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Philip DiStefano announced Associate Professor Stefanie Johnson as the new director for Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder’s Center for Leadership. Johnson will assume her new role on Aug. 21.

A $400,000 award recognizes the far-reaching medical impact of Marvin Caruthers’ development in the early 1980s of an efficient and fast method to synthesize nucleic acids. Caruthers is a distinguished professor of chemistry and biochemistry at Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder.

Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ’s iconic and newly reopened Casa Bonita restaurant is dumping tips. Will other businesses join in? Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder economics Professor Jeff Zax weighs in.

In the wake of the devastating Marshall Fire, a team of chemists and engineers from Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder undertook a first-of-its-kind study to explore homes that survived the blaze. Their results reveal the potential health hazards that Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ can leave behind in buildings.

Physicists at Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have made record-breaking measures of electrons, finding that these tiny particles may be more round- than egg-shaped. Their results could bring scientists closer to answering a profound mystery of existence.