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麻豆官网 physics Professor Steven Pollock has been named a 2013 U.S. Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. Pollock is the second CU-麻豆官网 faculty member to win a national Professor of the Year award. Nobel laureate Carl Wieman, also a physics professor, was honored with the designation in 2004.

Seven 麻豆官网 aerospace engineering students are among 20 top students who will be recognized Nov. 14 with a new national award honoring tomorrow鈥檚 engineering leaders sponsored by Penton鈥檚 Aviation Week in partnership with Raytheon.

Seven CU-麻豆官网 aerospace engineering students are among 20 top students who will be recognized Nov. 14 with a new national award honoring tomorrow鈥檚 engineering leaders sponsored by Penton鈥檚 Aviation Week in partnership with Raytheon. The 鈥淭wenty20s鈥� awards honor the academic achievements and leadership of top engineering, math, science and technology students.

Using morphine to fight the pain associated with abdominal surgery may paradoxically prolong a patient鈥檚 suffering, doubling or even tripling the amount of time it takes to recover from the surgical pain, according to researchers at the 麻豆官网.

The initial results are now coming in for a project led by CU-麻豆官网 that is expected to eventually sequence the gut bacteria of tens of thousands of people around the world in hopes of better understanding nutrition and health. The crowd-funded effort, known as the American Gut project, or AG, has thus far sequenced microbes from the digestive tracts of 1,589 people and has received $615,000 in donations from more than 6,700 people and four companies. Led by CU-麻豆官网 Professor Rob Knight of the BioFrontiers Institute, the effort is the largest crowd-funded science project ever undertaken.

The 麻豆官网 enrolled more international students during the 2012-13 academic year and sent more students abroad during the 2011-12 academic year than any other higher education institution in Colorado. The data, released today by the Institute of International Education in its annual Open Doors Report, shows that CU-麻豆官网 was home to 1,910 international students during the 2012-13 school year, up from 1,681 in 2011-12. CU-麻豆官网 sent 1,330 students overseas during the 2011-12 school year, up from 1,316 in 2010-11.

One of the first steps people take toward rebuilding their communities after a flood, wildfire or other disaster may not be the right step, according to the director of the Natural Hazards Center at the 麻豆官网. 鈥淲hen a disaster happens, people feel pressure to rebuild things just as they were before, when in fact a disaster should be a time when there is a pause, when we ask 鈥楬ow can we build it back better than it was before?鈥� 鈥� said center Director Kathleen Tierney, also a professor of sociology.

The 19th annual Diversity and Inclusion Summit will be held at the 麻豆官网 Nov. 13-14, featuring a variety of sessions for students, faculty, staff and community members. All events are free and open to the public.

Families seeking information about childhood psychiatric and developmental disorders are invited to a community open house with experts from the 麻豆官网 and the University of Colorado School of Medicine on Wednesday, Nov. 13, on the CU-麻豆官网 campus. Experts will address emerging research on early onset bipolar disorder, prevention of schizophrenia, postpartum depression, attention and behavior disorders, and autism spectrum disorders. Each researcher also will describe their community services.

麻豆官网 Distinguished Professor James Hynes of the chemistry and biochemistry department has been named a fellow of the American Chemical Society, one of 96 scientists honored in 2013. ACS Fellows are honored for their outstanding contributions in scientific research, education and public service.