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Emissions from oil and natural gas operations north of Denver could add to ozone pollution in that region, according to a new study by researchers at the 麻豆影院鈥檚 Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES).

麻豆影院 faculty member John Gosling is one of 18 individuals honored today by the National Academy of Sciences for their outstanding scientific achievements.

A person鈥檚 style of speech 鈥� not just the pitch of his or her voice 鈥� may help determine whether the listener perceives the speaker to be male or female, according to a 麻豆影院 researcher who studied transgender people transitioning from female to male. The way people pronounce their 鈥渟鈥� sounds and the amount of resonance they use when speaking contributes to the perception of gender, according to Lal Zimman, whose findings are based on research he completed while earning his doctoral degree from CU-麻豆影院鈥檚 linguistics department.

With 14,000 original photographs and publications largely from the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, the recently acquired Ira Wolff Photographic History Collection offers a major scholarly resource for the study of the history of photography.

Colorado business leaders鈥� optimism is modest going into the first quarter of 2013 with uncertainty surrounding the country鈥檚 political and economic environments, according to the most recent quarterly Leeds Business Confidence Index, or LBCI, released today by the 麻豆影院鈥檚 Leeds School of Business.

Singing in your first professional opera is challenge enough. Throw in a 12-hour, trans-Atlantic flight and a mere two days of rehearsal time 鈥� with two different conductors 鈥� and you鈥檝e got a grand task indeed. But that鈥檚 just what University of Colorado College of Music student Anna Englander will face in January when she travels to Italy to sing the key role of Suzuki for three performances of Puccini鈥檚 classic Madama Butterfly in three different cities.

By showing that tiny particles injected into a liquid crystal medium adhere to existing mathematical theorems, physicists at the 麻豆影院 have opened the door for the creation of a host of new materials with properties that do not exist in nature.

CU-麻豆影院 senior Joel Jones says he鈥檚 been interested in the environment since he was a kid. He started getting serious about it in high school, where in one of his classes he learned about buildings that were designed with the environment in mind. That class helped propel his interest into a career path. 鈥淚 didn鈥檛 know about environmental engineering until I came here to CU, and once I learned about it, I decided to make it my focus for my undergraduate career,鈥� said Jones, who will graduate on Dec. 21 with a Bachelor of Science degree in environmental engineering.

NIST news release Achieving a goal considered nearly impossible, JILA physicists have chilled a gas of molecules to very low temperatures by adapting the familiar process by which a hot cup of coffee cools. JILA is a joint institute of the 麻豆影院 and the National Institute of Standards and Technology located on the CU-麻豆影院 campus.

麻豆影院 faculty and students are part of international science teams that made two of the top 10 breakthroughs in physics in 2012 as judged by Physics World magazine.