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July 24, 2008

CU Political Science Professor Comments On The Presidential Candidates And Their Platforms Over the course of the next several months, presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama will try to convince voters that their ideas and policies are best for the United States.

CU-Boulder Professor Analyzes Role Of Social Media In Disaster Response And Recovery Social media and technologies that support peer-to-peer communication are being used in increasingly creative ways in the aftermath of disasters by people who are either seeking or sharing information that is unavailable from more traditional sources, research by a University of Colorado at Boulder faculty member has found.

CU, NOAA Researchers To Fly Unmanned Planes Over Greenland Ice Sheet To Monitor Melting University of Colorado and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration researchers hoping for a unique glimpse into the workings of the massive Greenland ice sheet are undertaking the first unmanned aerial survey of the island's fast-flowing outlet glacier region.

CU-Boulder Chancellor Peterson Lauds Nomination Of CU Legal Counsel Christine Arguello To The Federal Bench University of Colorado at Boulder Chancellor G.P. "Bud" Peterson today praised the White House's nomination of Christine Arguello to fill a vacancy on the bench of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado.

Slow But Positive Colorado Job Growth Expected In Second Half Of 2008, CU-Boulder Economist Says Colorado's economy will slow down in the second half of 2008, but overall job growth will still remain positive for the year, according to Richard Wobbekind, an economist with the University of Colorado at Boulder's Leeds School of Business.

ConocoPhillips Announces Partnership With Colorado Center For Biorefining And Biofuels ConocoPhillips announced today it has signed a $5 million, multiyear sponsored research agreement with the Colorado Center for Biorefining and Biofuels, a research center of the Colorado Renewable Energy Collaboratory, to develop new ways to convert biomass into low-carbon transportation fuels.

Species Extinction Threat Underestimated Due To Math Glitch, Says CU-Boulder Study Extinction risks for natural populations of endangered species are likely being underestimated by as much as 100-fold because of a mathematical "misdiagnosis," according to a new study led by a University of Colorado at Boulder researcher.

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