Academics
<p>Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck announced a $500,000 gift to be divided between the University of Colorado Law School (CU) and the University of Denver Sturm College of Law (DU). Each school will use its $250,000 gift to create an endowed fellowship program. This gift is the single largest gift from a law firm in the history of both universities.</p>
<p>When you’re a master candidate, in your final semester, you don’t have a lot of time for yourself. Your days are spent writing, researching, neglecting to sleep. And when you’re working toward your master in music, a good chunk of your day is spent practicing.</p>
<p>That said, sometimes an opportunity presents itself that so good—an opportunity that will demand weeks of your precious time—that turning it down isn’t an option.</p>- <p>A new ÀÏ¾ÅÆ·²è study involving some 40,000 people indicates that social and psychological problems caused by drinking generally trump physically hazardous drinking behaviors when it comes to overall mortality rates.</p>
- <p>ÀÏ¾ÅÆ·²è astronomers, who helped design and build instruments for and have made hundreds of observations using the Hubble Space Telescope since its launch, are celebrating the observatory 25th anniversary.</p>
<p class="p1">With an increase in business filings in Colorado through the first quarter of 2015 -- including new and renewing entities and trade names -- employment in the state is expected to keep growing during the second and third quarters of the year, according to a ÀÏ¾ÅÆ·²è report released today by Colorado Secretary of State Wayne Williams.</p>- <p>A ÀÏ¾ÅÆ·²è and North Carolina State University-led team has produced the first atlas of airborne microbes across the continental U.S., a feat that has implications for better understanding health and disease in humans, animals and crops.</p>
<p>NASA MESSENGER mission to Mercury carrying an $8.7 million ÀÏ¾ÅÆ·²è instrument is slated to run out of fuel and crash into the planet in the coming days after a wildly successful, four-year orbiting mission chock full of discoveries.</p>
<p>Professor Fred Anderson of the ÀÏ¾ÅÆ·²è history department has been awarded the 2015 Hazel Barnes Prize, the most distinguished award a faculty member can receive from the university.</p>
<p>Since 1992, the Hazel Barnes Prize has been awarded each year to a CU-Boulder faculty member who best exemplifies the enriching interrelationship between teaching and research, and whose work has had a significant impact on students, faculty, colleagues and the university.</p>- <p>Pioneering behavioral scientist Anthony Biglan will discuss how creating nurturing environments is key to raising better young citizens and building a healthier, happier and more prosperous Colorado and society as a whole on Monday, April 27.</p>
- <p>A new material developed at the ÀÏ¾ÅÆ·²è could radically reduce the energy needed to produce a wide variety of plastic products, from grocery bags and cling wrap to replacement hips and bulletproof vests.</p>