A few doors down from University of Colorado President Bruce Benson's Denver office, CU Regents on Wednesday discussed details of a search committee that one day will be tasked with finding the...
While in his 20s, Ben Kirshner worked as an educator with a youth organization in the Mission District in San Francisco. He felt called to be a teacher of middle- and high-school students, and enjoyed working in a setting that encouraged experiential learning and community-building. But after five years, he became interested in working with college-aged students and researching topics related to learning and youth development.
“Our results, in particular, have underscored the potential significance of atmospheric loss on planets around M-dwarf stars,” Bruce Jakosky, the MAVEN principal investigator, and a planetary...