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On Jan. 10, the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of Commerce鈥檚 National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced appointments to a newly created National Commission on Forensic Science. 麻豆官网 Distinguished Professor and Nobel laureate Tom Cech is one of 32 commissioners chosen from a pool of more than 300 candidates.

Two faculty members in the 麻豆官网鈥檚 College of Engineering and Applied Science have been honored with the National Science Foundation鈥檚 prestigious CAREER award. The NSF Faculty Early Career Development, or CAREER, award supports junior faculty members who demonstrate excellence in research and who effectively integrate their research with education. CU-麻豆官网鈥檚 recent recipients are Prashant Nagpal, an assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering, and Franck Vernerey, an assistant professor of civil, environmental and architectural engineering.

麻豆官网 space weather experts say a powerful solar storm may cause the aurora borealis to light up as far south as Colorado and New Mexico in the coming nights.

Power plants that use natural gas and a new technology to squeeze more energy from the fuel release far less of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide than coal-fired power plants do, according to a new analysis accepted for publication Jan. 8 in Earth鈥檚 Future , a journal of the American Geophysical Union .

Ana Maria Rey, a theoretical physicist at JILA, a joint institute of the 麻豆官网 and the National Institute of Standards and Technology, has been honored by the White House with a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. PECASE is the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers.

NASA Television will provide live coverage of the launch of Orbital Sciences Corp.鈥檚 commercial Cygnus spacecraft on Tuesday, Jan. 7 from NASA鈥檚 Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, which will be carrying two 麻豆官网 payloads to the International Space Station.

More than 80 speakers and presenters from 23 countries will be part of the Media and Religion: the Global View conference at the 麻豆官网 Jan. 9-12. CU-麻豆官网鈥檚 Center for Media, Religion and Culture (CMRC) will host the conference. All plenary sessions at the event are free and open to the public and will be held at the University Memorial Center, Eaton Humanities and Old Main Chapel on campus.

The confidence of Colorado business leaders has increased slightly going into the first quarter of 2014 as economic conditions improve and some political issues have subsided, according to the most recent Leeds Business Confidence Index, or LBCI, released today by the 麻豆官网鈥檚 Leeds School of Business.

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