After A Year Of Study, Twin Probes Crash Into Moon
Posted On Wednesday, January 2, 2013 By USA Education News. Under COLORADO Tags: Gravity Recovery, Maria Zuber, McKinnon, Moon, NASA's GRAIL mission, Twin Probes Crash, Washington University
At about 5:30 p.m. on Monday, two washing machine-sized space probes crashed into the surface of the moon. It was all by design and marked the end of NASA's GRAIL mission. The two probes had been orbiting the moon for almost a year, and they've sent back data that have ...
Colorado Eighth-Graders Perform At Or Above Many International Counterparts in Mathematics And Science
Posted On Saturday, December 29, 2012 By USA Education News. Under COLORADO Tags: Colorado eighth-graders, Education Statistics, Mathematics, Science
In results released today from the National Center for Education Statistics, Colorado eighth-graders performed above international and national averages in science and above international and with national counterparts in mathematics in the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS). The average math scores of the east Asian countries of ...
JILA Physicists Achieve Elusive ‘Evaporative Cooling’ Of Molecules
Posted On Thursday, December 20, 2012 By USA Education News. Under COLORADO Tags: CU-Boulder campus, evaporative cooling, JILA physicists, University of Colorado
Achieving a goal considered nearly impossible, JILA physicists have chilled a gas of molecules to very low temperatures by adapting the familiar process by which a hot cup of coffee cools.
JILA is a joint institute of the University of Colorado Boulder and the National Institute of Standards and Technology located ...
Geography Students Travel to Guatemala to Collect Tree-Ring Data in the Wild
Posted On Saturday, December 15, 2012 By USA Education News. Under COLORADO Tags: Geography students, Guatemala, tree-ring data
The things a tree can tell you can change the fate of a civilization.
That’s why since 2007, Associate Professor Matthew Taylor of the geography department has been taking University of Denver graduate and undergraduate students to Guatemala to study tree-ring data. The light and dark bands of wood, he says, ...
Colorado State University Professor to Lead International Collaboration of Scientists to Look at Big Bang, Black Holes
Posted On Saturday, December 15, 2012 By USA Education News. Under COLORADO Tags: Big Bang, Black Holes, Colorado State University, scientists
FORT COLLINS - Robert J. Wilson, professor at Colorado State University, has been selected to help lead the Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment - an international science collaboration - for the next two years.
Wilson and Milind Diwan of Brookhaven National Laboratory will act as spokesmen and representatives of the international collaboration of ...
CU-Boulder Team Develops Swarm of Pingpong Ball-Sized Robots
Posted On Saturday, December 15, 2012 By USA Education News. Under COLORADO Tags: Nikolaus Correll, tiny robots, University of Colorado
University of Colorado Boulder Assistant Professor Nikolaus Correll likes to think in multiples. If one robot can accomplish a singular task, think how much more could be accomplished if you had hundreds of them.
Correll and his computer science research team, including research associate Dustin Reishus and professional research assistant Nick ...
New CU-Boulder Merit Scholarship Program Recognizes Outstanding Colorado Residents
Posted On Thursday, December 13, 2012 By USA Education News. Under COLORADO Tags: flagship university, freshmen, Philip P. DiStefano, University of Colorado
The University of Colorado Boulder today announced a new merit-based scholarship program to recognize top entering Colorado freshmen for outstanding academic achievement.
Under the CU-Boulder Esteemed Scholars Program, a select group of entering Colorado resident freshmen will receive scholarships ranging from a total of $10,000 to $20,000 over four years based ...
