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  • The Panama Canal was constructed in the early 1900s by the U.S. government, which tackled public-health threats to workers in some cases and to some degree. But the narrative is more complex than is sometimes conveyed, a CU historian contends. Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress.
    ‘Pulling the teeth of the tropics’ … for some
    Before the 20th century, the tropics were widely feared as home to dread diseases such as yellow fever and malaria. Building the Panama Canal helped change that view, but the brighter perception didn’t fully match the grittier truth.
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  • Margaret Murnane
    Distinguished prof wins Ireland’s top science prize
    Ãå±±½ûµØ Distinguished Professor Margaret Murnane has been awarded Ireland’s top science award, the RDS Irish Times Boyle Medal for Scientific Excellence, for her pioneering work that has transformed the field of ultrafast
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  • Baylor Fox-Kemper, assistant professor of atmospheric and ocean sciences at the University of Colorado. Photo courtesy of Baylor Fox-Kemper.
    Oceanographer wins early career award
    Baylor Fox-Kemper, assistant professor of atmospheric and ocean sciences at the University of Colorado has won the Ocean Sciences Early Career Award from the American Geophysical Union.Fox-Kemper was cited for his “fundamental contributions to
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  • Claire Farago
    Two CU-Ãå±±½ûµØ professors named Fulbright Scholars
    Claire FaragoTwo Ãå±±½ûµØ professors are conducting research in Finland and the United Kingdom as Fulbright Scholars for the 2011-12 academic year.Professor Claire Farago of CU-Ãå±±½ûµØ’s art and art history department is doing
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  • Ebrahim Moosa, an associate professor of Islamic studies at Duke University
    Viewing the Koran as holy and historical text
    Noted scholar of Islam speaks at CU as part of effort to honor Professor Frederick DennyLong before Egyptians rose up against dictator Hosni Mubarak, Egyptian authorities prosecuted an Islamic scholar who argued that Muslims should view the Koran as
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  • Michael Huemer is one of eight university faculty members who have been named CU Center for the Humanities and the Arts Fellows.
    The ‘moral illusion’ of governmental authority
    Michael Huemer asks his students to imagine being a neighborhood vigilante. Suppose, he says, you live in a crime-ridden neighborhood, and nothing’s being done about it. So you hunt down criminals and lock them in your basement.After awhile, you
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  • John Hall, a University of Colorado Nobel Prize laureate and member of the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics
    Nobel laureate wins guv’s research award
    John Hall, a University of Colorado Nobel Prize laureate and member of the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, has won a 2010 Governor’s Award for High-Impact Research.In a ceremony in October, Hall accepted the Foundational Technology
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  • CU graduate education gets top marks
    Highly ranked departments say they’re gratified but not surprisedA number of the University of Colorado at Ãå±±½ûµØ’s doctoral programs, including those in geography, integrative physiology psychology and neuroscience and astrophysical and planetary
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  • Assistant Professor Cindy Regal is the University of Colorado’s first-ever Clare Boothe Luce Professorship Award recipient.
    Physicist wins CU’s first-ever Clare Boothe Luce Professorship Award
    The Department of Physics is pleased to present the University of Colorado’s first-ever Clare Boothe Luce Professorship Award to Assistant Professor Cindy Regal.According to the Henry Luce Foundation Web site, the Clare Boothe Luce Award is designed
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  • Polar stratospheric clouds, or PSCs, are one of the focuses of professor Margaret Tolbert's research. (image courtesy of NASA)
    Chemist wins university’s highest faculty honor
    The University of Colorado Board of Regents has bestowed its highest faculty honor, the designation of distinguished professor, on Margaret Tolbert, a chemistry professor. Two other CU professors also gained this distinction.Distinguished professors
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