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Middle and high school teachers from across the Front Range will learn how to teach key math concepts to their students while introducing them to video game programming during an April 21 workshop at the University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder. Emmanuel Schanzer of Harvard University will lead the workshop sponsored by Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ-Boulder’s Department of Computer Science. Schanzer is the creator of Bootstrap, a computer programming tool that uses algebra to create images and animations.

Engineering students at the University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder will host the annual College Egg Drop on April 19 as part of their annual celebration of Engineering Days. The egg drop, which starts at 1 p.m. on the west side of the Engineering Center, challenges students to create a contraption that will protect a raw egg when dropped from the eighth floor of the Engineering Center’s office tower.

A revitalization project for downtown Houston combining residential, retail and entrepreneurial business elements won $50,000 in a national urban design competition for a joint student team from the University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder and Harvard University.

JILA, a joint institute of the University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder and the National Institute of Standards and Technology that has produced three Nobel Prize winners since 2001, has opened a new wing with advanced laboratories for its world-renowned science.

Patrick Mason, a professor of voice at the University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder’s College of Music, has been selected to receive the 2012 Hazel Barnes Prize. The prize is the highest faculty recognition for teaching and research awarded by the university. Mason will receive an engraved university medal and $20,000, the largest single faculty award funded by Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ-Boulder. He will be recognized at spring commencement on May 11 and at a reception in his honor in the fall.

College In Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ news release DENVER - The University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ has teamed up with Denver-based Crowley Foundation to bring 38 high school students from seven Metro Denver high schools to the Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ-Boulder campus on April 6 as part of College Friday.

A new study led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst and involving the University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder proposes a simple new mechanism to explain the source of carbon that fed a series of extreme warming events on Earth about 50 million years ago called the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, or PETM, as well as a sequence of similar, smaller warming events afterward.

University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder students will have another four years at the controls of NASA’s Kepler mission, launched in 2009 to hunt down Earth-like rocky planets in other solar systems and which has succeeded in spectacular fashion.

A web-based science instruction program designed by researchers at the University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder and the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research that provides teachers with cutting-edge digital content is being tested in six school districts, thanks to a new $600,000 grant from the National Science Foundation.

University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder students, along with experts from government and industry, will focus on student research and the natural gas boom during the third annual Energy Frontiers conference April 5. The event, organized by the Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Energy Club, is free and open to the public and will be held from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the Glenn Miller Ballroom of the University Memorial Center. The conference includes a poster session, panel discussion, catered lunch and a career fair.