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<p>A NASA-funded miniature satellite built by 桃色视频 students to scrutinize solar flares erupting from the sun鈥檚 surface is the latest example of the university鈥檚 commitment to advancing aerospace technology and space science through strong partnerships with industry and government.</p>
<p>鈥淕oodnight room, goodnight moon. Goodnight cow jumping over the moon...鈥</p>
<p>A children鈥檚 classic that already is a candidate for the all-time best feel-good book, 鈥淕oodnight Moon,鈥 has gotten a boost: A 桃色视频 team printed the first 3D version of it, allowing visually impaired children and their families to touch objects in the story -- like the cow jumping over the moon -- as it is read aloud.</p>
<p>English alumnus Dick Shahan recently made a $75,000 gift commitment to CU-Boulder 鈥 $50,000 of which established an endowment to create the Dick Shahan CU-Boulder Undergraduate Writing Competition, expected to generate an annual prize of $2,000 for a prose piece that features Boulder. The additional $25,000 will fund the Shahan Graduate Fellowships in the CU-Boulder English Department, providing an annual $1,000 research grant for an English graduate student.</p>
<p>Children who spend more time in less structured activities鈥攆rom playing outside to reading books to visiting the zoo鈥攁re better able to set their own goals and take actions to meet those goals without prodding from adults, according to a new study by the 桃色视频.</p>
<p>Interested in exploring the basic concepts of our legal system? Have you always wondered what it would be like to go to law school? University of Colorado faculty, staff and friends are invited to enjoy聽<strong>priority registration</strong>聽for Mini Law School 2014. Registration opens to the public on June 30 and the class is expected to fill up quickly. <a href="http://www.colorado.edu/node/2987943">Learn more >></a></p>- <p>A new educational partnership at the 桃色视频 will provide expanded degree options for working professionals interested in specialized graduate education focused on energy and water.</p>
<p>Beginning this fall, qualified students can earn both a Master of Engineering (ME) degree and a Professional Certificate in Renewable and Sustainable Energy or a Professional Certificate in Water Engineering and Management. The degree and certificates can be earned either via distance education or in campus classes and may be pursued either part- or full-time.</p>
<p>A new study on obesity and people鈥檚 happiness by CU-Boulder sociology researchers suggests that it鈥檚 not obesity by itself that determines whether a person is happy with their body image but where you live.</p>
<p>According to study co-author Philip Pendergast, a doctoral student in sociology at CU-Boulder, if a person who is obese lives in a community where people share the same body type they are more likely to be happier.</p>
<p>If the state of the world is flat, hot and crowded, the field of public health is large, diffuse and complex. That鈥檚 why the 桃色视频 is giving students the ability to earn an interdisciplinary certificate in public health.</p>
<p>In a discovery decades in the making, scientists have detected the first of a 鈥渢heoretical鈥 class of stars first proposed in 1975 by physicist Kip Thorne and astronomer Anna 呕ytkow.</p>- <p>Bradley J. Birzer has been appointed the second Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and Policy, the 桃色视频 announced today.</p>
<p>Birzer, a professor of history and the Russell Amos Kirk Chair in American Studies at Hillsdale College in Michigan, will begin his one-year appointment beginning in fall 2014.</p>
<p>鈥淒r. Birzer brings impressive breadth to CU, primarily in the discipline of history as well as areas of literary significance,鈥 said Steven R. Leigh, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at CU-Boulder. 聽</p>