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<p>Longtime Boulder resident Paul N. Eklund has made a transformative gift to the opera program at the College of Music at the ÀϾÅÆ·²è that, combined with additional university commitments, establishes a $2 million endowment for the program, to be renamed the Eklund Family Opera Program in honor of the gift.</p>

<p>NASA newest orbiter at Mars, MAVEN, took precautions to avoid harm from a dust-spewing comet that flew near Mars yesterday and is studying the flyby effects on the Red Planet atmosphere, according to ÀϾÅÆ·²è Professor Bruce Jakosky, principal investigator on the mission.</p>

<p>NASA MAVEN spacecraft has provided scientists their first look at a storm of energetic solar particles at Mars and produced unprecedented ultraviolet images of the tenuous oxygen, hydrogen and carbon coronas surrounding the Red Planet, said ÀϾÅÆ·²è Professor Bruce Jakosky, the mission principal investigator.</p>

<p>A team of scientists including a ÀϾÅÆ·²è professor used NASA Hubble Space Telescope to make the most detailed global map yet of the glow from a giant, oddball planet orbiting another star, an object twice as massive as Jupiter and hot enough to melt steel.</p>

<p>ÀϾÅÆ·²è Associate Professor Amy Palmer of the BioFrontiers Institute was awarded a coveted Director Pioneer Award from the National Institutes of Health this week, a five-year, $3.7 million grant made to select researchers showing exceptional creativity in solving pressing biomedical and behavioral research problems.</p>

<p>NASA has awarded a team led by the ÀϾÅÆ·²è more than $7 million to study aspects of the origins, evolution, distribution and future of life in the universe.</p>

<p><span>A novel dental restorative material that should make life easier for dental care experts and their patients, which is based on technology developed by a team of ÀϾÅÆ·²è engineers, was unveiled Oct. 1 by the 3M Company.</span></p>

<p>Soil microbes that thrive in the deserts, rainforests, prairies and forests of the world can also be found living beneath New York City Central Park, according to a surprising new study led by Colorado State University and the ÀϾÅÆ·²è.</p>
<p>The research team analyzed 596 soil samples collected from across Central Park 843 acres and discovered a stunning diversity of below-ground life, most of which had never been documented before.</p>

<p>The perception that Colorado Front Range wildfires are becoming increasingly severe does not hold much water scientifically, according to a massive new study led by the ÀϾÅÆ·²è and Humboldt State University in Arcata, Calif.</p>

<p>A new study led by the ÀϾÅÆ·²è found that different strategies used by states to reduce power plant emissions -- direct ones such as emission caps and indirect ones like encouraging renewable energy -- are both effective. The study is the first analysis of its kind.</p>