Student Edition - Feb. 10, 2017
Valentine’s Day on a budget: How to impress your date without breaking the bank
Looking for some budget-friendly advice for celebrating Valentine's Day? Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØMoney Sense has some suggestions.
Two faculty elected to National Academy of Engineering
The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has elected Distinguished Professor Daniel J. Scheeres, a Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder aerospace engineer who has an asteroid named after him, and Adjunct Professor Philippe Spalart, a Boeing Technical Fellow, to its 2017 class. Election to the NAE is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer.
Tips on accessing your favorite Google apps via G Suite
In case you missed it, Google Apps recently changed names to G Suite, but users still have access to the same great applications like Groups, Drive, Sheets, Sites and more. All university affiliates are provisioned with G Suite accounts.
$5 million in grants make master's degrees possible for 90 teachers of diverse learners
Two U.S. Department of Education grants will enable Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder's BUENO Center to offer 90 Colorado teachers free or sharply discounted master's degrees with an emphasis on teaching English learners and students with disabilities.
Research news
Newly engineered material can cool roofs, structures with zero energy consumption
A team of Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder engineers has developed a scalable manufactured metamaterial with the ability to cool objects under direct sunlight with zero energy and water consumption.
The possibilities and limits of using data to predict scientific discoveries
Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder researcher Aaron Clauset examines the possibilities and limits of using massive data sets of scientific papers and information on scientific careers to study the social processes that underlie discoveries.
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