CU-Boulder Announces Development Of Renewable and Sustainable Energy Initiative

100th Distinguished Research Lectureship Awarded to Professor Fred Anderson

Ford received the national award in recognition of his research to better understand the innermost workings of matter, especially the nature of radioactive decay. He has spent the better part of 30 years working on collider projects, including electron-positron annihilation experiments, from which findings have been used to help piece together clues about the early evolution of the universe.

United Government Of Graduate Students
UGGS Wins Two National Awards
The Graduate School would like to congratulate the United Government of Graduate Students (UGGS) for a very successful fall semester, both here on campus and at the national level.UGGS sponsored several events for graduate students, including a campus-wide graduate student orientation, fall picnic, several coffee and happy hours, and co-sponsored an open forum with UCSU for the 5 candidates for the CU Regent-at-Large position. Learn more.

MEDICINE
Neuroscience: Exploring the Role of Dopamine in the Learning System
The human brain is one of the most complex systems in the natural world. The intricate mass of nerves conducts and controls all of the body's activities, is the center of thought and emotion, and interprets information from each of our senses. One of the most challenging and yet unanswered questions in science is -- how does the brain think? One of many scientists trying to answer this complicated question is Randall O'Reilly, an associate professor of psychology at CU-Boulder who heads the Computational Cognitive Neuroscience lab on campus. Learn more.

"How Humanists and Social Scientists Can Take Advantage of Grant Opportunities at the National Science Foundation" A free lecture by Andrew Light from the Department of Philosophy and Evans School of Public Affairs, University of Washington. Sponsored by the Center for Humanities and the Arts. April 3rd, 2008, 2-4 p.m., UMC 245

CU-Boulder: A Global Research University - A Report of the Task Force on International Graduate Education (downloadable pdf)