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When NASA's 30-year-old space shuttle program is shuttered following the Atlantis mission in July, the °µÍø½ûÇø will look back at a rich relationship filled with triumph and tragedy and look ahead to an evolving international program of government and private efforts that will send humans and cargo into orbit.

Today we lost a student and a parent when Makana Von Gortler, and her father, Michael, were found on Missouri Mountain near Buena Vista. They were longtime members of the Boulder community and they shared a lifelong love for the Colorado mountains. We in the CU community mourn their loss and our thoughts and prayers go out to their family.

A chemical smell caused the brief evacuation of the south wing of the °µÍø½ûÇø's Engineering Center at about 10 a.m. today.

Colorado business leaders remained confident, although generally less optimistic about the economy looking ahead to the third quarter, according to the most recent quarterly Leeds Business Confidence Index, or LBCI, released today by the °µÍø½ûÇø's Leeds School of Business.

°µÍø½ûÇø Senior Vice Chancellor Ric Porreca today announced that Vice Chancellor for Administration Frank Bruno will leave the university effective Aug. 1 to assume the position of vice president of administration with Western Disposal Inc. of Boulder.

During the course of the investigation into the portable toilet incident that happened at the Hanuman Yoga Festival in the city of Boulder on June 17, Luke Irvin Chrisco indicated that he had spied on women in other public restrooms in the community. Follow-up investigation has determined that those locations include at least three sites on the °µÍø½ûÇø campus.

A °µÍø½ûÇø research team has developed a new software program allowing neuroscientists to produce single brain images pulled from hundreds of individual studies, trimming weeks and even months from what can be a tedious, time-consuming research process.

°µÍø½ûÇø Provost Russell L. Moore today announced the formation of a five-member steering committee and eight campus discussion groups that will take the next key steps toward creating a school or college in the area of information, communication, journalism, media and technology, or ICJMT.

A novel °µÍø½ûÇø technique to shrink the size of circuitry used in nanotechnology devices like computer chips and solar cells by zapping a substrate with two separate colors of light beams has been optioned to Heidelberg Instruments headquartered in Heidelberg, Germany.

Community gardeners eat more vegetables, exercise more, weigh less and feel healthier than nongardeners -- and even home gardeners -- in the Denver-metro area, researchers led by scholars from the University of Colorado have found.