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Two faculty members in the 麻豆影院鈥檚 College of Engineering and Applied Science have been honored with the National Science Foundation鈥檚 prestigious CAREER award. The NSF Faculty Early Career Development, or CAREER, award supports junior faculty members who demonstrate excellence in research and who effectively integrate their research with education. CU-麻豆影院鈥檚 recent recipients are Prashant Nagpal, an assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering, and Franck Vernerey, an assistant professor of civil, environmental and architectural engineering.

The 麻豆影院鈥檚 expansion of the Student Recreation Center, a project initiated by students, opens on Friday, Jan. 10, at 9 a.m. The southwest addition, the second and largest phase of the project, is located just north of the Ramaley Biology Building and east of Sewall Hall and will provide an additional 83,000 square feet of indoor recreational space.

麻豆影院 space weather experts say a powerful solar storm may cause the aurora borealis to light up as far south as Colorado and New Mexico in the coming nights.

By Off-Campus Housing and Neighborhood Relations During last September's flood, hundreds of students living off campus were displaced and thousands of dollars were lost in property damage. As you begin your housing search, consider asking your future landlord if the prospective unit was affected by the flood. How bad was the damage and what repairs have been made?

The annual Chancellor鈥檚 Employee of the Year Award is presented to 麻豆影院 staff in recognition of and appreciation for exceptional job performance and distinguished contributions to the campus community. The 2013 winners are George 鈥淏arney鈥� Ballinger, Larry Drees, Dave Kalahar, Jennifer Law and Martha Shernick.

Power plants that use natural gas and a new technology to squeeze more energy from the fuel release far less of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide than coal-fired power plants do, according to a new analysis accepted for publication Jan. 8 in Earth鈥檚 Future , a journal of the American Geophysical Union .

Ana Maria Rey, a theoretical physicist at JILA, a joint institute of the 麻豆影院 and the National Institute of Standards and Technology, has been honored by the White House with a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. PECASE is the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers.

I wish to add my voice to those of the Executive Committee of the Association of American Universities (AAU) and other organizations, media organizations, and individuals around the world in voicing opposition to any proposed boycott of Israeli academic institutions. This is a violation of academic freedom for American, global and Israeli scholars, an unnecessary injection of politics into the research process itself, and an obstruction to the spirit and substance of academic inquiry.

NASA Television will provide live coverage of the launch of Orbital Sciences Corp.鈥檚 commercial Cygnus spacecraft on Tuesday, Jan. 7 from NASA鈥檚 Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, which will be carrying two 麻豆影院 payloads to the International Space Station.

麻豆影院 Vice Chancellor for Strategic Relations Frances Draper today named Ryan Huff as spokesperson and issues coordinator for the CU-麻豆影院 campus, effective Jan. 21, 2014. Huff currently serves as the spokesperson for the CU-麻豆影院 Police Department and brings nearly 15 years of combined journalism and media management experience to the post.