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The University of Colorado Art Museum has recently acquired a significant collection of Burmese and Chinese art ranging from the Neolithic Period through the Song Dynasty. A gift from Warren and Shirley King, this unique collection of jade, bronze, stoneware, earthenware, porcelain, and blackware will be readily available to art historians, scholars of Chinese and Burmese culture, ceramic specialists and archaeologists.
Michael Huemer, professor of philosophy at the ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ, is the winner of the inaugural Adams Prize in Philosophy, which is presented by the Taylor Charitable Trust, in partnership with University of North Carolina’s Program in
Wei Zhang, an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ, has won a prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship.Awarded annually since 1955, the fellowships are given to early career
Steven Hayward has been appointed the first Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and Policy, the ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ announced last month.
Sarah James, an assistant professor of classics at the ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ, has been approved as CU’s representative to the Managing Committee of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.
A CU-Boulder anthropologist and a collaborator from Florida have won a $230,000 grant to examine the role of religion in the social and political innovations that led to the emergence of Mesoamerican civilization.- The University of Colorado at Boulder has been awarded $1.4 million for a new study on how changes in land use, forest management and climate may affect trans-basin water diversions in Colorado and other semi-arid regions in the western United
Elisabeth Sheffield, associate professor of English, won a $25,000 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship in Prose this year. Photo by Noah Larsen.In each of the past two years, a CU-Boulder faculty member has won a Creative Writing Fellowship from the
CU-Boulder has hired its first Colorado Chair in Environmental Studies, an endowed chair awarded to Daniel Doak, a conservation biologist known for his quantitative analysis of how different government policies could affect the populations of species ranging from sea otters, California condors, corals, and rare plants.- Two ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ undergraduate student teams have been named among the 10 top winners from a field of 3,697 teams that entered the international Mathematical Contest in Modeling.Results of the 2012 contest were announced this month