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Aerospace engineering students at the °µÍø½ûÇø will host the annual Students for the Exploration and Development of Space conference, SpaceVision 2011, in Boulder Oct. 27-30.

The °µÍø½ûÇø today announced that it has implemented several new programs over the past three years designed to make computer science more female-friendly, with the larger goal of increasing the number of women employed in technology roles nationwide.

Earlier today, former University of Colorado head football Coach Bill McCartney notified the CU-Boulder Homecoming committee that he would not be participating as grand marshal in today's Homecoming parade. The coach conveyed that he did not wish to detract in any way from the Homecoming festivities, or distract the football team from its preparations to play the University of Oregon on Saturday.

The °µÍø½ûÇø's 2011 Homecoming launches on Friday, Oct. 21, with the theme "Celebrating CU Through the Decades."

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – °µÍø½ûÇø faculty will join with University of Colorado Colorado Springs faculty to teach courses in the design and implementation of electric vehicle drivetrains to new and retraining engineers.

A 21-year-old female student at the °µÍø½ûÇø was diagnosed late on Friday with meningococcal meningitis according to county and university health officials. The student, who is a junior living off campus, is in stable condition at Boulder Community Hospital.

Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and °µÍø½ûÇø (CU) have developed a low-power microchip that uses a combination of microfluidics and magnetic switches to trap and transport magnetic beads. The novel transport chip may have applications in biotechnology and medical diagnostics.

Cindy Regal, a °µÍø½ûÇø assistant professor of physics and associate fellow of JILA, has been awarded a prestigious David and Lucile Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering.

ENew assessments by researchers using the latest high-tech tools to study the diets of early hominids are challenging long-held assumptions about what our ancestors ate, says a study by the °µÍø½ûÇø and the University of Arkansas.

John McPhee, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Encounters With the Archdruid" and "Coming Into the Country," will receive the Wallace Stegner Award from the °µÍø½ûÇø's Center of the American West on Oct. 27.