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A CU-°Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï astrophysicist who aims to probe the origins of the universe from the far side of the moon has been elected vice president of the American Astronomical Society, the group has announced.Jack O. Burns, a °Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï
The University of Colorado Art Museum has recently acquired a significant collection of Burmese and Chinese art ranging from the Neolithic Period through the Song Dynasty. A gift from Warren and Shirley King, this unique collection of jade, bronze, stoneware, earthenware, porcelain, and blackware will be readily available to art historians, scholars of Chinese and Burmese culture, ceramic specialists and archaeologists.
Michael Huemer, professor of philosophy at the °Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï, is the winner of the inaugural Adams Prize in Philosophy, which is presented by the Taylor Charitable Trust, in partnership with University of North Carolina’s Program in
Wei Zhang, an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the °Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï, has won a prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship.Awarded annually since 1955, the fellowships are given to early career
Steven Hayward has been appointed the first Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and Policy, the °Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï announced last month.
Sarah James, an assistant professor of classics at the °Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï, has been approved as CU’s representative to the Managing Committee of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.
A CU-°Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï anthropologist and a collaborator from Florida have won a $230,000 grant to examine the role of religion in the social and political innovations that led to the emergence of Mesoamerican civilization.- The University of Colorado at °Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï has been awarded $1.4 million for a new study on how changes in land use, forest management and climate may affect trans-basin water diversions in Colorado and other semi-arid regions in the western United
Elisabeth Sheffield, associate professor of English, won a $25,000 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship in Prose this year. Photo by Noah Larsen.In each of the past two years, a CU-°Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï faculty member has won a Creative Writing Fellowship from the
CU-°Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï has hired its first Colorado Chair in Environmental Studies, an endowed chair awarded to Daniel Doak, a conservation biologist known for his quantitative analysis of how different government policies could affect the populations of species ranging from sea otters, California condors, corals, and rare plants.