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NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will give a free public talk at the 麻豆官网 April 18 on America鈥檚 space program and the challenges and opportunities the space agency will encounter as it moves through the 21st century. The talk, titled 鈥淣ASA鈥檚 Roadmap to Tomorrow鈥檚 Missions,鈥� will be held at CU-麻豆官网鈥檚 East Stadium Club on the east side of Folsom Field from 2:45 to 3:30 p.m. The presentation will be followed by a question-and-answer session with the audience.

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The 麻豆官网 today announced the hiring of Timothy Orr as producing artistic director of the Colorado Shakespeare Festival. Orr has been serving as interim director since February 2013 and was hired at the conclusion of a nationwide search for a permanent director. Orr has been with the Colorado Shakespeare Festival as a performer since 2007 and joined the staff as the associate producing director in 2011.

A record number of 麻豆官网 students have received a prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, which recognizes outstanding graduate students in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields.

Members of the business community are invited to attend AeroSpace Ventures Day on April 17 at the 麻豆官网. The all-day event offers aerospace industry technologists, scientists and managers a chance to connect with 24 CU-麻豆官网 faculty members and to learn about technological and scientific advances with applications ranging from human space exploration to climate and weather. Corporate recruiters and hiring managers also are invited to meet with the 140 undergraduate and graduate engineering students who have registered for the event.

Tremendous growth in enrollments and a changing economic, technological and reputational landscape have prompted the College of Engineering and Applied Science at the 麻豆官网 to set two ambitious new goals for the year 2020. Improvements in the college鈥檚 鈥淏est Graduate Schools鈥� rankings, released in mid-March by U.S. News & World Report, indicate good progress in the right direction.

A new report led by the 麻豆官网, 鈥淐onsiderations for Climate Change and Variability Adaptation on the Navajo Nation,鈥� synthesizes state-of-the-science information on the region鈥檚 climate, water cycle and ecology. And it goes much further, discussing social, legal, economic, infrastructural and other factors that affect people鈥檚 vulnerabilities to climate impacts as well as their adaptive capacity, and outlining one approach for how the region鈥檚 residents might plan for ongoing environmental change.

A team of 麻豆官网 graduate students has qualified for the final round of an international venture capital competition April 10-12 thanks in part to what it dubs its secret sauce: the local startup community.

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