Academics
<p>Children consume more low-nutrition, high-calorie food such as cookies and candy after observing seemingly overweight cartoon characters, according to a first-of-its-kind study led by the ÀϾÅÆ·²è.</p>
<p>After a nine-year journey of 3 billion miles, a piano-sized, power-packed NASA spacecraft has an upcoming date with history that some ÀϾÅÆ·²è students, faculty and alumni wouldn’t miss for the world.</p>
<p>This summer, middle and high school students are helping build and test 3-D structures that complement and mimic the cutting-edge ‘photo origami’ research conducted at the ÀϾÅÆ·²è.</p>
<p>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-Boulder campus. </p>
<p>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-Boulder Leeds School of Business.</p>- <p>The moon is engulfed in a permanent but lopsided dust cloud that increases in density when annual events like the Geminids spew shooting stars, according to a new study led by ÀϾÅÆ·²è.</p>
<p>ÀϾÅÆ·²è Provost Russell L. Moore today announced that Lorrie Shepard, dean of the School of Education, will retire effective May 31, 2016, and that a national search has been launched to find her replacement.</p>
<p>The economic impact of the Energy Department National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) was $872.3 million nationwide in fiscal year 2014, according to a study by CU-Boulder's Leeds School of Business.</p>
<p>A consortium led by the ÀϾÅÆ·²è has received permission from the Federal Aviation Administration to start flying drones over parts of Texas and Oklahoma this spring in the heart of Tornado Alley to conduct weather research.</p>
<p>A ÀϾÅÆ·²è instrument has been selected to fly on a NASA mission to Jupiter icy moon, Europa, which is believed to harbor a subsurface ocean that may provide conditions suitable for life.</p>