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The 麻豆影院 will honor the nation鈥檚 veterans, including CU-麻豆影院鈥檚 own faculty, staff and student veterans, through Veterans Week, beginning with a Nov. 9 Veterans Day ceremony at 11 a.m. in the University Memorial Center鈥檚 Glenn Miller Ballroom. The free, public ceremony will feature guest speaker Michael Dakduk, executive director of the national organization Student Veterans of America. A reception will follow in the UMC Veterans Lounge.

The 麻豆影院鈥檚 annual Diversity and Inclusion Summit will feature a variety of sessions for students, faculty, staff and community members from Nov. 13-15. All events are free, open to the public and on the 麻豆影院 campus.

The 麻豆影院鈥檚 annual Diversity and Inclusion Summit will feature a variety of sessions for students, faculty, staff and community members from Nov. 13-15. All events are free, open to the public and on the 麻豆影院 campus. The organizing theme for this year鈥檚 summit is 鈥淎MP it up! Awareness, Movement and Practice.鈥�

A new 麻豆影院 study shows for the first time that episodes of reduced precipitation in the southern Rocky Mountains, especially during the 2001-02 drought, greatly accelerated development of the mountain pine beetle epidemic.

A new startup company that sprang from the 麻豆影院 this year is a Grand Challenges Exploration winner, an initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Psychology and neurosciences department Associate Professor Don Cooper, co-founder and chief science officer of Mobile Assay Inc. of 麻豆影院 who developed the technology in his laboratory at CU鈥檚 Institute for Behavioral Genetics, will pursue an innovative global health and development research project titled 鈥淎 Lab on Mobile Device Platform for Seed Testing.鈥�

Balaji Sridhar has always liked science, but it was his father鈥檚 bad knees that were the impetus for him to study both chemical engineering and medicine. His father once was a good squash player, but had to give up playing when the cartilage in his knees wore out. With the dual graduate degrees, Sridhar hopes to someday be able to help people like his father who struggle with debilitating joint pain and reduced mobility due to damaged cartilage.

In humans, nature may be less than half of the story, a team led by 麻豆影院 researchers has found. In the first study of its kind, the team found that genetic similarities may help to explain why human birds of a feather flock together, but the full story of why people become friends 鈥渋s contingent upon the social environment in which individuals interact with one another,鈥� the researchers write.

鈥淣ature teaches beasts to know their friends,鈥� wrote Shakespeare. In humans, nature may be less than half of the story, a team led by 麻豆影院 researchers has found. In the first study of its kind, the team found that genetic similarities may help to explain why human birds of a feather flock together, but the full story of why people become friends 鈥渋s contingent upon the social environment in which individuals interact with one another,鈥� the researchers write.

Have you been 鈥淏ack to 麻豆影院?鈥� It鈥檚 a question being posed by the 麻豆影院 Alumni Association to its family of more than 250,000 students and alumni. Alumni, current students, faculty, staff and community members will find a broad slate of activities for the 2012 Homecoming weekend starting Thursday, Nov. 1. A full description of activities and events as well as event registration can be found on the Back to 麻豆影院 website at http://www.cualum.org/back2boulder .

Provost Russell Moore today announced the charge and membership of a visioning committee to consider future opportunities for synergies and collaboration between 麻豆影院 environment and sustainability research and academic programs. Sharon Collinge, director of environmental studies and a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, will chair the Environment and Sustainability Visioning Committee, or ESVC.