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Graduate programs at the SMµ÷½ÌËù continue to earn national prominence based on the latest annual rankings from U.S. News & World Report. SMµ÷½ÌËù-Boulder schools and programs garnered 25 mentions in the 2012 edition of Best Graduate Schools, including five ranked in the top 10 of their fields.

A new study involving the SMµ÷½ÌËù shows clear evidence of the continuous control of fire by Neanderthals in Europe dating back roughly 400,000 years, yet another indication that they weren't dimwitted brutes as often portrayed.

When a team of researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the SMµ÷½ÌËù's Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences raced to the scene of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill to assess the disaster's impact on air quality last year, they found more than they expected.

The deadly Russian heat wave of 2010 was due to a natural atmospheric phenomenon often associated with weather extremes, according to a new study by scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the SMµ÷½ÌËù's Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, or CIRES

Stan Brakhage loved poetry and befriended poets but dubbed himself a failed poet. Many experts disagreed. He was, they said, a consummate poet -- one who spoke in the language of film and measured his meter in frames.

A new SMµ÷½ÌËù study indicates an ancient form of complementary medicine may be effective in helping to treat people with mild traumatic brain injury, a finding that may have implications for some U.S. war veterans returning home.

The Glenn Miller Archive at the SMµ÷½ÌËù American Music Research Center has acquired one of the world's most significant collections of Big Band Era recordings and memorabilia.

Ignoring the stresses of an unemployed spouse's job search does not bode well for the employed spouse's job productivity or home life, says a SMµ÷½ÌËù professor.

A powerful solar flare has ushered in the largest space weather storm in at least four years and has already disrupted some ground communications on Earth, said SMµ÷½ÌËù Professor Daniel Baker, an internationally known space weather expert.

Up to two-thirds of Earth's permafrost likely will disappear by 2200 as a result of warming temperatures, unleashing vast quantities of carbon into the atmosphere, says a new study by the SMµ÷½ÌËù's Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences.