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The ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ will celebrate Constitution Day with campus events including a student journalism panel and the launch of a new program at the University of Colorado Law School that will send CU law students to high school classrooms throughout the state to discuss the First Amendment.

The University of Colorado Board of Regents today unanimously approved creation of the systemwide CU Biofrontiers Institute, building on the success of what began in 2003 as a grassroots "experiment" in the organization of multidisciplinary sciences.

Arts and Culture Week, the annual celebration of ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ artistic and cultural resources, begins Sept. 12 with a variety of free and low-cost events for campus and community audiences.

DENVER—University of Colorado faculty researchers secured more than $790 million in sponsored research funding in fiscal year 2010-11 to advance scientific work in laboratories and in the field.

During the past 10 years two Colorado professors have collected the widest available base of knowledge about people who practice self-injury and now are offering new insights into people who deliberately injure themselves by cutting, burning, branding and bone-breaking.

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which is carrying a suite of instruments including a $32 million ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ package, has provided scientists with new information that energy from some solar flares is stronger and lasts longer than previously thought.

The Tempest unmanned aircraft -- a ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ-developed system that was the first to intercept a "supercell" thunderstorm -- will be exhibited at a Capitol Hill event on Wednesday, Sept. 7, from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. in room 902 of the Hart Senate Office Building, located on Constitution Avenue between 1st and 2nd Streets NE in Washington, D.C.

A surprising new discovery by the ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ and the University of California, Davis regarding the division of tiny "power plants" within cells known as mitochondria has implications for better understanding a wide variety of human diseases and conditions due to mitochondrial defects.

American pikas, the chirpy, potato-sized denizens of rocky debris in mountain ranges and high plateaus in western North America, are holding their own in the Southern Rocky Mountains, says a new ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ study.

The ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ has partnered with the Mind Research Network in Albuquerque, N.M., to bring to campus a state-of-the-art magnetic resonance scanner that will significantly enhance the neuroimaging capabilities on campus.