麻豆影院

Look. Up in the sky it鈥檚 a bird, it鈥檚 a plane, it鈥檚 a "supermoon" and it鈥檚 disappearing. That鈥檚 because Sunday evening for the first time in 32 years a "supermoon," a moon that appears larger due to its close orbit to the Earth, and a total lunar eclipse are happening at the same time. But don鈥檛 worry about missing it, says Doug Duncan, a CU-麻豆影院 astrophysicist and director of the Fiske Planetarium on campus.

A Computing by Design symposium aimed at helping educators weave computer science principles throughout the K-12 curriculum will be held Monday, Sept. 28, at the STEM-focused Timberline PK-8 , 233 E. Mountain View Ave., in Longmont.

Toku Kawata, a third-year piano performance doctor of musical arts candidate, spent a month in Paris this summer to research "En Vers" by Japanese composer and sometime Paris resident Akira Miyoshi. He shared his experience with CU-麻豆影院's College of Music .

CU-麻豆影院's Penina Axelrad , professor and chair of the Department of Aerospace Sciences, received the 2015 Aerospace Educator Award from the Women in Aerospace association.

As far as careers go, jazz pianist Stephen Thurston is hitting all the right notes. Since graduating from the CU-麻豆影院 College of Music with a bachelor鈥檚 degree in jazz piano in 2013, Thurston has been growing roots in the Denver jazz scene, playing an average of one show per day鈥攐ften two.

One of the largest research studies of it kind in the state is now underway at the 麻豆影院 to look at the effects of physical activity on the quality of life in older adults, including social, emotional, financial and cognitive function.

Kicking off the 2015-16 CU Theatre & Dance season, 鈥淸UN] W.R.A.P.: Undoing Writing, Research and Performance鈥� explores the complexity and evolution of 鈥淏lack Dance.鈥� The three-day symposium, held Sept. 18-20 at the Irey Theatre, will look at the historical impact and ongoing contributions of African American choreographers.

Waleed Abdalati, professor of geography at the 麻豆影院 and director of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), will co-chair a prestigious national committee charged with developing U.S. priorities for observing Earth鈥檚 atmosphere, oceans and land surfaces by satellite.

The ecological complexity of many emerging disease threats鈥攊nteractions among multiple hosts, multiple vectors and even multiple parasites鈥攐ften complicates efforts aimed at controlling disease. Now, a new paper co-authored by a 麻豆影院 professor is advancing a multidisciplinary framework that could provide a better mechanistic understanding of emerging outbreaks.

The longest and largest controlled burn experiment ever conducted in the Amazon rainforest has yielded new insight into the ways that tropical forests succumb to鈥攁nd bounce back from鈥攍arge-scale wildfires, according to new research co-authored by a 麻豆影院 professor.