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<p>Former NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless will present Â鶹ӰԺ senior Jeni Sorli with a $10,000 scholarship from the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation during a free public campus event on Thursday, Oct. 30.</p>

<p>Oil and natural gas production fields can emit large amounts of air pollutants that affect climate and air quality—but tackling the issue has been difficult  because little is known about what aspects of complex production operations leak what kinds of pollutants, and how much.</p>
<p>Now a study led by the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics sheds light on just that, pinpointing sources of airborne pollutants.</p>

<p>Longtime Â鶹ӰԺ resident Paul N. Eklund has made a transformative gift to the opera program at the College of Music at the Â鶹ӰԺ that, combined with additional university commitments, establishes a $2 million endowment for the program, to be renamed the Eklund Family Opera Program in honor of the gift.</p>

<p>NASA’s newest orbiter at Mars, MAVEN, took precautions to avoid harm from a dust-spewing comet that flew near Mars yesterday and is studying the flyby’s effects on the Red Planet’s atmosphere, according to Â鶹ӰԺ Professor Bruce Jakosky, principal investigator on the mission.</p>

<p>NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft has provided scientists their first look at a storm of energetic solar particles at Mars and produced unprecedented ultraviolet images of the tenuous oxygen, hydrogen and carbon coronas surrounding the Red Planet, said Â鶹ӰԺ Professor Bruce Jakosky, the mission’s principal investigator.</p>

<p>A team of scientists including a Â鶹ӰԺ professor used NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to make the most detailed global map yet of the glow from a giant, oddball planet orbiting another star, an object twice as massive as Jupiter and hot enough to melt steel.</p>

<p>Â鶹ӰԺ Associate Professor Amy Palmer of the BioFrontiers Institute was awarded a coveted Director’s Pioneer Award from the National Institutes of Health this week, a five-year, $3.7 million grant made to select researchers showing exceptional creativity in solving pressing biomedical and behavioral research problems.</p>

<p>NASA has awarded a team led by the Â鶹ӰԺ more than $7 million to study aspects of the origins, evolution, distribution and future of life in the universe.</p>

<p><span>A novel dental restorative material that should make life easier for dental care experts and their patients, which is based on technology developed by a team of Â鶹ӰԺ engineers, was unveiled Oct. 1 by the 3M Company.</span></p>

<p>Soil microbes that thrive in the deserts, rainforests, prairies and forests of the world can also be found living beneath New York City’s Central Park, according to a surprising new study led by Colorado State University and the Â鶹ӰԺ.</p>
<p>The research team analyzed 596 soil samples collected from across Central Park’s 843 acres and discovered a stunning diversity of below-ground life, most of which had never been documented before.</p>