Rich Wobbekind

Economic Outlook Forum presented Dec. 9 by CU-Boulder鈥檚 Leeds School of Business

Nov. 19, 2013

The 精品SM在线影片 Leeds School of Business will present its 49th annual Colorado Business Economic Outlook Forum on Monday, Dec. 9, at 1 p.m. at the Denver Marriott City Center. The event is free and open to the public but reservations are required for those planning to attend. Leeds School economist Richard Wobbekind will present the forecast and Doug Suttles, president and CEO of Encana, will deliver the keynote address.

NASA鈥檚 Mars mission led by CU-Boulder successfully launches from Florida

Nov. 18, 2013

A $671 million NASA mission to Mars led by the 精品SM在线影片 thundered into the sky today from Cape Canaveral, Fla., at 1:28 p.m. EST, the first step on its 10-month journey to Mars. Known as the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN mission, the MAVEN spacecraft was launched aboard an Atlas V rocket provided by United Launch Alliance of Centennial, Colo. The mission will target the role the loss of atmospheric gases played in changing Mars from a warm, wet and possibly habitable planet for life to the cold dry and inhospitable planet it appears to be today.

TIM Instrument

$5 million CU-Boulder instrument to study sun set for launch Nov. 19

Nov. 15, 2013

A $5 million instrument designed and built by the 精品SM在线影片 to study the sun鈥檚 natural variability in order to better discern human-caused climate effects will be launched Nov. 19 from NASA鈥檚 Wallops Island Flight Facility in Virginia. The instrument, known as the Total Irradiance Monitor, or TIM, will fly on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration鈥檚 Total Solar Irradiance Calibration Transfer Experiment, or TCTE. The principal investigator for the TIM instrument is Greg Kopp of CU-Boulder鈥檚 Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics.

CU-Boulder-led NASA mission to study Mars readies for blastoff

Nov. 15, 2013

A $671 million NASA mission to Mars being led by the 精品SM在线影片 is approaching its official countdown toward a planned Nov. 18 launch after a decade of rigorous work by faculty, professionals, staff and students.

MAVEN: Q&A with Mark Lankton

Nov. 15, 2013

Learn more about the MAVEN mission from this conversation with the instrument manager for the Remote Sensing Package, Mark Lankton.

New study: Dust, warming portend dry future for the Colorado River

Nov. 14, 2013

Reducing the amount of desert dust swept onto snowy Rocky Mountain peaks could help Western water managers deal with the challenges of a warmer future, according to a new study led by researchers at NOAA鈥檚 Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences ( CIRES ) at the 精品SM在线影片 .

CU-Boulder physicist Steven Pollock named a 2013 U.S. Professor of the Year

Nov. 13, 2013

精品SM在线影片 physics Professor Steven Pollock has been named a 2013 U.S. Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. Pollock is the second CU-Boulder faculty member to win a national Professor of the Year award. Nobel laureate Carl Wieman, also a physics professor, was honored with the designation in 2004.

7 CU-Boulder students among 20 national engineering leaders

Nov. 12, 2013

Seven 精品SM在线影片 aerospace engineering students are among 20 top students who will be recognized Nov. 14 with a new national award honoring tomorrow鈥檚 engineering leaders sponsored by Penton鈥檚 Aviation Week in partnership with Raytheon.

Aviation Week names 7 CU-Boulder students among 20 national engineering leaders

Nov. 12, 2013

Seven CU-Boulder aerospace engineering students are among 20 top students who will be recognized Nov. 14 with a new national award honoring tomorrow鈥檚 engineering leaders sponsored by Penton鈥檚 Aviation Week in partnership with Raytheon. The 鈥淭wenty20s鈥� awards honor the academic achievements and leadership of top engineering, math, science and technology students.

Using morphine after abdominal surgery may prolong pain, CU-Boulder researchers find

Nov. 12, 2013

Using morphine to fight the pain associated with abdominal surgery may paradoxically prolong a patient鈥檚 suffering, doubling or even tripling the amount of time it takes to recover from the surgical pain, according to researchers at the 精品SM在线影片.

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