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Aerospace engineering students at the University of Colorado at ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ have developed an initiative called "We Want Our Future" to inspire the nation's youth and strengthen their interest in science, technology, engineering and math.

Forensic scientists may soon have a valuable new item in their toolkits -- a way to identify individuals using unique, telltale types of hand bacteria left behind on objects like keyboards and computer mice, says a new University of Colorado at ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ study.

A research team led by the University of Colorado at ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ has discovered a previously unknown cellular "switch" that may provide researchers with a new means of triggering programmed cell death, findings with implications for treating cancer.

A new scientific study packs a double surprise about the chemistry happening in the air around us. Chlorine, a chemical usually kicked into the atmosphere by sea spray, is more abundant than expected in air far from any coastline, and looks to be interacting with manmade pollution at night in ways that might affect air quality and climate.

The University of Colorado Real Estate Center and the U.S. Green Building Council Colorado Chapter today are beginning a pilot program to prepare CU Real Estate Center students to take the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, or LEED, Green Associate exam.

The University of Colorado at ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ will host a topping-out ceremony March 12 at 10 a.m. to celebrate placement of the last steel beam for the Institute of Behavioral Science building, which is under construction on the corner of Grandview Avenue and 15th Street.

The INVST Community Leadership Program at the University of Colorado at ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ has been involving CU students in community service since 1990, and on March 12-14, alumni of the program will gather in ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ for a 20th anniversary reunion weekend.

University of Colorado at ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ alumna Jane Butcher, who with her late husband Charlie Butcher has played a key role in supporting CU-ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ's rapidly expanding biotechnology research efforts, has pledged $1 million toward the Jennie Smoly Caruthers Biotechnology Building being built on the university's East Campus.

University of Colorado at ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ officials confirmed Saturday that all six CU-ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ students who were studying in Chile or had weekend travel plans to the country for the start of an academic program are safe.

A tiny communications satellite designed and built by University of Colorado at ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ undergraduates has been selected as one of three university research satellites to be launched into orbit in November as part of a NASA space education initiative.