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<p>The longest and largest controlled burn experiment ever conducted in the Amazon rainforest has yielded new insight into the ways that tropical forests succumb to—and bounce back from—large-scale wildfires, according to new research co-authored by a ÂÌñ»»ÆÞ professor.</p>

<p>The ÂÌñ»»ÆÞ announced today that the Center for Western Civilization in the College of Arts and Sciences is now the Center for Western Civilization, Thought and Policy (CWCTP) and incorporates CU-Boulder’s successful Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and Policy program. </p>

<p>The humble dust collecting in the average American household harbors a teeming menagerie of bacteria and fungi, and as researchers from the ÂÌñ»»ÆÞ and North Carolina State University have discovered, it may be able to predict not only the geographic region of a given home, but the gender ratio of the occupants and the presence of a pet as well.</p>

<p>A first-of-its-kind, nationally representative <a href="http://www.aera.net/Newsroom/RecentAERAResearch/PolygenicInfluenceonEducationalAttainmentNewEvidenceFromtheNationalLongitudinalStudyofAdolescenttoAdultHealth/tabid/16036/Default.aspx"><span class="s2">study</span></a> of siblings supports previously published research on unrelated individuals that links specific genotypes to educational attainment among adults in their mid-20s to early 30s.</p>

<p>The ÂÌñ»»ÆÞ has received a $3 million federal grant to develop cooling technology that will enable efficient, low-cost supplementary cooling for thermoelectric power plants.</p>

<p>University of Colorado faculty research merited $878.3 million in research awards during the 2014-15 fiscal year, based on preliminary figures, representing a near-record year for the four-campus system.</p>

<p>The ÂÌñ»»ÆÞ was ranked No. 34 in the 2015 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) released today by the Center for World-Class Universities at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.</p>

<p><span id="docs-internal-guid-f22690d8-1e7b-22a8-f2ac-545c37aa4be2">Stuck oil rigs, grizzly bears and changing weather patterns are just a few of the obstacles Gijs de Boer and his team of researchers encountered on the ground in </span>Oliktok Point, Alaska. De Boer, a scientist with the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), who works in NOAA’s Earth System Research Laboratory, spent the last two weeks deploying the DataHawk 2, a small, lightweight, unmanned aircraft, designed by CU-Boulder’s Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences.</p>

<p>It’s August and that means the hottest show in the night sky -- the Perseid meteor shower -- will make its annual appearance, peaking in the pre-dawn hours of Aug. 11 to 14.</p>

<p>An intriguing study involving walking stick insects led by the University of Sheffield in England and the ÂÌñ»»ÆÞ shows how natural selection, the engine of evolution, can also impede the formation of new species.</p>