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<p>Increases in the diversity of parasites that attack amphibians cause a decrease in the infection success rate of virulent parasites, including one that causes malformed limbs and premature death, says a new ���� study.</p>

<p>Assistant Professor Paul Romatschke of the ��ñ���� physics department will receive a five-year, $750,000 grant as part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Early Career Research Program created to bolster the nation’s scientific workforce with top young researchers.</p>
<p>Romatschke was among 68 winners selected nationwide from a pool of 850 applicants from universities and national laboratories</p>

<p>A revolutionary research and teaching facility opening at the ���� will facilitate work on a wide swath of pressing societal challenges ranging from biomedical issues like cancer, heart disease and tissue engineering to the development of new biofuels.</p>

<p>A ����-led team has developed a new monitoring system to analyze and compare emissions from man-made fossil fuels and trace gases in the atmosphere, a technique that likely could be used to monitor the effectiveness of measures regulating greenhouse gases.</p>

<p>Like snow sliding off a roof on a sunny day, the Greenland Ice Sheet may be sliding faster into the ocean due to massive releases of meltwater from surface lakes, according to a new study by the ����-based Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences.</p>

<p>���� students, along with experts from government and industry, will focus on student research and the natural gas boom during the third annual Energy Frontiers conference April 5.</p>
<p>The event, organized by the CU Energy Club, is free and open to the public and will be held from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the Glenn Miller Ballroom of the University Memorial Center. The conference includes a poster session, panel discussion, catered lunch and a career fair.</p>

<p>The ���� will test the Campus Alerts text-messaging system on Tuesday, April 3, at noon in coordination with the annual flood siren testing, which begins Monday, April 2.</p>
<p>“We’re raising awareness that the city of Boulder has the highest risk of flash flooding in Colorado because of its location at the mouth of Boulder Canyon, the number of people who live and work within the Boulder Creek floodplain, and the numerous other drainage basins running through the city,” said Lacey Croco, CU-Boulder emergency manager.</p>

<p>Long thought to produce only one generation of tree-killing offspring annually, some populations of mountain pine beetles now produce two generations per year, dramatically increasing the potential for the bugs to kill lodgepole and ponderosa pine trees, ���� researchers have found.</p>

<p>CU System news release</p>
<p>DENVER – Graduate programs across the University of Colorado system continue to earn national prominence based on the latest annual rankings from <em>U.S. News & World Report.</em> Schools and programs at the four CU campuses notch 28 mentions in the 2013 edition of <a href="http://www.usnews.com/grad">Best Graduate Schools</a> (U.S. News Media Group), including 10 ranked in the top 10 of their fields.</p>
<p>CU’s 2013 rankings are:</p>
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<p>The exhaust fumes from gasoline vehicles contribute more to the production of a specific type of air pollution -- secondary organic aerosols -- than those from diesel vehicles, according to a new study by scientists from the ��ñ����’s Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, or CIRES, NOAA’s Earth System Research Laboratory and other colleagues.</p>