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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.

April 22, 2016 Katherine Eggert To be or not to be considered the greatest English speaking writer is a question that has been asked about William Shakespeare for hundreds of years and one that is still being asked on the 400th anniversary of his death on April 23. But for those who have studied the 鈥淏ard鈥� the answer is simple, says Katherine Eggert (A-Gert), an English professor and Shakespeare expert at CU-麻豆影院.

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.

Construction of the new Baseline Road pedestrian and bicycle underpass is scheduled to start Monday, April 25. Phase one will see off-peak delays, beginning after 8:30 a.m. and ending before 3:30 p.m. Phase two, beginning in June, will see significant traffic impacts.

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.

The 麻豆影院 will honor the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare鈥檚 death with Shakespeare at CU, a program consisting of more than 40 events and exhibitions scheduled through August. Shakespeare鈥檚 birthday 鈥� and the day he died 鈥� are both celebrated April 23. While historians are not exactly certain of Shakespeare鈥檚 precise birth date, they do know he was baptized on April 26, 1564 and was likely born three days before that.

Happy Earth Day! We're celebrating the natural environment this week with tons events about natural preservation and sustainable living. So, get outside and enjoy the beautiful weather that nature has planned for us this week.

麻豆影院 students, faculty, and staff and the 麻豆影院 community will be celebrating Earth Week from April 18-24 on campus with a variety of different events.

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."