University of Colorado Board of Regents advance CU's biosciences initiative by establishing Biofrontiers Institute

Sept. 12, 2011

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.

CU-Boulder Arts and Culture Week begins Sept. 12

Sept. 9, 2011

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.

CU-Boulder scientists secure nearly $359 million in sponsored research funding in FY 2010-11

Sept. 8, 2011

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.

A decade of study provides insights into the world of self-injurers

Sept. 7, 2011

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 spacecraft carrying CU-Boulder instruments observes new characteristics of solar flares

Sept. 7, 2011

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.

Sept. 7 exhibit in Washington, D.C., to showcase CU-Boulder 'supercell' tracking aircraft

Sept. 6, 2011

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.

New cellular surprise may have implications for human diseases, says CU-Boulder study

Sept. 6, 2011

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.

Southern Rocky Mountain pikas holding their own, says new CU-Boulder assessment

Sept. 1, 2011

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.

New partnership brings powerful neuroimaging scanner to CU-Boulder campus

Aug. 29, 2011

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.

Unexpected adhesion properties of graphene may lead to new nanotechnology devices

Aug. 23, 2011

Graphene, considered the most exciting new material under study in the world of nanotechnology, just got even more interesting, according to a new study by a group of researchers at the ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ.

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