CU-Boulder Announces Development Of Renewable and Sustainable Energy Initiative

100th Distinguished Research Lectureship Awarded to Professor Fred Anderson

The team used measurements taken with the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment, or GRACE, to conclude the Antarctic ice sheet is losing up to 36 cubic miles of ice, or 152 cubic kilometers, annually. By comparison, the city of Los Angeles uses about 1 cubic mile of fresh water annually.

MUSIC
Sometimes the downbeat is upbeat: CU Jazz on tap
Categorizing jazz is not a simple process. From big band swing and small group bebop to Dixieland styles, avant-garde, and fusion, jazz is sometimes predictable and often not so predictable. The jazz ensembles from the CU-Boulder College of Music enjoy this lack of predictability as part of their fascination with jazz. 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)