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Chickadees, nuthatches and warblers foraging their way through forests have been shown to spur the growth of pine trees in the West by as much as one-third, according to a new University of Colorado at Boulder study.

For the second time in eight months, a NASA space shuttle will carry a suite of University of Colorado at Boulder experiments to the International Space Station in an educational effort involving thousands of K-12 students around the world.

MEDIA ADVISORY University of Colorado at Boulder students will begin to install the key element - roof-integrated photovoltaic panels - on what promises to be their most innovative Solar Decathlon entry to date this Thursday, Aug. 2. The Solar Decathlon is a competition among 20 university teams to design, build and operate the most innovative home powered completely by solar energy.

The Multicultural Engineering Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder will host the second of three Western summer camps aimed at expanding educational opportunities for Hispanic students interested in science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM. The camps are the first project of the Hispanic Alliance for STEM Opportunities, a partnership formed earlier this year by the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Conference and IBM.

University of Colorado at Boulder Professor Andrew Staehelin has been named the first recipient of the new Fellow of the American Society of Plant Biologists award in 2007 for his distinguished contributions to plant biology.

Next month, a University of Colorado at Boulder graduate student will complete the first leg of a wireless network that will introduce Internet communications to a remote region of PeruÂ’s Amazon rain forest.

Researcher Dave Rusch remembers sitting up all night during the Sputnik era, watching for signs of Soviet satellites orbiting the earth over his boyhood home in Iowa. The dawn of the Space Age so stirred his imagination he built his own telescope a few years later. "I remember saying to myself, 'Boy, wouldn't it be exciting to study data that came back from a satellite?' " said Rusch, a senior research associate at the Laboratory for Atmospheric Space Physics, or LASP.

Paul Tabolt, vice chancellor for administration at the University of Colorado at Boulder who played a role in every major building project since arriving on campus in 1991, announced today that he will retire Oct. 31. Tabolt joined the campus as director of Facilities Management and was named vice chancellor for administration in 1997. His division employs about 650 people and manages 9.2 million square feet of building space on more than 1,000 acres.

MEDIA ADVISORY July 23, 2007 Media covering the special meeting of the University of Colorado Board of Regents meeting on Tuesday, July 24, at the University of Colorado at Boulder's University Memorial Center should be aware of the following information. CU-Boulder Professor Ward Churchill has requested a hearing in front of the Board of Regents based on CU President Hank Brown's recommendation to dismiss him. Regent policy provides Professor Churchill an opportunity to request a hearing before the Board during executive session. Media should note the following: