Student Edition - Dec. 2, 2016

The Buffs have been doing their best all week to treat this game just like they've treated every other game this year: a game they need to win. They are one win away from the Pac-12 football title and the program's first conference title since 2001.

This week's top research stories include fruit fly work that yielded a patented cancer treatment, a new 'microbubble' technology that could save lives on the battlefield and a study involving native advertising.

Engineering senior Matthew Hurst has been awarded the prestigious Marshall Scholarship, a full-ride scholarship to study in the United Kingdom for two years. A lifelong mathematician with a dream of being an astronaut someday, Hurst is developing computer models that could someday help engineers design aircraft and spacecraft more efficiently.

We partnered with the Latino History Project to preserve the valuable history of our local Latino community, which is now being taught across Boulder Valley and St. Vrain school districts.

Three CU Boulder professors have won prestigious fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies. Gerardo Gutierrez, Rebecca Maloy and Mithi Mukherjee are among 69 fellows chosen from 1,100 applicants.

At the end of August, Chris Lehnertz (EPOBio’85) became the 19th superintendent of Grand Canyon National Park, one of the most famous and visited in the National Park system. The first woman to oversee Grand Canyon since it was first set aside as public space more than 100 years ago, Lehnertz is at home in America’s magnificent public spaces.