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- New University of Colorado Boulder research shows the number of farms globally will shrink in half as the size of the average existing farms doubles by the end of the 21st century, posing significant risks to the world’s food systems.
- The latest Leeds Business Confidence Index shows the Russia-Ukraine war and inflation, among other factors, are top concerns for Colorado business leaders.
- Colorado’s economic momentum is expected to continue into 2022, according to the latest Quarterly Business and Economic Indicators report prepared by the Leeds Business Research Division (BRD) at CU Boulder in conjunction with the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office.
- Development of a material that can cool structures with zero energy use. Discovery of supercharged antibiotics that can fight antibiotic resistance. These are among the top 10 high-impact findings of research published by faculty and students in 2017. They are stories of innovation, impact and leadership in their fields.
- Arctic autumn, Antarctic spring both see surprisingly little ice extent, new National Snow and Ice Data Center data shows.
- The University of Colorado Boulder has been selected to lead a $15.3 million effort to better understand how to improve the sustainability of water, sanitation and hygiene interventions in the developing world.
- 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 CU Boulder, and a Fellow of JILA, a joint institute of NIST and the University of Colorado.
- University of Colorado 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.
- The Arctic’s ice cover appears to have reached its minimum extent on September 10, 2016, according to scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), part of CIRES and the University of Colorado Boulder.
- CU Boulder researchers will play a key role in a landmark national study of brain development and child health in the United States.