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If you gaze at the night sky from Earth in just the right place, you will see the International Space Station (ISS), a bright speck of light hurtling through space at 5 miles per second as it orbits 220 miles above the planet. And if you were an astronaut floating around inside the station, you would see high-tech hardware and experiments designed and built at Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder.

Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder will expand its role as a national leader in imaging, materials, nano, bio and energy sciences as part of a collaborative partnership awarded $24 million by the National Science Foundation to launch a new center.

Previous estimates of ice mass loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet—already known to be shrinking—may be underestimates, according to a new study co-authored by Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder researchers. Photo credit: Greenland's Zachariæ Isbræ, Anders A. Bjørk

A probiotic treatment has been shown to effectively inoculate endangered Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ toads and protect them from a virulent fungus that has ravaged the population in recent decades, according to the results of new University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder research.

Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder recently expanded its support of public scholarship in the arts and humanities by joining a national group called Imagining America, which works to advance democracy and participation in higher education.

Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder and DigitalGlobe Inc. are partnering to provide access to DigitalGlobe’s industry-leading high-resolution satellite imagery, data and analytics tools to the university’s Earth Lab initiative in order to advance earth and space science research.

Deborah Jin passed away Sept. 15, 2016, after a courageous battle with cancer. She was 47. Jin was an internationally renowned physicist and Fellow with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), an Adjoint Professor in the Department of Physics at Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder, and a Fellow of JILA, a joint institute of NIST and the University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ.

University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder researchers were awarded nearly $437 million in research grants in the 2015-16 fiscal year, continuing a decade’s worth of robust growth in sponsored research funding for the campus.

Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Law students and alumni, as well as local attorneys, are visiting schools everywhere in Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ from Glenwood Springs to Wray, Parker, Longmont, Fort Collins, Denver and beyond to guide discussions as part of the annual Constitution Day Program offered by the Byron R. White Center.

Five years after the Arab Spring uprisings rocked the Middle East, former Libyan Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril offered University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder students a front-row perspective on the protests’ genesis, their shortcomings and the lessons the world should absorb in the coming decades.