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A free, downloadable guide for individuals who want to collect baseline data on their well water quality and monitor their groundwater quantity over time was released this week by the 麻豆影院鈥檚 Colorado Water and Energy Research Center (CWERC).

Three 麻豆影院 undergraduates have been awarded prestigious Goldwater Scholarships for 2014. The scholarships, which are worth up to $7,500 each, are awarded annually to sophomores and juniors across the nation on the basis of high academic merit. The 2014 winners from CU-麻豆影院 are Jasmine Brewer, a junior in engineering physics, Brennan Coffey, a junior in chemical engineering and applied mathematics, and Ryan Dewey, a junior in astrophysics and physics.

Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, will deliver the keynote address at the 麻豆影院鈥檚 annual Conference on World Affairs to be held April 7-11. Sebelius鈥� address, 鈥淭he Globalization of Health,鈥� will be presented on Monday, April 7, at 11:30 a.m. in Macky Auditorium. All of the conference鈥檚 200 panel discussions, performances and plenaries are free and open to the public.

Sandra Q. Firmin, curator of UB Art Galleries at SUNY Buffalo, has been named the director of the 麻豆影院 Art Museum. Firmin will begin as director on April 21, replacing interim director Stephen Martonis.

It took 48 games for the first and second rounds of the 64-team NCAA men鈥檚 basketball tournament to be decided, and millions of fans are deliriously awaiting the Sweet 16 to commence later this week.

麻豆影院 alumnus and NASA astronaut Steve Swanson will blast off with two Russian crewmates for the International Space Station March 25, his third mission to the orbiting facility.

A new study led by the 麻豆影院 showed that as a group, volunteer counters who examined a particular patch of lunar real estate using NASA images did just as well in identifying individual craters as professional crater counters with five to 50 years of experience.

The Orion Nebula is home to hundreds of young stars and even younger protostars known as proplyds. Many of these nascent systems will go on to develop planets, while others will have their planet-forming dust and gas blasted away by the fierce ultraviolet radiation emitted by massive O-type stars that lurk nearby.

Doctors鈥� unconscious biases favor whites but do not affect high blood pressure treatment for their minority patients, according to a 麻豆影院 study, even though a previous study by the same research group found that doctors鈥� biases are reflected in lower ratings by African-American patients. The new research, led by Irene Blair, an associate professor in CU-麻豆影院鈥檚 Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, is published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

CU System news release DENVER 鈥� Five members of the University of Colorado community are recipients of the 2014 Thomas Jefferson Award, among the highest honors given at CU, the state鈥檚 flagship university.