Top three CU Boulder research stories of the week: Nov. 11 edition
Research at CU Boulder encompasses thousands of scholarly, scientific and creative endeavors at any given time, resulting in new knowledge, technologies and creative work that advance the economy, culture and health of Colorado, the nation and the world. This week's top research stories include a look at how bugs like spiders, cockroaches and beetles may affect human health and quality of life, an outlook on Colorado employment in 2017, and the launch of a new instrument suite to assess space weather.
A new study involving CU Boulder and North Carolina State University highlights the diversity of arthropods found in homes across the United States, a big step in improving our understanding of how bugs like spiders, cockroaches and beetles may affect human health and quality of life.
Modest employment growth to continue into 2017, says CU Boulder report
Colorado employment is poised to modestly expand extending into 2017, according to a University of Colorado Boulder report released today by Colorado Secretary of State Wayne Williams. The quarterly indicators report, prepared by CU Boulder’s Business Research Division at the Leeds School of Business, uses data from the secretary of state’s business registry to report correlations between the data and economic metrics.
Ready for launch: Instrument suite to assess space weather
A multimillion dollar CU Boulder instrument package expected to help scientists better understand potentially damaging space weather is now slated to launch aboard a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellite on Saturday, Nov. 19. Designed and built by CU Boulder’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP), the instrument suite known as the Extreme Ultraviolet and X-ray Irradiance Sensors (EXIS) is the first of four identical packages that will fly on four NOAA weather satellites in the coming decade. EXIS will measure energy output from the sun that can affect satellite operations, telecommunications, GPS navigation and power grids on Earth as part of NOAA’s next-generation Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites-R Series (GOES-R).