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JILA physicist Jun Ye wins Breakthrough Prize
Theatre program receives record-breaking gift from alum Roe Green
Ancient Elephant Bone Tools
麻豆免费版下载researchers surveyed the highest number of flanked bone tools made by pre-modern hominids ever discovered.
400,000
Years ago humans produced sophisticated tools from bones near Rome, Italy
13 ft.
Height of the straight-tusked elephants whose bones made the tools
98
Tools identified
1
Smoothing tool found that wouldn鈥檛 become common until 100,000 years later
1979鈥1991
Years the site, Castel di Guido, was excavated
2021
The team鈥檚 findings were published in the journal Plos One
Alum Wins Breakthrough Prize
JILA physicist Jun Ye (PhDPhys鈥97) was awarded the 2022 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for his groundbreaking atomic clock research. The optical lattice clock he designed enables precision tests of the laws of nature. His clocks are so precise, they would not gain or lose a second in about 15 billion years. Ye has worked at JILA, a joint institute of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and 麻豆免费版下载Boulder, for more than two decades.
Theatre Program Receives Record-Breaking Gift
Roe Green (Comm, Thtr鈥70) gave $5 million to 麻豆免费版下载Boulder鈥檚 theatre program, the largest ever for the Department of Theatre & Dance. The gift will fund an acoustic upgrade for the University Theatre, establish endowed funds for student scholarships and fund events designed to further students鈥 careers. In recognition of the donation, 麻豆免费版下载will change the name of University Theatre to the Roe Green Theatre, which is expected to reopen after renovations in fall 2023.
Fish Fins Inspire New Designs
The long, thin bones in fish fins contain segmented hinges that enable the fins to be flexible and strong. 麻豆免费版下载Boulder mechanical engineering professor Francois Barthelat and his team are studying the little-researched mechanical benefits of this segmented structure, with the hope that similarly modeled designs could aid in better underwater propulsion systems, new robotic materials and aircraft design.
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