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CU Wins Fourth Nobel Prize

Posted on December 1, 2012 by Marc Killinger

David Wineland, CU’s fifth Nobel Laureate won the award for “groundbreaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems.”
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Struggling with the college e(q)uation

Posted on September 1, 2010 by Valerie Otero

In high school I used to say I was going to lead a revolution in education, although I didn’t know what exactly it would look like. As a senior in high school I didn’t even know how to apply for college or what the SAT was. No one in my family had ever attended college.
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Syllabus spotlight for spring 2010

Posted on March 1, 2010 by Staff

Flow Visualization: A Course in the Physics and Art of Fluid Flow
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By the numbers

Posted on June 1, 2009 by Staff

4,255 Number of bachelor’s degrees conferred at spring 2009 commencement. 3,591 Number of bachelor’s degrees conferred in 1989. 1,500 Number of undergraduates who graduated in 1959. 48 Percent of students who graduate in four years at peer universities. 41 Percent of CU-Boulder students who graduate in four years. 20 National ranking the physics department received in U.S. News & World Report. 18 Age of prodigy Eric Eason (ApMath, EngrPhys’09) who graduated in May. 1 National ranking CU’s graduate program in atomic/molecular/optical physics received in U.S. News & World Report.
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