Faculty/Staff Edition - March 10, 2017
Campus Community
Groundbreaking space missions, student success focus of Aerospace Summit
Alumni, industry execs and other space buffs celebrated the state’s growing prominence in aerospace—from probing the Bennu asteroid to an array of industry partnerships—at the second annual ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder Aerospace Summit earlier this week.
¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder takes the gold among bicycle-friendly universities
The League of American Bicyclists has recognized ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder with the Gold Bicycle Friendly University award, placing ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä in a cutting-edge group of colleges and universities across the U.S.Ìýtransforming their campuses and the communities around them.
¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder honored for graduating six physics teachers in 2015–16
The Physics Teacher Education Coalition recently announced ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder's induction into The 5+ Club, a group of institutions recognized for graduating five or more physics teachers in a given year.
Call for nominations: Distinguished Research Lectureship
TheÌýResearch & Innovation Office (RIO) is now accepting nominations for the 2017 Distinguished Research Lectureship, which honors a tenured faculty member recognized for a distinguished body of achievement and prominence.
Research News
Fernbach receives grant to study cognitive basis of extremism
What makes us argue so heatedly over things we know so little about?ÌýPhilip Fernbach, assistant professor of marketing atÌýLeeds School of Business, has received a grantÌýto conduct research exploring how to improve public discourse.
Lactate—long the athlete's bane—could be a key driver of cancer
Research suggests lactate, a metabolic byproduct that can interfere with sports performance, plays a role in cancer formation. And while people who regularly exercise tend to be able to clear lactate, others with a sedentary lifestyle, combined with excess sugar intake, may have a harder time.
Pushing Boundaries
The ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Museum of Natural History herbarium houses more than a half-million grasses, flowers, lichens and mosses—regarded as one of the most important natural history repositories in western North America.
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