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<p>Toku Kawata, a third-year piano performance doctor of musical arts candidate, spent a month in Paris this summer to research "En Vers" by Japanese composer and sometime Paris resident Akira Miyoshi. He shared his experience with CU-Boulder's <a href="http://www.colorado.edu/music/">College of Music</a>. </p>

<p>CU-Boulder's <a href="http://ccar.colorado.edu/pages/axelrad.html">Penina Axelrad</a>, professor and chair of the Department of Aerospace Sciences, received the 2015 Aerospace Educator Award from the <a href="http://www.womeninaerospace.org/">Women in Aerospace</a> association.</p>

<p>As far as careers go, jazz pianist Stephen Thurston is hitting all the right notes. Since graduating from the CU-Boulder College of Music with a bachelor’s degree in jazz piano in 2013, Thurston has been growing roots in the Denver jazz scene, playing an average of one show per day—often two.</p>

<p>One of the largest research studies of it kind in the state is now underway at the �鶹��Ѱ����� to look at the effects of physical activity on the quality of life in older adults, including social, emotional, financial and cognitive function.</p>

<p>Kicking off the 2015-16 �鶹��Ѱ�����Theatre & Dance season, “[UN] W.R.A.P.: Undoing Writing, Research and Performance” explores the complexity and evolution of “Black Dance.” The three-day symposium, held Sept. 18-20 at the Irey Theatre, will look at the historical impact and ongoing contributions of African American choreographers.</p>

<p>Waleed Abdalati, professor of geography at the �鶹��Ѱ����� and director of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), will co-chair a <a href="http://sites.nationalacademies.org/SSB/CurrentProjects/SSB_166359">prestigious national committee</a> charged with developing U.S. priorities for observing Earth’s atmosphere, oceans and land surfaces by satellite.</p>

<p>The ecological complexity of many emerging disease threats—interactions among multiple hosts, multiple vectors and even multiple parasites—often complicates efforts aimed at controlling disease. Now, a new paper co-authored by a �鶹��Ѱ����� professor is advancing a multidisciplinary framework that could provide a better mechanistic understanding of emerging outbreaks.</p>

<p>The longest and largest controlled burn experiment ever conducted in the Amazon rainforest has yielded new insight into the ways that tropical forests succumb to—and bounce back from—large-scale wildfires, according to new research co-authored by a �鶹��Ѱ����� professor.</p>

<p>The �鶹��Ѱ����� announced today that the Center for Western Civilization in the College of Arts and Sciences is now the Center for Western Civilization, Thought and Policy (CWCTP) and incorporates CU-Boulder’s successful Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and Policy program. </p>

<p>The humble dust collecting in the average American household harbors a teeming menagerie of bacteria and fungi, and as researchers from the �鶹��Ѱ����� and North Carolina State University have discovered, it may be able to predict not only the geographic region of a given home, but the gender ratio of the occupants and the presence of a pet as well.</p>