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The ninth annual Buffalo Racing Car Show will be held on the University of Colorado at Boulder campus Sunday, Sept. 11, from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. featuring all types of cars from classic to exotic, foreign to domestic and street cars to race cars. Spectators at the car show will serve as judges, and proceeds will benefit the project racecar of the CU chapter of the Society of Automotive Engineers, which also will be on display at the show.

Campus administrators at the University of Colorado at Boulder have begun implementing plans to improve security for the 6,000 servers and 20,000 computers in use on campus, particularly for those that contain sensitive data that is more likely to be targeted in cases of identity theft. Although the full plan will require further review and funding approval to implement, parts of the plan already are under way, according to Bobby Schnabel, vice provost for academic and campus technology.

A new case of unauthorized computer access has been identified at the University of Colorado at Boulder as a result of current investigations and new procedures that were put in place following a series of computer breaches during the last month. The potentially exposed information includes about 49,000 database entries on a server containing ancillary information used by the Registrar's Office. The information is not a primary database of the Registrar's Office.

Note to Editors: Contents embargoed for use until 12:01 a.m. Friday, Aug. 19. The University of Colorado at Boulder was ranked in a tie for 34th among the nation's public universities offering doctoral degrees in U.S. News & World Report's 2006 Best Colleges undergraduate rankings released today. CU-Boulder was tied for 34th with Clemson University, North Carolina State-Raleigh and Virginia Tech. In the ranking of all doctoral universities, public and private, CU-Boulder was tied for 78th with five other schools.

Bipolar adolescents, saddled with biochemical imbalances that make mood swings far more severe than the raging hormones and mood changes common to healthy teens, may have a strong ally in their fight to control the disease.

As expected, the fall 2005 freshman class at the University of Colorado at Boulder will be smaller than last year, with freshmen numbering about 5,000 and overall enrollment projected at about 28,800 degree-seeking students. The 5,000 new freshmen projected for this fall represents a decrease of about 138 or 2.7 percent from the previous year's total of 5,138. Last year the total number of degree-seeking students enrolled was 29,258.

Editors: Spelling of Brion in the fourth paragraph is cq. University of Colorado at Boulder researchers have identified neural signals in the brain that could lead to a better understanding of conditions like obsessive-compulsive disorder and Parkinson's disease. The signals, pinpointed by the CU-Boulder team, predict whether people are biased to learn more from positive than negative outcomes of their decisions, according to Michael Frank, a research associate in the psychology department and lead author of the study.

Note to Editors: Images of the research sites are available by contacting Jim Scott at (303) 492-3114 or jim.scott@colorado.edu . The National Science Foundation has awarded a University of Colorado at Boulder research group $1.75 million to identify and analyze a potpourri of microbes new to science that are residing in the harsh, cold climate of Colorado's high mountains.

The University of Colorado at Boulder and the city of Boulder have developed several programs -- on campus and off -- over the last two decades to help ensure the safety of university students, and campus officials want students to learn about them. Emergency phone kiosks, improved campus lighting and a variety of programs have been put in place to help keep the CU-Boulder campus safe.

As many children head back to school or start school for the first time, some parents also learn that all may not be right with their child's ability to concentrate and learn. One of the first questions from these parents is whether or not their child has attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, according to University of Colorado at Boulder research associate Nomita Chhabildas.