Education & Outreach

  • <p>University of Colorado Boulder faculty and students are primed to get back in action following the Easter restart of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s most powerful atom smasher located near Geneva, Switzerland, after a two-year hiatus.</p>
  • <p>The self-organization properties of DNA-like molecular fragments four billion years ago may have guided their own growth into repeating chemical chains long enough to act as a basis for primitive life, says a new study by the University of Colorado Boulder and the University of Milan.</p>
  • Enceladus
    <p>A new study by a team of Cassini mission scientists led by the University of Colorado Boulder have found that microscopic grains of rock detected near Saturn imply hydrothermal activity is taking place within the moon Enceladus.</p>
  • <p>The eastern coastline of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, a mecca for tourists, may have been walloped by a tsunami between 1,500 and 900 years ago, says a new study involving Mexico’s Centro Ecological Akumal (CEA) and the University of Colorado Boulder.</p>
  • <p>Two students and two faculty members from the University of Colorado community have been named recipients of the 2015 Thomas Jefferson Award, among the highest honors given at ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ, the state’s largest institution of higher education.</p>
  • <p>Two University of Colorado Boulder programs that teach kids to code have received Google RISE Awards to support their efforts to attract girls and underrepresented minorities to computer science.</p>
    <p>The two programs are the Scalable Game Design project, which hooks kids on coding by empowering them to build their own video games, and AspireIT, which connects high school and college women with K-12 girls interested in computing.</p>
  • <p>The University of Colorado Boulder is ranked No. 6 in the nation for graduates serving as Peace Corps volunteers with 62 alumni currently serving around the world, the Peace Corps announced today.</p>
    <p>In the annual Top Colleges list, ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ-Boulder has held a position in the top eight nationally among large institutions for the past 13 years, ranking in the top three for nine of those years. ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ-Boulder also has been the state leader among Colorado institutions of similar size each year since 2003.</p>
  • <p>While you might think a person shaking her phone or tablet from side to side is having issues with the device, she might actually be playing a game that has her mimicking a steering wheel motion as part of a language lesson.</p>
    <p>The game <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nano-nano-learn-spanish/id917320724?mt=8">Nano Nano</a> for mobile devices, created by two University of Colorado Boulder graduate students and released last week, is the first app to incorporate gesturing with language learning -- for good reason.</p>
  • <p>The Tibetan Association of Colorado (TAC) and the University of Colorado Boulder will co-host a campus visit of His Holiness the Dalai Lama on Oct. 20 and 21, 2015, both groups announced today.</p>
    <p>A schedule of events at ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ-Boulder is still being finalized. The schedule and ticket information will be announced in the months ahead.</p>
  • <p>Two new studies involving the University of Colorado Boulder and the University of Queensland (UQ) in Brisbane, Australia have identified a unique molecule that not only gobbles up bad cells, but also has the ability to repair damaged nerve cells.</p>
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