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<p>In a state known for its dramatic weather and climate, Colorado’s history of extreme precipitation varies considerably by season and location, according to a new study led by the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Science, a partnership between the �鶹��Ѱ����� and NOAA.</p>

<p>�鶹��Ѱ����� Distinguished Professor Margaret Murnane has been elected to the prestigious American Philosophical Society (APS).</p>
<p><span id="">Murnane, a fellow at JILA -- a joint institute of CU-Boulder and the National Institute of Standards and Technology -- and professor in the physics department, is the fourth CU-Boulder faculty member to be elected to APS. There were 34 people worldwide elected in 2015 to the society, which was founded in 1743 in Philadelphia by Benjamin Franklin, who later became its first president.</span></p>

<p>A novel compound developed by a team led by the �鶹��Ѱ����� may be therapeutic in suppressing misguided inflammatory responses by a set of immune cells known as microglia to perceived damage to the brain and nervous system.</p>

<p>Policy communities increasingly call upon ecological restoration as a means to address many of the major threats facing the world’s ecosystems. But internationally accepted best practices for restoration efforts are noticeably absent.</p>

<p>A mission to study dynamic changes in the atmosphere of Mars over days and seasons led by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) involves the �鶹��Ѱ����� as the leading U.S. scientific-academic partner.</p>

<p>The National Education Policy Center (NEPC) at the �鶹��Ѱ����� announced today that 17 high schools in New York and Colorado are the first to receive the “School of Opportunity” designation. These outstanding schools demonstrated a range of practices that ensured that all students had rich opportunities to succeed. All put students, not test scores, first.<br />
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<p>Before Courtnie Paschall touched down at the �鶹��Ѱ�����, she’d graduated from the Naval Academy (‘08), attained the rank of lieutenant in the U.S. Navy and undergone years of flight training.</p>
<p>Paschall graduates on May 9 with a degree in neuroscience and a minor in electrical engineering. She earned the distinction of graduating summa cum laude and was named the Outstanding Graduate for the College of Arts and Sciences for spring 2015.</p>

<p>A new study appearing this week in the scientific journal eLIFE about the rapid evolution of small viruses that infect bacteria includes 59 �鶹��Ѱ����� co-authors, all of whom conducted research for the paper as freshmen.</p>

<p>A new �鶹��Ѱ����� study involving some 40,000 people indicates that social and psychological problems caused by drinking generally trump physically hazardous drinking behaviors when it comes to overall mortality rates.</p>

<p>�鶹��Ѱ����� astronomers, who helped design and build instruments for and have made hundreds of observations using the Hubble Space Telescope since its launch, are celebrating the observatory’s 25th anniversary.</p>