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<p>Longtime Boulder resident Paul N. Eklund has made a transformative gift to the opera program at the College of Music at the Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ that, combined with additional university commitments, establishes a $2 million endowment for the program, to be renamed the Eklund Family Opera Program in honor of the gift.</p>

<p>NASA’s newest orbiter at Mars, MAVEN, took precautions to avoid harm from a dust-spewing comet that flew near Mars yesterday and is studying the flyby’s effects on the Red Planet’s atmosphere, according to Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ Professor Bruce Jakosky, principal investigator on the mission.</p>

<p>NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft has provided scientists their first look at a storm of energetic solar particles at Mars and produced unprecedented ultraviolet images of the tenuous oxygen, hydrogen and carbon coronas surrounding the Red Planet, said Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ Professor Bruce Jakosky, the mission’s principal investigator.</p>

<p>A team of scientists including a Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ professor used NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to make the most detailed global map yet of the glow from a giant, oddball planet orbiting another star, an object twice as massive as Jupiter and hot enough to melt steel.</p>

<p>Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ Associate Professor Amy Palmer of the BioFrontiers Institute was awarded a coveted Director’s Pioneer Award from the National Institutes of Health this week, a five-year, $3.7 million grant made to select researchers showing exceptional creativity in solving pressing biomedical and behavioral research problems.</p>

<p>NASA has awarded a team led by the Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ more than $7 million to study aspects of the origins, evolution, distribution and future of life in the universe.</p>

<p><span>A novel dental restorative material that should make life easier for dental care experts and their patients, which is based on technology developed by a team of Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ engineers, was unveiled Oct. 1 by the 3M Company.</span></p>

<p>Soil microbes that thrive in the deserts, rainforests, prairies and forests of the world can also be found living beneath New York City’s Central Park, according to a surprising new study led by Colorado State University and the Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ.</p>
<p>The research team analyzed 596 soil samples collected from across Central Park’s 843 acres and discovered a stunning diversity of below-ground life, most of which had never been documented before.</p>

<p>The perception that Colorado’s Front Range wildfires are becoming increasingly severe does not hold much water scientifically, according to a massive new study led by the Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ and Humboldt State University in Arcata, Calif.</p>

<p>A new study led by the Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ found that different strategies used by states to reduce power plant emissions -- direct ones such as emission caps and indirect ones like encouraging renewable energy -- are both effective. The study is the first analysis of its kind.</p>