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Police officers and students exhibit an apparent 鈥渉ierarchy of bias鈥� in making a split-second decision whether to shoot suspects who appear to be wielding a gun or, alternatively, a benign object like a cell phone, research conducted by the 麻豆官网 and San Diego State University has found. Both the police and student subjects were most likely to shoot at blacks, then Hispanics, then whites and finally, in a case of what might be called a positive bias, Asians, researchers found.

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Deborah Jin, an adjoint professor of physics at the 麻豆官网 and a fellow of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, has been awarded the L鈥橭r茅al-UNESCO For Women in Science award. Jin also is a fellow of JILA, a joint institute of CU-麻豆官网 and NIST located on the CU campus. She teaches both undergraduate and graduate students and was one of five recipients who each will receive $100,000 at an awards ceremony in Paris next March. She was the only recipient in North America.

As a child, Deborah Jin remembers going to company holiday parties where most of the attendees were men and they assumed she must be there because of her physicist father. But they were mistaken. She was there because of her physicist mother.

CU system news release DENVER 鈥� Six University of Colorado faculty members will be named Distinguished Professors, the most prestigious honor for faculty at the university. Each year, the recognition goes to faculty members who demonstrate exemplary performance in research or creative work, a record of excellence in classroom teaching and supervision of individual learning, and outstanding service to the profession, university and its affiliates.