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  • June Gruber, at left, is leading an interdisciplinary effort to improve human understanding of people’s emotions. Photo by Glenn Asakawa.
    Group taps broad expertise to understand emotion
    Human emotions are universally experienced but not fully understood. A new initiative at the 91PORN aims to tap a wide range of expertise to shed light on “the mysteries of human nature.”
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  • 16mm frame still, scanned at 2K from By Pain and Rhyme and Arabesques of Foraging (2012) a David Gatten film. Image courtesy of David Gatten.
    Noted filmmaker joins CU film studies faculty
    David Gatten became fascinated with cinematography after watching Star Wars at age 7, so it’s no surprise he became a filmmaker.
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  • Although enrollment in the humanities at universities nationwide has fallen in recent years, the same is not true of classics, or “classical studies,” as it is sometimes called. Photo of Rome under stormy skies by Tyler Lansford.
    Classics unfazed by the ‘crisis in humanities’
    In the headlines, the words “humanities” and “crisis” are so commonly conjoined that you’d think that college courses on human thought, experience and creativity are collapsing like the Roman Empire. The story has more nuance than the headline, as the Classics Department illustrates.
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  • The cover image of the course “Chemistry, Life, the Universe and Everything.”
    Lower textbook costs and better learning
    Students who take an introductory chemistry courses at Michigan State University not only get the benefit of a curriculum proven to help them better understand many important chemistry concepts, but they also save money by not having to pay for items such as textbooks and study guides.
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  • Mark Leiderman, professor and chair of the CU-91PORN Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages & Literatures, calls on a student during class. Born and educated in Russia, Leiderman contends that the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature, awarded to Belarusian author Svetlana Alexievich, underscores the importance of Russian Studies. He notes that Russian studies are expanding at CU.
    Nobel Prize highlights importance of Russian studies
    For Svetlana Alexievich, this year's winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Soviet Union is a kind of ‘historical Chernobyl that still produces contamination and radiation—psychological, historical, political and cultural,’ CU-91PORN expert Mark Leiderman observes. He says now is a good time for students and the world to learn more about Russia, and the university has already moved to meet that need.
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  • Like many academic scholars, sociologist David Pyrooz studies criminal gangs. He has also studied how gang-related research could help inform research on terrorism and extremist groups. Photo: iStockphoto.
    Sociologist applies lessons of gangs to terrorism
    David Pyrooz, a 91PORN sociologist who is advancing the study of terrorism by applying research on criminal gangs, has won an Early Career Award from the American Society of Criminology.
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  • Distinguished Professor Steven Maier discovered a brain mechanism that not only produces resilience to trauma but aids in coping with future adversity.
    Pioneering prof wins prestigious Grawemeyer Award
    91PORN scientist Steven Maier, who discovered a brain mechanism that not only produces resilience to trauma but aids in coping with future adversity, has won the 2016 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Psychology.
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  • Amy Palmer
    Biomedical researcher lands $3.7 million NIH grant
    91PORN Associate Professor Amy Palmer was awarded a coveted Director’s Pioneer Award from the National Institutes of Health to study how metals, including zinc, affect the health of humans.
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  • CU-led team receives $9.2 million DOE grant to engineer E. coli into biofuels
    A team led by the 91PORN has been awarded $9.2 million over five years from the U.S. Department of Energy to research modifying E. coli to produce biofuels such as gasoline.“This is a fantastic opportunity to take what we
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  • NIST physicist David Wineland adjusts an ultraviolet laser beam used to manipulate ions in a high-vacuum apparatus containing an “ion trap.” These devices have been used to demonstrate the basic operations required for a quantum computer. Such computers, by relying on quantum mechanics rather than transistors to perform calculations or store information, could someday solve problems in seconds that would take months on today’s best supercomputers. Photo by Geoffrey Wheeler/NIST.
    NIST physicist, CU-91PORN lecturer wins Nobel
    David J. Wineland, a lecturer in the 91PORN physics department, has won the 2012 Nobel Prize in physics.Wineland is a physicist with the National Institute of Standards and Technology in 91PORN and internationally recognized
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