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CU wins grant to study natural gas development
October 2, 2012 9:32 PM
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) - The University of Colorado Boulder has won a $12 million, five-year grant from the National Science Foundation to study how to maximize benefits of natural gas development while minimizing harms. Professor Joseph Ryan of CU-Boulder's civil, environmental and architectural engineering department will lead a team of... more » -
CU suing over "defective" toilet paper
May 4, 2011 7:32 PM
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) - The University of Colorado at Boulder is suing two companies for what it claims was defective toilet paper that clogged the campus's sewage systems. The Daily Camera reported Wednesday that the university's Board of Regents filed a lawsuit last week in Boulder County District Court against... more » -
CU-Boulder-designed device breaks cosmic record
October 12, 2010 8:28 AM
An instrument designed by University of Colorado-Boulder students has traveled 1.67 billion miles from Earth as it gathers data about grains of dust, the building blocks of the solar system. CU researchers say the dust counter onboard NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto has traveled farther than any other... more » -
Mars mission led by CU-Boulder gets green light
October 6, 2010 8:31 AM
NASA has given the go-ahead to a $438 million mission led by the University of Colorado-Boulder to investigate Mars and the likelihood that it once harbored life. NASA said Tuesday that a review team approved the plans and budget for the project, Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, or MAVEN.... more » -
Colorado State rescinds gun ban after court ruling
May 5, 2010 4:49 PM
Guns and some other weapons will continue to be legal on the Colorado State University System's two campuses. The CSU Board of Governors voted Wednesday to rescind a campus gun ban, citing a Colorado Court of Appeals ruling last month that overturned a similar ban at the University of... more » -
CU Boulder receives $15 million in stimulus money
April 27, 2010 1:58 PM
The University of Colorado at Boulder has received a $15 million grant through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to be used toward the ongoing construction of a biotechnology and biomedical research facility. Faculty and students will use the facility for fundamental research on everything from cancer and cardiovascular... more » -
University of Colorado student-designed satellite wins NASA approval
January 27, 2010 6:05 PM
A cube-shaped communications satellite designed and built by University of Colorado at Boulder students has been selected as one of three university research satellites to be launched into orbit by NASA. The satellite, named Hermes, was designed and built over a period of about two and one-half years. "This... more » -
CU-Boulder gets grant to build tiny spacecraft
December 29, 2009 8:45 AM
The University of Colorado at Boulder has received $840,000 from the National Science Foundation to build a tiny spacecraft to learn more about solar flares and their effect on Earth's atmosphere. The three-year grant will go to CU-Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics and the aerospace engineering sciences department.... more »
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