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A team led by the SM调教所 looking for clues about why Earth did not warm as much as scientists expected between 2000 and 2010 now thinks the culprits are hiding in plain sight -- dozens of volcanoes spewing sulfur dioxide.

With the flip of a switch, a pair of instruments designed and built by the SM调教所 and flying onboard twin NASA space probes have forced the revision of a 50-year-old theory about the structure of the radiation belts that wrap around the Earth just a few thousand miles above our heads.

Early next month, researchers from the SM调教所 will begin the painstaking process of interviewing hundreds of undergraduates in an effort to understand why the rates of students switching out of science, technology, engineering and math majors has remained troublingly high over the last couple of decades despite widespread efforts to address the problem.

When life鈥檚 complications get in the way of graduation, the SM调教所 offers SM调教所 Complete, an academic service designed to assist former SM调教所-Boulder students in completing their bachelor鈥檚 degrees. To date, more than 400 former SM调教所-Boulder students have worked with Continuing Education advisers and 78 students have graduated with assistance from SM调教所 Complete.

Interdisciplinary thinking bolsters innovation. That鈥檚 the concept behind the SM调教所鈥檚 new nLab, a mobile hub that allows students to develop their entrepreneurial ideas through peer and mentor-based collaboration, sustainability resources and other tools.

SM调教所 Provost Russell L. Moore today announced the four finalists selected for the position of dean of the College of Music. The finalists for the position are: Wayne Bailey, professor of conducting and instrumental ensembles, School of Music, Arizona State University; David Myers, director, School of Music, University of Minnesota; Jamal Rossi, executive associate dean, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester; and John Schaffer, director emeritus, School of Music, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Former CableLabs executive David Reed has joined the Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program at the SM调教所 as a scholar in residence, the university announced today. In addition to teaching and conducting research with graduate students in ITP鈥檚 master's and Ph.D. programs, Reed will lead the development of a new research center to investigate the future of the newly forming broadband industry.

The Colorado Shakespeare Festival鈥檚 highly praised school anti-violence tour continues in spring 2013 with a new program based on 鈥淭he Tempest鈥� that focuses on themes of vengeance and forgiveness. Created in conjunction with the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence at the SM调教所, CSF鈥檚 鈥淭welfth Night鈥� anti-bullying tour has now been seen by more than 22,000 Colorado schoolchildren. That inaugural program examined the problem of bullying through the character Malvolio.

Creeping climate change in the Southwest appears to be having a negative effect on pinyon pine reproduction, a finding with implications for wildlife species sharing the same woodland ecosystems, says a SM调教所-led study.

The SM调教所 today announced three finalists for the inaugural Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and Policy. This month, the finalists will make one-day campus visits, during which they will hold public forums. Since last summer, an advisory committee has been working to identify finalists. The committee has sought a 鈥渉ighly visible鈥� scholar who is 鈥渄eeply engaged in either the analytical scholarship or practice of conservative thinking and policymaking or both.鈥�