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July 13, 2015 Beth Cervelli When the New Horizons spacecraft encounters Pluto early tomorrow morning several CU-麻豆影院 alumni will realize a decade full of dreams and no one more so than Beth Cervelli. Cervelli, who is a flight software engineer at CU-麻豆影院鈥檚 Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, or LASP, is one of a number of CU-麻豆影院 students who more than a decade ago built the Student Dust Collector instrument aboard New Horizons.

After a nine-year journey of 3 billion miles, a piano-sized, power-packed NASA spacecraft has an upcoming date with history that some 麻豆影院 students, faculty and alumni wouldn鈥檛 miss for the world.

Southern Californians and writers love to blame the hot, dry Santa Ana winds for tense, ugly moods, and the winds have long been associated with destructive wildfires. Now, NOAA researchers have fo und that on occasion, the winds have an accomplice with respect to fires, at least: Natural atmospheric events known as stratospheric intrusions, which bring extremely dry air from the upper atmosphere down to the surface, adding to the fire danger effects of the Santa Anas, and exacerbating some air pollution episodes.

This summer, middle and high school students are helping build and test 3-D structures that complement and mimic the cutting-edge 鈥榩hoto origami鈥� research conducted at the 麻豆影院.

Welcome new students! College is an exciting time to meet new people from many backgrounds and different ways of thinking, to learn more about who you are, and to think critically about your long-held beliefs, keeping some and revising others.

Deb Coffin has been appointed as the vice chancellor for advancement, effective July 13, Chancellor Philip P. DiStefano announced Wednesday. The position is the chief fundraising officer for the CU-麻豆影院 campus.

Two of the five recipients of the 2015 Fulbright-National Geographic Digital Storytelling Fellowship are CU-麻豆影院 alumni. Ari Beser (PolSci鈥�11) and Ryan T. Bell (Hist鈥�01) will study and document international stories over the next year.

麻豆影院 Chancellor Philip P. DiStefano today announced the appointment of Deborah 鈥淒eb鈥� Coffin as vice chancellor for advancement, effective July 13. The position is the chief fundraising officer for the CU-麻豆影院 campus.

The confidence of Colorado business leaders dipped slightly though remained optimistic going into the third quarter of 2015, according to the Leeds Business Confidence Index released by CU-麻豆影院鈥檚 Leeds School of Business.

An international research team led by the 麻豆影院 and the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, has discovered a milk-and ochre-based paint dating to 49,000 years ago that inhabitants may have used to adorn themselves with or to decorate stone or wooden slabs.