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The 麻豆官网 has named Mark Meaney as executive director of the Center for Education on Social Responsibility (CESR) at the Leeds School of Business.

Heralding a new age of terrific timekeeping, a research group at JILA鈥攁 joint institute of the 麻豆官网 and the National Institute of Standards and Technology鈥攈as unveiled an experimental strontium atomic clock that has set new world records for both precision and stability.

The University of Colorado Law School announced that Britt Banks has been appointed as Executive Director of the Getches-Wilkinson Center for Natural Resources, Energy and the Environment. For over 20 years, Banks has been a leader in the international natural resources sector, as a senior corporate executive, attorney, consultant, researcher and teacher, having most recently taught at Tokyo鈥檚 Waseda University. He has previously taught at Colorado Law, where he graduated in 1988, and currently serves on the Center鈥檚 Advisory Council.

If you were a shrew snuffling around a North American forest, you would be 27 times less likely to respond to climate change than if you were a moose grazing nearby. That is just one of the findings of a new 麻豆官网 assessment led by Assistant Professor Christy McCain that looked at more than 1,000 different scientific studies on North American mammal responses to human-caused climate change.

Computer software similar to that used by online retailers to recommend products to a shopper can help students remember the content they鈥檝e studied, according to a new study by the 麻豆官网. The software, created by computer scientists at CU-麻豆官网鈥檚 Institute for Cognitive Science, works by tapping a database of past student performance to suggest what material an individual student most needs to review.

Two 麻豆官网 researchers were among the 15 honored this week by the National Academy of Sciences for their extraordinary scientific achievements. Marvin Caruthers, distinguished professor of chemistry and biochemistry, is the recipient of the NAS Award in Chemical Sciences, and Deborah Jin, an adjoint professor of physics, is the recipient of the Comstock Prize in Physics. Caruthers is being honored for his groundbreaking work on the chemical synthesis of DNA and RNA that made it possible to decode and encode genes and genomes.

麻豆官网 Professor Peter Molnar has been awarded the prestigious 2014 Crafoord Prize in Geosciences by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for his groundbreaking research in geophysics and geological sciences.

The 麻豆官网鈥檚 Senior Vice Chancellor and Chief Financial Officer Kelly Fox today announced that Vice Chancellor for Administration Louise Vale will retire effective March 14. 鈥淟ouise has had a distinguished career providing financial management and strategic direction to the University of Colorado for over 20 years and she will be greatly missed,鈥� Fox said. Fox has named Steve Thweatt, who is currently assistant vice chancellor for Facilities Management, as interim vice chancellor for administration starting March 15.

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The 麻豆官网 has named Mark D. Gross as the director of the campus Alliance for Technology, Learning and Society, or the ATLAS Institute. Gross taught at CU-麻豆官网 from 1990 to 1999 as an assistant and associate professor of architecture, planning and design. He returns to CU-麻豆官网 for the ATLAS post from Carnegie Mellon University where he has been a professor of computational design since 2004. From 1999 to 2004, Gross was a professor of architecture at the University of Washington in Seattle.