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Oil and natural gas production fields can emit large amounts of air pollutants that affect climate and air quality—but tackling the issue has been difficult because little is known about what aspects of complex production operations leak what kinds of pollutants, and how much. Now a study led by the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics sheds light on just that, pinpointing sources of airborne pollutants.

Longtime Boulder resident Paul N. Eklund has made a transformative gift to the opera program at the College of Music at the University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder that, combined with additional university commitments, establishes a $2 million endowment for the program, to be renamed the Eklund Family Opera Program in honor of the gift.

Not everybody or everything makes it to 100, but the University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder Homecoming is about to reach that centennial mark. On Nov. 7, 1914, Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ took on Utah to win 33-0 in the first Homecoming featuring an intercollegiate matchup. This year, from Oct. 22 to 25, Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ-Boulder will host hundreds of guests at dozens of major events. In addition to the traditional football game and parade, the celebration will include a concert, an alumni lecture series, affinity reunions and college and school gatherings.

NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft has provided scientists their first look at a storm of energetic solar particles at Mars and produced unprecedented ultraviolet images of the tenuous oxygen, hydrogen and carbon coronas surrounding the Red Planet, said University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder Professor Bruce Jakosky, the mission’s principal investigator.

Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ-Boulder alumni Michele (Mikhy) and Mike Ritter have a deep love for Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ-Boulder. They've recently made a trailblazing gift to the classical guitar program in the College of Music that, combined with a commitment from the Office of the Chancellor, will endow and name the program.

A team of scientists including a University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder professor used NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to make the most detailed global map yet of the glow from a giant, oddball planet orbiting another star, an object twice as massive as Jupiter and hot enough to melt steel.

University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder Associate Professor Amy Palmer of the BioFrontiers Institute was awarded a coveted Director’s Pioneer Award from the National Institutes of Health this week, a five-year, $3.7 million grant made to select researchers showing exceptional creativity in solving pressing biomedical and behavioral research problems.

NASA has awarded a team led by the University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder more than $7 million to study aspects of the origins, evolution, distribution and future of life in the universe.

Past research shows physical beauty can be detrimental to women applying for masculine jobs. But belles can put the brakes on discrimination by acknowledging their looks during an interview, according to a new study led by the University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder. The paper, published in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes , is the first to provide a method for curtailing such prejudice against attractive women.

A novel dental restorative material that should make life easier for dental care experts and their patients, which is based on technology developed by a team of University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder engineers, was unveiled Oct. 1 by the 3M Company.