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<p>A Colorado student space research consortium led by the University of Colorado Boulder teamed up with a Virginia space consortium led by the University of Virginia this week to help aspiring rocket scientists from around the country learn how to design, build and fly payloads.</p>

<p>The <a href="http://hr.colorado.edu/training/Pages/EmployeeLMC.aspx">Department of Human Resources</a> and the <a href="http://emp.colorado.edu/">Lockheed Martin Engineering Management Program</a> are excited to announce the launch of an exclusive <em>Leadership and Management Graduate Certificate Program</em>. Designed with CU-Boulder employees in mind, the program will help our current and future leaders develop and refine their leadership skills and learn new ways to measure and enhance organizational effectiveness with practical application. Course content is applicable to all professions and does not require a technical or engineering background.</p>
<p>Our employees will be able to use the tuition reimbursement benefit to cover tuition, and employees selected to participate in this exclusive program will be allowed to attend classes during work time and the employee’s department will pay for the costs of any fees and books. </p>

<p>The amount of dust being blown across the landscape has increased over the last 17 years in large swaths of the West, according to a new study led by the University of Colorado Boulder.</p>
<p>The escalation in dust emissions — which may be due to the interplay of several factors, including increased windstorm frequency, drought cycles and changing land-use patterns — has implications both for the areas where the dust is first picked up by the winds and for the places where the dust is put back down.</p>

<p>A team of researchers led by the University of Colorado Boulder has discovered a protein complex that could be targeted with drugs to stunt tumor growth.</p>
<p>As tumors expand, their centers are deprived of oxygen, and so tumors must flip specific genetic switches to survive in these hypoxic environments.</p>

<p>A new look at the diets of ancient African hominids shows a “game changer” occurred about 3.5 million years ago when some members added grasses or sedges to their menus, according to a new study led by the University of Colorado Boulder.<br /><br /></p>

<p>A chemical reaction between iron-containing minerals and water may produce enough hydrogen “food” to sustain microbial communities living in pores and cracks within the enormous volume of rock below the ocean floor and parts of the continents, according to a new study led by the University of Colorado Boulder.</p>
<p>The findings, published in the journal Nature Geoscience, also hint at the possibility that hydrogen-dependent life could have existed where iron-rich igneous rocks on Mars were once in contact with water.</p>

<p>Five University of Colorado Boulder students have partnered with a researcher at the University of Colorado Cancer Center to file a patent for a medical device that lets researchers quickly, easily and inexpensively isolate a patient’s cancer cells for genetic tests that allow doctors to target the disease. </p>

<p>A state application organized by the University of Colorado Boulder has been submitted to the Federal Aviation Administration for the development of one of <a href="http://www.faa.gov/news/press_releases/news_story.cfm?newsId=13393">six unmanned aircraft systems test sites slated to be established across the United States</a>.<br /><br /></p>

<p>University of Colorado Boulder faculty member Ivan Smalyukh is among 61 scientists to receive a 2013 <a href="http://science.energy.gov/early-career/">Early Career Award from the U.S. Department of Energy</a>.<br /><br />
Smalyukh, an assistant professor of physics and a founding fellow of the <a href="http://rasei.colorado.edu/">Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute</a>, or RASEI, has been awarded $750,000 over five years. RASEI is a joint venture between CU-Boulder and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.<br /></p>

<p>As the school year wraps up, students at Summit Charter Middle School in Boulder will debrief on how their $25,000 stock portfolio performed.</p>
<p>The middle school students invested money under supervision as part of a course created and taught by accounting and finance students from the University of Colorado Boulder’s <a href="http://leeds.colorado.edu/">Leeds School of Business</a>.</p>