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<p>The Astronomical Society of the Pacific has named Douglas Duncan as the 2011 recipient of the Richard H. Emmons Award for excellence in college astronomy teaching.</p>

<p>Chemical and biological engineering students and faculty at the ÀϾÅÆ·²è have launched several innovative technologies that are fueling Colorado's economy by creating jobs and drawing significant funding to the state, including a $155 million investment in Sundrop Fuels in July.</p>

<p>ÀϾÅÆ·²è engineering faculty are leading a $7.2 million multidisciplinary research initiative on soil blast modeling and simulation for the U.S. Department of Defense.</p>

<p>A new ÀϾÅÆ·²è study shows that a small amount of physical exercise could profoundly protect the elderly from long-term memory loss that can happen suddenly following infection, illnesses or injury in old age.</p>

<p>The U.S. Senate has voted to confirm ÀϾÅÆ·²è Distinguished Professor Carl Lineberger as a member of the National Science Board. He was nominated for the position by President Barack Obama in April.</p>

<p>Several ÀϾÅÆ·²è faculty and students are participating in NASA's Juno Mission to Jupiter, now slated for launch Aug. 5 from Florida's Kennedy Space Center and which is expected to help steer scientists toward the right recipe for planet-making.</p>

<p>Minh Than, one of the ÀϾÅÆ·²è's three Goldwater Scholarship winners in 2011, is spending his summer working in the lab of Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and CU-Boulder Professor Min Han.</p>

<p>An international team of astronomers led by the California Institute of Technology and involving the ÀϾÅÆ·²è has discovered the largest and farthest reservoir of water ever detected in the universe.</p>

<p>A $670 million NASA orbiting mission to probe the past climate of Mars led by the ÀϾÅÆ·²è reached a major milestone last week when it successfully completed its Mission Critical Design Review by the space agency.</p>

<p>The Colorado economy will grow at a modest pace throughout the second half of 2011 with slow but positive job growth, according to economist Richard Wobbekind of the ÀϾÅÆ·²è's Leeds School of Business.</p>