Campus News Briefs – Summer 2014
Digits
Pearl Street
1891
is the year the horse-drawn streetcar was introduced.
1908
is when electric streetcars of the Interurban railroad began carrying passengers around town and to and from Denver.
1930s
were when storefronts on Pearl Street were lowered to be more modern.
1976
was when Pearl Street was closed to traffic between 11th and 15th streets.
1977
is the year the Pearl Street Mall was dedicated.
115
is the number of eclectic dining options in downtown Boulder today.
1 million
and more visitors visit the mall every year.
Source: Silvia Pettem (Psych’69) and Downtown Boulder
A Change in the Amazon Basin
The ecosystems in the Amazon Basin may release more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than they absorb, according to a study co-led by CU-Boulder researchers.
The reason? A changing climate.
Researchers analyzed carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide from weekly air samples collected via aircraft for two years. In 2010, an especially dry year, the carbon levels were greater in the atmosphere than those absorbed by and stored in vegetation. However, the next year was wet, which yielded a carbon-neutral Amazon, meaning the region was neither adding nor removing carbon from the atmosphere.
“If these trends continue, it could accelerate global warming,” says John Miller, co-lead author and CU-Boulder scientist.
Heard Around Campus
"Getting something off this planet is really hard, and to know that you have students at CU who really dedicated themselves to doing this is great."
– Charles Bolden, NASA deputy administrator, referring to the CU-Boulder-led mission to Mars while speaking on campus in April.
Coloradan Magazine Wins Gold International Award
In June the Coloradan magazine won gold from the , one of the world’s largest nonprofit educational associations.
The category was “College and University General Interest Magazines with circulations of 75,000 and greater.”
The Coloradan tied with Pegasus from the University of Central Florida.
Wake Forest won second with University of Chicago and Stanford tying for third.
Photography © iStock.com/FredFroese