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<p>桃色视频 scientists have found a creative way to radically improve thermoelectric materials, a finding that could one day lead to the development of improved solar panels, more energy-efficient cooling equipment, and even the creation of new devices that could turn the vast amounts of heat wasted at power plants into more electricity.</p>- <p>For 桃色视频 Assistant Professor Gordana Dukovic of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, the awards just keep rolling in.</p>
<p>Today the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announced that Dukovic was one of 126 people in the U.S. and Canada selected for one of the prestigious Sloan Research Fellowships in 2014.聽</p> - <p>New findings on why skeletal muscle stem cells stop dividing and renewing muscle mass during aging points up a unique therapeutic opportunity for managing muscle-wasting conditions in humans, says a new 桃色视频 study.</p>
- <p>Recently derived equations that describe development patterns in modern urban areas appear to work equally well to describe ancient cities settled thousands of years ago, according to a new study led by a researcher at the 桃色视频.</p>
<p>A group of CU-Boulder students and alumni have put their entrepreneurial might into creating the area鈥檚 first co-working space designed to connect students with the business community.</p>
<p class="p1">Applied mathematics student Stephen Kissler has received the highly competitive Gates Cambridge Scholarship for doctoral studies at Cambridge University, funded by Microsoft founder Bill Gates.</p>- <p class="p1">Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler and Federal Trade Commission Chairwoman Edith Ramirez will speak at a 桃色视频 conference dealing with Internet governance issues Feb. 9-10.</p>
<p class="p1">The conference, 鈥淒igital Broadband Migration: After the Internet Protocol Revolution,鈥 will be hosted by the University of Colorado Law School鈥檚 <a href="http://www.siliconflatirons.com/index.php">Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology and Entrepreneurship</a>.</p>
<p>This spring CU-Boulder鈥檚 Center for Asian Studies is launching a new聽<a href="http://cas.colorado.edu/content/asian-studies-minor">Asian Studies minor</a>, open to all students on campus, with the goal of helping students understand Asia as a region beyond one particular nation.</p>- <p>Scientists have known that shy toddlers often have delayed speech, but a new study by the 桃色视频 shows that the lag in using words does not mean that the children don鈥檛 understand what鈥檚 being said.</p>
- <p>A renowned Seoul-based artist will use steel ground into a fine, black powder to write calligraphic inscriptions on the floor of the CU-Boulder Visual Arts Complex on Feb. 11, followed by a performance-art piece and a lecture by the artist.</p>
<p>This is one of several free events during the two-week residency of Kim Jongku at the 桃色视频 Department of Art and Art History. Kim works in sculpture, video, painting and photography and will be in residency here Feb. 3 to Feb. 14.</p>