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• Pearson Knowledge Technologies Research Shows Student Practice With Online Summarization Tool Improves Writing and Reading Skills

  - 2006-12-12

  Five-Year Research Study at University of Colorado at Boulder Demonstrates Academic Value of Summary Street, Automated Reading and Writing Evaluation Tool BOULDER, Colo. -- Pearson Knowledge Technologies today announced results of research revealing that the use of Summary Street, the company's automated tool to evaluate the content of students'...

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• New Unidirectional Molecular Rotor May Lead to Tiny Sensors, Pumps, Switches.

  - 2005-10-06

  Byline: University of Colorado, Boulder BOULDER, Colo., Oct. 6 AScribe Newswire -- A University of Colorado at Boulder team has developed the first computer-generated model of a tiny, waterwheel-like molecular rotor that has been harnessed to rotate in one direction at different speeds in...

  Tags: computer, molecule, Nanotechnology, National Academy of Sciences, PRODUCTIVITY, sensor, substrate, University of Colorado

• Merritt - Witmer

  - 2005-04-16

  Colorado Springs residents John and Debra Merritt and Robert and Carla Witmer are pleased to announce the engagement of Joanna Lynn Merritt and Jeremy Taylor Witmer. Joanna attended Colorado Springs Christian High School, Pikes Peak Community College and Northwestern College. She works as a Registered Nurse at Penrose Main. ...

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• Novel Laboratory Technique Identifies High Levels of Pathogens in Therapy Pool.

  - 2005-03-14

  Byline: University of Colorado, Boulder BOULDER, Colo., March 14 AScribe Newswire -- A research team using a novel genetic cloning and sequencing technique has identified a surprisingly high number of airborne pathogens in a Midwest therapy pool, pointing to the need for closer scrutiny...

  Tags: Biotechnology, PRODUCTIVITY, RNA, San Diego State University, technique, therapy, University of Colorado

• Titus - Clymer

  - 2004-04-24

  Dale and Suzanne Titus of Glenwood Springs announce the engagement of their daughter, Melissa, to Michael Clymer, son of Thomas Clymer of Ft. Collins, and Sarah Berger and Jerry Jelinek of Colorado Springs. Melissa graduated from Glenwood Springs High School in 1993 and attended the University of...

  Tags: FINANCE, PRODUCTIVITY, University of Colorado

• Untapped power. (Slants & Trends).

  - 2003-06-01

  UNTAPPED POWER. The power of computing can change education, science and other fields in ways yet untapped and unimagined, contends a University of Colorado futurist. "I think everybody underestimates the importance of the computer," said Douglas Robertson, a professor. "Nobody knows enough today...

  Tags: computer, PRODUCTIVITY, professor, University of Colorado

• C. U. prof wins fellowship grant

  - 2002-11-01

  Congratulations to University of Colorado Associate Professor Daniel Jurafsky, an expert in linguistics and computer science, who became the sixth CU-Boulder faculty member to be awarded a MacArthur Fellowship "genius" grant. Jurafsky, 39, was one of 29 recipients of the no-strings-attached grants this year. The check was for $500,000.

  Tags: genius, PRODUCTIVITY, professor, University of Colorado

• Space Command contracts for training at CU-Springs

  - 2002-02-15

  Under an agreement announced Thursday, the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs will start a computer network security program, and its first client will be the U.S. Space Command. Beginning in March, CU-Springs will be the home of the Network Information and Space Security Center, where 15 Space...

  Tags: computer, NETWORKING, PRODUCTIVITY, security, training, University of Colorado

• Nobel Nod. (Research Notes).(winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics)(Brief Article)

  - 2002-02-01

  Three researchers--Americans Eric A. Cornell of NIST and Carl E. Wieman of the University of Colorado in Boulder and German Wolfgang Ketterle of MIT--won the Nobel Prize in Physics for creating a Bose-Einstein condensate. This new state of matter could be described as a super-cold gas,...

  Tags: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, NIST, PRODUCTIVITY, University of Colorado

• Denver Artificial Intelligence Professor Develops Strategic-Warfare Software.

  - 2001-10-11

  By Jennifer Beauprez, The Denver Post Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 11--Thirty years ago, Boris Stilman couldn't find a job in Soviet Russia because he was Jewish. So the scientist took the only job he could find at age 21. Little...

  Tags: advisor, Boeing Co., computer, Denver, job, PRODUCTIVITY, strategy, U.S., University of Colorado