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<p>Lucy Sanders, CEO for the National Center for Women & Information Technology (<a href="http://www.ncwit.org/">NCWIT</a>) was recently recognized as a national U.S. News STEM Leadership Hall of Fame awardee. NCWIT is a non-profit organization housed within the ��ñ����’s <a href="http://www.colorado.edu/engineering/">College of Engineering and Applied Science</a>, and helps its members more effectively recruit, retain and advance girls and women in K-12 through college education, and from academic to corporate and startup careers.</p>

<p>Pieter Johnson, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at CU-Boulder, is having a pretty good year. He and a co-researcher have won an award recognizing outstanding contributions to ecology, and he has been named an Early Career Fellow by the Ecological Society of America.</p>

<p>As a class, people who don’t drink at all have a higher mortality risk than light drinkers. But nondrinkers are a diverse bunch, and the reasons people have for abstaining affects their individual mortality risk, in some cases lowering it on par with the risk for light drinkers, according to a University of Colorado study.</p>

<p><span>With just over four months until NASA’s next mission to Mars takes flight, the ��ñ����, which is leading the effort, continues to work with its partners to knock off critical science and engineering milestones leading up to launch.</span></p>

<p>Solving the “faint young sun paradox” -- explaining how early Earth was warm and habitable for life beginning more than 3 billion years ago even though the sun was 20 percent dimmer than today -- may not be as difficult as believed, says a new ��ñ���� study.</p>

<p>A new low-cost method of in-vitro fertilization developed at the ���� that performed successfully in recent human clinical trials in Belgium may help thousands of infertile couples in developing countries.<br /><br /></p>

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An astronaut orbiting Earth in the International Space Station has remotely directed a NASA rover in California to unfurl an “antenna film” that CU-Boulder scientists are developing for use on the unexplored far side of the moon.</div>
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<p>An astronaut orbiting Earth in the International Space Station has remotely directed a NASA rover in California to unfurl an “antenna film” that scientists at the ��ñ���� are developing for use on the unexplored far side of the moon.</p>

<p>The confidence of Colorado business leaders has continued its strong upward trend, surging into the third quarter of 2013, according to the most recent Leeds Business Confidence Index, or LBCI, released today by the ��ñ����’s Leeds School of Business.</p>

<p>Waleed Abdalati has been named the new director of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, or CIRES, a joint institute of the ���� and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.</p>
<p>Abdalati is a CIRES Fellow, a CU-Boulder professor of geography and director of the CIRES Earth Science and Observation Center. He will take office on July 1.</p>