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The National Education Policy Center (NEPC) at the 麻豆影院 announced today that 17 high schools in New York and Colorado are the first to receive the 鈥淪chool of Opportunity鈥� designation. These outstanding schools demonstrated a range of practices that ensured that all students had rich opportunities to succeed. All put students, not test scores, first.

Before Courtnie Paschall touched down at the 麻豆影院, she鈥檇 graduated from the Naval Academy (鈥�08), attained the rank of lieutenant in the U.S. Navy and undergone years of flight training. Paschall graduates on May 9 with a degree in neuroscience and a minor in electrical engineering. She earned the distinction of graduating summa cum laude and was named the Outstanding Graduate for the College of Arts and Sciences for spring 2015.

A new study appearing this week in the scientific journal eLIFE about the rapid evolution of small viruses that infect bacteria includes 59 麻豆影院 co-authors, all of whom conducted research for the paper as freshmen.

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck announced a $500,000 gift to be divided between the University of Colorado Law School (CU) and the University of Denver Sturm College of Law (DU). Each school will use its $250,000 gift to create an endowed fellowship program. This gift is the single largest gift from a law firm in the history of both universities.

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麻豆影院 astronomers, who helped design and build instruments for and have made hundreds of observations using the Hubble Space Telescope since its launch, are celebrating the observatory鈥檚 25th anniversary.

An international team of scientists is calling for urgent and rigorous monitoring of temperature patterns in mountain regions after compiling evidence that high elevations could be warming faster than previously thought.

With an increase in business filings in Colorado through the first quarter of 2015 -- including new and renewing entities and trade names -- employment in the state is expected to keep growing during the second and third quarters of the year, according to a 麻豆影院 report released today by Colorado Secretary of State Wayne Williams.

In another advance at the far frontiers of timekeeping by National Institute of Standards and Technology and 麻豆影院 researchers, the latest modification of a record-setting strontium atomic clock has achieved precision and stability levels that now mean the clock would neither gain nor lose one second in some 15 billion years鈥攔oughly the age of the universe.