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An astronaut orbiting Earth in the International Space Station has remotely directed a NASA rover in California to unfurl an 鈥渁ntenna film鈥 that CU-Boulder scientists are developing for use on the unexplored far side of the moon.</div>
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听&濒迟;/辫&驳迟; - <p>Aspiring artists at CU-Boulder can learn some of what it takes to become a successful artist in the real world by rubbing shoulders with working professional artists through the <a href="http://cuart.colorado.edu/programs/visiting-artistvisiting-scholar/">Visiting Artist Program</a>.</p>
- <p>An astronaut orbiting Earth in the International Space Station has remotely directed a NASA rover in California to unfurl an 鈥渁ntenna film鈥 that scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder are developing for use on the unexplored far side of the moon.</p>
- <p>The confidence of Colorado business leaders has continued its strong upward trend, surging into the third quarter of 2013, according to the most recent Leeds Business Confidence Index, or LBCI, released today by the University of Colorado Boulder鈥檚 Leeds School of Business.</p>
- <p>Waleed Abdalati has been named the new director of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, or CIRES, a joint institute of the University of Colorado Boulder and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.</p>
<p>Abdalati is a CIRES Fellow, a CU-Boulder professor of geography and director of the CIRES Earth Science and Observation Center. He will take office on July 1.</p> - <p>Let鈥檚 all fist bump: Spiral galaxies like our own Milky Way appear to be much larger and more massive than previously believed, according to a new University of Colorado Boulder study by researchers using the Hubble Space Telescope.</p>
- <p>The University of Colorado Boulder has become a full institutional member of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-IV, an ambitious effort by some of the world鈥檚 top astronomers to map the celestial sky in three dimensions to learn more about the structure and evolution of the universe.</p>
- <p>The University of Colorado Boulder has been chosen by the Association of American Universities to be one of eight campuses participating in a new initiative to improve undergraduate education in science, technology, engineering and math.</p>
<p>Over the next three years, each of the eight project sites will receive $500,000 to undertake an innovative STEM education project.</p> - <p>Two University of Colorado Boulder faculty members have received prestigious CAREER Awards from the National Science Foundation.</p>
<p>NSF Faculty Early Career Development, or CAREER, Awards recognize talented young faculty members with grants to support outstanding research projects and to encourage the integration of teaching and research.</p> - <p>The U.S. Supreme Court today announced its decision in Fisher v. University of Texas, a case that reconsidered affirmative action in university admissions. The following University of Colorado Boulder professors are available to comment on the court鈥檚 decision:</p>