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The IRB has posted updated guidance documents regarding Research in Public Schools, IRB Authorization Agreements, and the use of Deception and Incomplete Disclosure in Research. Check out the Guidance Documents page to see these new guides.

The new MENV Environmental Entrepreneurship specialization is tailored to address the needs of aspiring entrepreneurs and business leaders who are driven to work at the intersection of mission, profit, and environmental responsibility.

When : Saturday, April 22nd, 2017. Pre-march activities begin at 9:30 am. Speakers begin at 12:00 pm. Where : Civic Center Park, Denver, CO The Denver March for Science is a nonpartisan celebration of our passion for science and a call to support and safeguard the scientific community. From the...

The new Center for the Study of Origins, a Grand Challenge initiative, provides "an interdisciplinary nexus for humanists, social scientists and natural scientists to engage in exciting and inspirational opportunities to address origins theories from a variety of perspectives," says Provost Russell Moore.

CU Boulder is participating in a cloud-seeding effort, launched this month, to increase winter snowfall in the mountains of southwest Idaho with hopes of ultimately increasing power generation by hydroelectric dams.

Distinguished Professors Leslie Leinwand (Chief Scientific Officer, BioFrontiers Institute; Professor, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology) and Chris Bowman (James and Catherine Patten endowed chair of the Chemical and Biological Engineering Department) have been named fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).

Clint Carroll will help to preserve tribal tradition and knowledge for future generations through the Faculty Early Career Development Award, a five-year grant from the National Science Foundation.

Several students are playing significant roles in the upcoming launch of a SpaceX rocket carrying two CU Boulder payloads – one designed to help researchers better understand and perhaps outsmart dangerous infections like MRSA, another to help increase the proliferation of stem cells in space, a potential boon for biomedical therapy on Earth.

University of Colorado Boulder students and professionals will operate an upcoming NASA mission that will investigate the mysterious aspects of some of the most extreme and exotic astronomical objects like stellar and supermassive black holes, neutron stars and pulsars.

A team of University of Colorado Boulder engineers has developed a scalable manufactured metamaterial — an engineered material with extraordinary properties not found in nature — to act as a kind of air conditioning system for structures. It has the ability to cool objects even under direct sunlight with zero energy and water consumption.