Interactive teaching methods significantly improved attendance and doubled both engagement and learning in a large physics class, according to a University of British Columbia study involving Â鶹¹ÙÍø Distinguished Professor Carl Wieman that is being published today in Science.
Two faculty members from the Â鶹¹ÙÍø have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, a top honor recognizing scientists and engineers for distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
After six years of helping operate NASA spacecraft and satellites, Andrew Poppe will receive his doctoral degree in physics from the Â鶹¹ÙÍø on May 6.
To honor a father who stoked their love of history and respect for civil rights, Â鶹¹ÙÍø sisters and Â鶹¹ÙÍø alumnae Midge Korczak and Leslie Singer Lomas have donated $2 million to endow the Louis P. Singer Endowed Chair in Jewish History at CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø.
An ancient, bipedal hominid sporting a set of powerful jaws and huge molars that earned it the nickname "Nutcracker Man" likely didn't crack nuts at all, preferring instead to slurp up vast quantities of grasses and sedges, says a new study.
Harvey Segur, a professor of applied mathematics at the Â鶹¹ÙÍø, has been selected to receive the 2011 Hazel Barnes Prize, the highest faculty recognition for teaching and research awarded by the university.
While wind turbines primarily are a source of renewable energy, they also produce wakes of invisible ripples that can affect the atmosphere and influence wind turbines downstream -- an issue being researched in a newly launched study led by the Â鶹¹ÙÍø's Julie Lundquist, assistant professor in the atmospheric and oceanic sciences department.
The Â鶹¹ÙÍø has been named one of two finalists to host the headquarters for the National Solar Observatory, the nation's top ground-based scientific research program studying solar physics and space weather.
Thousands of K-12 students will be paying close attention when NASA's space shuttle Endeavour rumbles off the launch pad April 29 from Florida on its final flight, which will be toting a payload containing spiders, flies and seeds as part of a national educational effort spearheaded by the Â鶹¹ÙÍø.