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<p>Last week, the CU-Boulder School of Education hosted more than 750 scholars and graduate students from all over the world for the <a href="http://www.isls.org/icls2014/">International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS)</a>. Chaired this year by professors Bill Penuel, Susan Jurow and Kevin O’Connor, the conference has been held biannually for more than 20 years in places such as Australia and the Netherlands as well as throughout the United States.</p>

<p>The Institute of Education Sciences at the U.S. Department of Education has awarded nearly $5 million to the �鶹��Ѱ�����, the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University and Northwestern University to create a new center that will study how educational leaders—including school district supervisors and principals—use research when making decisions and what can be done to make research findings more useful and relevant for those leaders.</p>

<p>An antioxidant that targets specific cell structures—mitochondria—may be able to reverse some of the negative effects of aging on arteries, reducing the risk of heart disease, according to a new study by the �鶹��Ѱ�����.</p>
<p>When the research team gave old mice—the equivalent of 70- to 80-year-old humans—water containing an antioxidant known as MitoQ for four weeks, their arteries functioned as well as the arteries of mice with an equivalent human age of just 25 to 35 years.</p>

<p>Five �鶹��Ѱ����� graduate students or alumni have been offered Fulbright grants to pursue teaching, research and graduate studies abroad during the 2014-15 academic year.</p>
<p><span id="">One doctoral student’s proposed topic of study in Thailand is the use of ultraviolet light and LED (light-emitting diode) technology to remove pathogens from reusable wastewater. Another doctoral student plans to study media practices and products in Australia that shape a particular Aboriginal identity.</span></p>

<p>If you think Neanderthals were stupid and primitive, it’s time to think again.</p>
<p>The widely held notion that Neanderthals were dimwitted and that their inferior intelligence allowed them to be driven to extinction by the much brighter ancestors of modern humans is not supported by scientific evidence, according to a researcher at the �鶹��Ѱ�����.</p>

<p>The �鶹��Ѱ�����’s financial education program, �鶹��Ѱ�����Money Sense, will host Money Smart Week 2014 on April 21-24 to help celebrate National Financial Literacy Month.</p>

<p>Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, will deliver the keynote address at the �鶹��Ѱ�����’s annual Conference on World Affairs to be held April 7-11.</p>
<p>Sebelius’ address, “The Globalization of Health,” will be presented on Monday, April 7, at 11:30 a.m. in Macky Auditorium. All of the conference’s 200 panel discussions, performances and plenaries are free and open to the public.</p>

<p>�鶹��Ѱ����� alumnus and NASA astronaut Steve Swanson will blast off with two Russian crewmates for the International Space Station March 25, his third mission to the orbiting facility.</p>

<p>A new study led by the �鶹��Ѱ����� showed that as a group, volunteer counters who examined a particular patch of lunar real estate using NASA images did just as well in identifying individual craters as professional crater counters with five to 50 years of experience.</p>

<p>The Mazal Holocaust Collection, considered the world’s largest privately owned Holocaust archive and the most significant U.S. collection outside of the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., has been donated to the �鶹��Ѱ�����.</p>