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Michael Huemer asks his students to imagine being a neighborhood vigilante. Suppose, he says, you live in a crime-ridden neighborhood, and nothing’s being done about it. So you hunt down criminals and lock them in your basement.After awhile, you
John Hall, a University of Colorado Nobel Prize laureate and member of the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, has won a 2010 Governor’s Award for High-Impact Research.In a ceremony in October, Hall accepted the Foundational Technology- Highly ranked departments say they’re gratified but not surprisedA number of the University of Colorado at Boulder’s doctoral programs, including those in geography, integrative physiology psychology and neuroscience and astrophysical and planetary
The Department of Physics is pleased to present the University of Colorado’s first-ever Clare Boothe Luce Professorship Award to Assistant Professor Cindy Regal.According to the Henry Luce Foundation Web site, the Clare Boothe Luce Award is designed
The University of Colorado Board of Regents has bestowed its highest faculty honor, the designation of distinguished professor, on Margaret Tolbert, a chemistry professor. Two other CU professors also gained this distinction.Distinguished professors
Jose L. Jimenez, Ph.D., an associate professor of chemistry and a fellow of the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado at Boulder, has been awarded the 2010 Rosenstiel Award from the University
The words of Marilyn Krysl’s grandparents, who read the Bible aloud every morning before breakfast, still echo in her mind. And Jesus said… . And Paul said… . Thou shalt and thou shalt not… . There is a time to sow and a time to reap.Such words
University of Colorado Professors Margaret Murnane and Henry Kapteyn have won a prestigious award for groundbreaking strides in laser science.The pair has won the 2010 Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science from the American Physical Society, an
Nathan Hale, the famous American revolutionary, was hanged by the British in 1776 for being a spy and is reputed to have eyed the noose with this stoic comment: “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”Moses Dunbar, a little-
James P. Syvitski, a professor of geological sciences at the University of Colorado, has won the A.G. Huntsman Award in Marine Science in recognition of his contributions to marine geoscience.The A.G. Huntsman Award was presented by the Royal