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<p>The Astronomical Society of the Pacific has named Douglas Duncan as the 2011 recipient of the Richard H. Emmons Award for excellence in college astronomy teaching.</p>

<p>The U.S. Senate has voted to confirm ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado Boulder Distinguished Professor Carl Lineberger as a member of the National Science Board. He was nominated for the position by President Barack Obama in April.</p>

<p>An international team of astronomers led by the California Institute of Technology and involving the ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado Boulder has discovered the largest and farthest reservoir of water ever detected in the universe.</p>

<p>A $670 million NASA orbiting mission to probe the past climate of Mars led by the ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado Boulder reached a major milestone last week when it successfully completed its Mission Critical Design Review by the space agency.</p>

<p>The ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado Boulder is involved with five different space science payloads ranging from antibody tests that may lead to new bone-loss treatments to an experiment to improve vaccine effectiveness for combating salmonella when Atlantis thunders skyward July 8 on the last of NASA's 135 space shuttle missions.</p>

<p>When NASA's 30-year-old space shuttle program is shuttered following the Atlantis mission in July, the ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado Boulder will look back at a rich relationship filled with triumph and tragedy and look ahead to an evolving international program of government and private efforts that will send humans and cargo into orbit.</p>

<p>Samples of icy spray shooting from Saturn's moon Enceladus collected during Cassini spacecraft flybys show the strongest evidence yet for the existence of a large-scale, subterranean saltwater ocean, says a new international study led by the ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Heidelberg and involving the ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado Boulder.</p>

<p>A ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado Boulder team will be part of a mission selected yesterday by NASA to launch a spacecraft to an asteroid and pluck samples from its surface to better understand the formation of the solar system and perhaps even the first inklings of life.</p>

<p>Two faculty members from the ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado Boulder have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, a top honor recognizing scientists and engineers for distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.</p>

<p>The ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado Boulder has been named one of two finalists to host the headquarters for the National Solar Observatory, the nation's top ground-based scientific research program studying solar physics and space weather.</p>