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<p>Before Courtnie Paschall touched down at the ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ, she’d graduated from the Naval Academy (‘08), attained the rank of lieutenant in the U.S. Navy and undergone years of flight training.</p>
<p>Paschall graduates on May 9 with a degree in neuroscience and a minor in electrical engineering. She earned the distinction of graduating summa cum laude and was named the Outstanding Graduate for the College of Arts and Sciences for spring 2015.</p>

<p>Work and play collide in the lives of students in CU’s Theatre and Dance Department, where self-expression is the primary driver of professional development.</p>

<p>A new study appearing this week in the scientific journal eLIFE about the rapid evolution of small viruses that infect bacteria includes 59 ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ co-authors, all of whom conducted research for the paper as freshmen.</p>

<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’s 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’s in music, a good chunk of your day is spent practicing.</p>
<p>That said, sometimes an opportunity presents itself that’s so good—an opportunity that will demand weeks of your precious time—that turning it down isn’t an option.</p>

<p>A new ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ 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>ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ 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’s 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 ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ report released today by Colorado Secretary of State Wayne Williams.</p>

<p>A ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ 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’s MESSENGER mission to Mercury carrying an $8.7 million ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ 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>