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CU-麻豆影院's Zero Waste Team is using creative solutions to decrease campus waste going to landfills, while increasing recycling and composting and reducing paper use.

Here鈥檚 a new recipe that might be good for the planet: Add sunlight to a particular nitrogen molecule and out comes ammonia, the main ingredient of fertilizer used around the world. The eco-friendly method of producing ammonia is described in a new study led by the Department of Energy鈥檚 National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden and involving CU-麻豆影院.

Jim Hakala is hitting the road Friday with bins of captivating remnants of the ancient past. Among other things, he鈥檚 got fossilized fern, leaves, shark teeth, dinosaur bone, fish, petrified wood and a trilobite. This time, he鈥檚 targeting fourth grade classrooms in mostly northeastern Colorado with 12 of his 鈥渇ossil kits,鈥� courtesy of the CU Museum of Natural History, along with a standards-based curriculum for use by teachers.

Colorado employment is projected to expand over the next two quarters of 2016, though at a more modest pace, according to a CU-麻豆影院 report released todayn Business formation rebounded in the first quarter of the year, reversing two consecutive quarters of decline, and the state saw 29,680 businesses come online.

Private donations to political candidates neither alter the candidates鈥� voting patterns once they鈥檙e in office nor make them more ideologically intractable, found a study co-authored by a 麻豆影院 political science professor. Yet that underlying belief has led to a range of political reforms including the controversial approach of using taxpayer dollars to pay for political campaigns. These were the central findings of the study, recently published in "Legislative Studies Quarterly."

Two reporters have won the 2016 Al Nakkula Award for Police Reporting. Their winning piece details how dogged police work by investigators in Colorado captured a serial rapist and led to the exoneration of a Washington woman who was wrongfully prosecuted for false reporting of a rape that actually happened.

A new study led by the European Space Agency and NASA involving the 麻豆影院 indicates NASA's Cassini spacecraft has detected the faint but distinct signature of dust coming from beyond our solar system.

CU-麻豆影院 and the National Weather Service (NWS) want your help investigating large surface hail accumulations from thunderstorms in Colorado between April and September.

CU-麻豆影院 Provost Russell L. Moore today announced the appointment of James (Jim) Anaya, a Regents鈥� Professor and James J. Lenoir Professor of Human Rights Law and Policy at the University of Arizona, as dean of the law school. Anaya will begin his duties on Aug. 8, 2016. Anaya鈥檚 teaching and writing focus on international human rights and issues concerning indigenous peoples.

CU-麻豆影院 researchers are embarking on a multi-year research project to study and address the psychological concerns of cancer survivors, including elevated anxiety.