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<p>The ���� will host a free public lecture this month illuminating the lessons learned from the April 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion that killed 11 workers and resulted in the largest accidental oil spill in U.S. history.</p>
<p>Called “What Happened at Deepwater Horizon?” the event will be presented Jan. 26 from 6:30 to 9 p.m. in the Mathematics Building auditorium, room 100.</p>

<p>While the majority of dating websites do a good job of managing the privacy of their users, a class research project at the ��ñ����’s Leeds School of Business found that 21 of 90 dating websites the class examined did not properly remove location data from pictures uploaded by their users.</p>

<p>An astronomy team led by the ��ñ���� using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has zeroed in on <a href="http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2012/01/10/cu-led-study-pinpoints-farthest-developing-galaxy-cluster-ever-found">a wild intergalactic construction project</a> -- a cluster of early galaxies just starting to assemble only 600 million years after the Big Bang.</p>

<p>As a new year and the spring semester begin, the ��ñ���� is welcoming the first class of journalism students entering under a new undergraduate degree structure called “Journalism Plus” that CU officials say will create better journalists, better news content and, over time, a more informed society.</p>

<p>A team of ��ñ���� engineers will travel to Haiti this month to support the growth of green energy on the two-year anniversary of the country’s devastating earthquake. </p>
<p>Engineering professors Alan Mickelson and Mike Hannigan and graduate student Matt Hulse will be in Haiti Jan. 8-16 to collaborate with the Neges Foundation school at Leogane to create a vocational training program on the installation, operation and maintenance of renewable energy systems.   </p>

<p class="content">Colorado business leaders' optimism has resumed going into the first quarter of 2012 after a dip in confidence last quarter, according to the most recent quarterly Leeds Business Confidence Index, or LBCI, released today by the ����'s Leeds School of Business.</p>

<p>Over the past decade, the ���� has established itself as a national leader in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, or STEM, education.</p>
<p>Through its Learning Assistant and CU Teach programs and Integrating STEM initiative, CU-Boulder is making great progress on its goal of improving introductory math and science classes and recruiting and training future K-12 science teachers.</p>

<p>A team of researchers led by the ���� recently discovered the first prehistoric bronze artifact made from a cast ever found in Alaska, a small, buckle-like object found in an ancient Eskimo dwelling and which likely originated in East Asia.</p>

<p>When considering giving money to humanitarian crises people often donate in response to events that grab their immediate emotions, according to a recent study by CU-Boulder psychology professor Leaf Van Boven.</p>
<p>"The question we wanted to answer with our study is what is the impact of people's emotions on their decisions to make charitable donations," Van Boven said. "We demonstrated that people act on what is immediately emotionally arousing to them. In other words, they respond to what makes them upset in the here and now."</p>

<p class="content">Kevin Welner, professor of education and director of the National Education Policy Center at the CU-Boulder School of Education, can speak to most elements of the Lobato litigation and its implications. Welner is an attorney and policy analyst who has published articles and book chapters concerning school finance litigation, the outcomes of such litigation, and the underlying issues of what's necessary for an adequate education. He can explain the issues in the Lobato case as well as the options now available to the courts and lawmakers.</p>