Academics
<p>University of Colorado Professor Patty Limerick will review nearly four decades of service as University Fool and reflect on the value of humor on April Fools’ Day.</p>
<p>Eleven ÀÏ¾ÅÆ·²è researchers, including an unprecedented number of engineers, have received the National Science Foundation prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Awards.</p>
<p>In an ongoing effort to help students and families plan, prepare and pay for their education, the ÀÏ¾ÅÆ·²è is implementing new tuition and fee payment plans for the upcoming academic year including fall, spring, summer and annual plans.</p>
<p>A new study by a team of Cassini mission scientists led by the ÀÏ¾ÅÆ·²è have found that microscopic grains of rock detected near Saturn imply hydrothermal activity is taking place within the moon Enceladus.</p>- <p class="p1">No one really knows how the High Plains got so high. ÀÏ¾ÅÆ·²è 70 million years ago, eastern Colorado, southeastern Wyoming, western Kansas and western Nebraska were near sea level. Since then, the region has risen about 2 kilometers, leading to some head scratching at geology conferences.  </p>
- <p>The eastern coastline of Mexico 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 Centro Ecological Akumal (CEA) and the ÀÏ¾ÅÆ·²è.</p>
- <p>The ÀÏ¾ÅÆ·²è will serve as the Science Operations Center for a NASA mission launching this month to better understand the physical processes of geomagnetic storms, solar flares and other energetic phenomena throughout the universe.</p>
- <p>Oil and gas operations in the United States produce about 21 billion barrels of wastewater per year. The saltiness of the water and the organic contaminants it contains have traditionally made treatment difficult and expensive. Engineers at the ÀÏ¾ÅÆ·²è have invented a simpler process that can simultaneously remove both salts and organic contaminants from the wastewater, all while producing additional energy.</p>
- Making more monuments: Just like modern cities, ancient settlements got more productive as they grew<p class="p1">Living in bigger, denser settlements allowed the inhabitants of ancient cities to be more productive, just as is true for modern urbanites, according to a new study by scientists at the ÀÏ¾ÅÆ·²è and the Santa Fe Institute.</p>
<p class="p1">As modern cities grow, they obey certain rules. As the population increases, for example, the settled area becomes denser instead of sprawling outward. This allows people to live closer together, use infrastructure more intensively, interact more frequently, and as a result, produce more per person.</p>
<p>The Leeds School of Business is pleased to announce the launch of a new scholarship program aimed at supporting CU-Boulder employees, allowing them to earn an MBA from the Leeds Evening MBA program.</p>