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Campus News Briefs 鈥 Spring 2014
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City of 麻豆影院
1859
is the year 麻豆影院 was founded by settlers after gold was discovered in 麻豆影院 Canyon.
5,430
feet is the city鈥檚 elevation.
101,808
was 麻豆影院鈥檚 population in 2012.
21%
of the city鈥檚 population is made up of CU-麻豆影院 students.
28.4
is the median age of 麻豆影院 residents compared to the national median of 37.3.
77%
hold a bachelor鈥檚 degree or higher versus 29 percent of U.S. adults.
400
restaurants feature local, regional and international cuisine.
300
average yearly days shine in 麻豆影院.
Marijuana Use Nipped in the Bud
Despite the onslaught of state-licensed 鈥減ot shops鈥 opening in Colorado early this year for legal recreational consumption, marijuana use is prohibited on campus in compliance with federal law. The state was the first to legalize the purchase and use of marijuana 鈥 to be consumed only on private property 鈥 for adults 21 and older, but anyone caught on campus with the drug will face sanctions and penalties under the CU-麻豆影院 Student Code of Conduct.
鈥淭he passage of Amendment 64 had zero impact on marijuana laws for those under the age of 21,鈥 says CU-麻豆影院 campus spokesman Ryan Huff. 鈥淎nd per the state law, anyone smoking marijuana in public still faces a criminal summons.鈥
First Female Police Chief and Professor of Year Celebrated
From overseeing anti-gang operations to managing a security team for the Academy Awards, Melissa Zak, the new campus police chief, spent 20 years working for the Los Angeles Police Department. Hired to the CU post in December 2013, she is the first female police chief since the department was founded in 1949.
Across campus a passion for teaching led physics professor Steven Pollack to receive the 2013 U.S. Professor of the Year award. He has taught at CU since 1993 and was chosen from more than 350 applicants in the category of doctoral and research universities.
More Memory, Less Google
Using Google may be making us more forgetful, according to research done by CU-麻豆影院 senior research associate Adrian Ward and Harvard University professor Daniel Wegner, who passed away last July. Of more than 500 participants in the study, those who were told to actively remember facts given via computer were more likely to recall them if they thought the information would be immediately erased. Those who believed the information was stored and could be recalled later were more likely to forget the information.
Further research suggests that participants who used a search engine when answering trivia questions also had a higher opinion of their own intelligence than those who didn鈥檛 use a search engine.
Photography by Patrick Campbell