University of Colorado at Boulder physics Professor Noel Clark has won the American Physical Society's 2006 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize in recognition of his work in liquid crystals.
Clark is the first CU-Boulder professor to receive the national award given for research in condensed matter physics. The condensed matter field, the largest within physics, involves the study of the properties of liquids, solids and the "in between" liquid crystal phases.
A University of Colorado student representing the school's first-place Solar Decathlon team has been invited to testify before the energy subcommittee of the U.S. House Committee on Science Wednesday.
Jeff Lyng, a graduate student in the civil, environmental and architectural engineering department who served as project manager, will speak at a hearing titled "Winning Teams and Innovative Technologies from the 2005 Solar Decathlon."
Five University of Colorado at Boulder faculty have been elected Fellows of the prestigious American Association for the Advancement of Science for 2005.
A total of 376 individuals were elected to AAAS this year by their science peers, according to the association. The new AAAS fellows were selected for their efforts to advance science or foster applications that are deemed scientifically or socially distinguished.
University of Colorado at Boulder Professor Erika Doss will give the Graduate School's 98th Distinguished Research Lecture on Nov. 8 titled "Memorial Mania: Monuments and Memory in Today's America."
The talk is free and open to the public and will be held at 5:30 p.m. in room 250 of Ramaley Biology, located just northeast of Norlin Library. The Graduate School's Council on Research and Creative Work is sponsoring the talk.
As winter approaches, its short dark days can give some people the blues and in others triggers depression, affecting everything from their work to their love lives.
"When the days get shorter and there is less light, people's biological systems naturally slow down, causing them to want to sleep more and crave sweet and starchy foods," said David Miklowitz, a professor of clinical psychology at the University of Colorado at Boulder. "Many people experience this, and it is typically called the winter blues."
Note to Editors: Interviews with speakers can be arranged by contacting Mindy Pantiel at (303) 443-4862. A digital photo of Simon Deng is available by calling Mike Liguori in the News Services Office at (303) 492-3117.
A former Sudanese child slave and a former U.S. Marine captain who witnessed the genocide in that North African nation will be among the speakers at the Sudan Awareness Conference Nov. 1-3 hosted by the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Some of the best and brightest computer programmers in the Rocky Mountain region will face off Oct. 29 in another all-out "battle of the brains" contest of logic, strategy and mental endurance at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
The 30th annual Association for Computing Machinery's International Collegiate Programming Contest, sponsored by IBM, is the oldest and largest programming contest in the world with more than 5,000 teams competing worldwide this fall.
Several offices at the University of Colorado at Boulder are pledging money totaling $10,000 to bolster the Boulder County Crime Stoppers reward for information leading to an arrest in recent GHB, or "date rape," drugging cases in Boulder.
As CU-Boulder's Office of Discrimination and Harassment initiates the process of training faculty and staff to identify, and prevent, workplace discrimination and harassment, the Office of Judicial Affairs will focus on cases involving students, and will face some issues unique to students in the process.
Author and naturalist Terry Tempest Williams will be honored by the University of Colorado at Boulder's Center of the American West on Nov. 2 at 7 p.m.
The center will present Williams with its highest recognition, the Wallace Stegner Award. The free public event will be in the University Memorial Center's Glenn Miller Ballroom. Williams also will be available to sign books at a reception before the event at 5 p.m. Given Williams' popularity, audience members are encouraged to arrive early for the reception and award presentation.
Faculty sources for the news media. See listing
Facts and statistics about CU-Boulder
More
Sign up today for real-time info about campus closures, and other emergencies.
