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    <p>Pollock is the second CU-Boulder faculty member to win a national Professor of the Year award. Nobel laureate Carl Wieman, also a physics professor, was honored with the designation in 2004.</p>
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  • <p>The initial results are now coming in for a project led by CU-Boulder that is expected to eventually sequence聽the聽gut bacteria of tens of thousands of people around the world in hopes of better understanding nutrition and health.聽The crowd-funded effort, known as the American Gut project, or AG, has thus far sequenced microbes from the digestive tracts of 1,589 people聽and has received $615,000 in donations from more than 6,700 people and four companies. Led by CU-Boulder Professor Rob Knight of the BioFrontiers Institute, the effort is the largest crowd-funded science project ever undertaken.</p>
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    <p>The data, released today by the Institute of International Education in its annual Open Doors Report, shows that CU-Boulder was home to 1,910 international students during the 2012-13 school year, up from 1,681 in 2011-12.</p>
    <p>CU-Boulder sent 1,330 students overseas during the 2011-12 school year, up from 1,316 in 2010-11.</p>
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  • <p>In an example of the challenges water-strapped Western cities will face in a warming world, new research shows that every degree Fahrenheit of warming in the Salt Lake City region could mean a 1.8 to 6.5 percent drop in the annual flow of streams that provide water to the city.</p>
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