications both for the areas where the dust is first picked up by the winds and for the places where the dust is put back down.

Protein linked with tumor growth could be potential target for cancer-fighting drugs, according to study led by CU-麻豆影院

June 6, 2013

A team of researchers led by the 麻豆影院 has discovered a protein complex that could be targeted with drugs to stunt tumor growth. As tumors expand, their centers are deprived of oxygen, and so tumors must flip specific genetic switches to survive in these hypoxic environments.

Diet likely changed game for some hominids 3.5 million years ago, says CU-麻豆影院 study

June 3, 2013

A new look at the diets of ancient African hominids shows a 鈥済ame changer鈥 occurred about 3.5 million years ago when some members added grasses or sedges to their menus, according to a new study led by the 麻豆影院.

Water-rock reaction may provide enough hydrogen 鈥榝ood鈥 to sustain life in cool parts of the ocean鈥檚 crust or on Mars

May 30, 2013

A chemical reaction between iron-containing minerals and water may produce enough hydrogen 鈥渇ood鈥 to sustain microbial communities living in pores and cracks within the enormous volume of rock below the ocean floor and parts of the continents, according to a new study led by the 麻豆影院. The findings, published in the journal Nature Geoscience, also hint at the possibility that hydrogen-dependent life could have existed where iron-rich igneous rocks on Mars were once in contact with water.

5 CU-麻豆影院 students patent medical device through partnership with CU Cancer Center researcher

May 29, 2013

Five 麻豆影院 students have partnered with a researcher at the University of Colorado Cancer Center to file a patent for a medical device that lets researchers quickly, easily and inexpensively isolate a patient鈥檚 cancer cells for genetic tests that allow doctors to target the disease.

CU-麻豆影院 organizing effort to establish unmanned aircraft test site in Colorado

May 24, 2013

A state application organized by the 麻豆影院 has been submitted to the Federal Aviation Administration for the development of one of six unmanned aircraft systems test sites slated to be established across the United States .

CU-麻豆影院 physics prof Ivan Smalyukh receives Early Career Award from DOE

May 23, 2013

麻豆影院 faculty member Ivan Smalyukh is among 61 scientists to receive a 2013 Early Career Award from the U.S. Department of Energy . Smalyukh, an assistant professor of physics and a founding fellow of the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute , or RASEI, has been awarded $750,000 over five years. RASEI is a joint venture between CU-麻豆影院 and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

CU-麻豆影院 students partner with middle school to teach financial literacy

May 22, 2013

As the school year wraps up, students at Summit Charter Middle School in 麻豆影院 will debrief on how their $25,000 stock portfolio performed. The middle school students invested money under supervision as part of a course created and taught by accounting and finance students from the 麻豆影院鈥檚 Leeds School of Business .

CU-麻豆影院 helps tap crowds to digitize museum records of bugs and plants

May 21, 2013

Inside the natural history museums of the world are billions of animal and plant specimens from birds, fish and beetles to flowers, mushrooms and grasses, all stacked, stored and preserved in jars and collection drawers. The rich and diverse collections could be critical to understanding how the Earth鈥檚 biodiversity is changing in the face of a growing human footprint 鈥 if only the information were easily accessible.

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