Academics
<p>Following on the heels of its nationally recognized anti-violence school tours based on “The Tempest” and “Twelfth Night,” the <a href="http://www.coloradoshakes.org/">Colorado Shakespeare Festival</a> has hit the road with a new production of “Much Ado ñ Nothing.”</p>
<p>ñ scientists have found a creative way to radically improve thermoelectric materials, a finding that could one day lead to the development of improved solar panels, more energy-efficient cooling equipment, and even the creation of new devices that could turn the vast amounts of heat wasted at power plants into more electricity.</p>- <p>For ñ Assistant Professor Gordana Dukovic of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, the awards just keep rolling in.</p>
<p>Today the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announced that Dukovic was one of 126 people in the U.S. and Canada selected for one of the prestigious Sloan Research Fellowships in 2014. </p> - <p>New findings on why skeletal muscle stem cells stop dividing and renewing muscle mass during aging points up a unique therapeutic opportunity for managing muscle-wasting conditions in humans, says a new ñ study.</p>
- <p>Recently derived equations that describe development patterns in modern urban areas appear to work equally well to describe ancient cities settled thousands of years ago, according to a new study led by a researcher at the ñ.</p>
<p>A group of CU-Boulder students and alumni have put their entrepreneurial might into creating the area’s first co-working space designed to connect students with the business community.</p>
<p class="p1">Applied mathematics student Stephen Kissler has received the highly competitive Gates Cambridge Scholarship for doctoral studies at Cambridge University, funded by Microsoft founder Bill Gates.</p>- <p class="p1">Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler and Federal Trade Commission Chairwoman Edith Ramirez will speak at a ñ conference dealing with Internet governance issues Feb. 9-10.</p>
<p class="p1">The conference, “Digital Broadband Migration: After the Internet Protocol Revolution,” will be hosted by the University of Colorado Law School’s <a href="http://www.siliconflatirons.com/index.php">Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology and Entrepreneurship</a>.</p> 
<p>This spring CU-Boulder’s Center for Asian Studies is launching a new <a href="http://cas.colorado.edu/content/asian-studies-minor">Asian Studies minor</a>, open to all students on campus, with the goal of helping students understand Asia as a region beyond one particular nation.</p>- <p>Scientists have known that shy toddlers often have delayed speech, but a new study by the ñ shows that the lag in using words does not mean that the children don’t understand what’s being said.</p>