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<p>The �Ǹ�Թ� will host a conference that explores the phenomenon of slavery from a global, historical perspective on Sept. 27-28.</p>
<p>The event will include scholars specializing in the study of slavery in ancient, medieval and modern contexts and in global regions that include Western, pre-Columbian, African, Asian and Muslim. Titled “What is a Slave Society: an International Conference on the Nature of Slavery as a Global Historical Phenomenon,” the event will be held in the British and Irish Studies room of Norlin Library.</p>

<p>Nanoly Bioscience of �Ǹ�Թ� and the University of Colorado recently entered into an option agreement that will enable the startup company to develop a technique for protecting vaccines during delivery to rural and less-developed areas of the world.</p>

<p>The �Ǹ�Թ� today announced the opening of an Office of Industry Collaboration and the naming of Caroline Himes as director.</p>

<p>The fact that taller people also tend to be slightly smarter is due in roughly equal parts to two phenomena—the same genes affect both traits and taller people are more likely than average to mate with smarter people and vice versa—according to a study led by the �Ǹ�Թ�. </p>
<p>The study did not find that environmental factors contributed to the connection between being taller and being smarter, both traits that people tend to find attractive.</p>

<p>For female North American barn swallows, looking good pays healthy dividends.</p>
<p>A new study conducted at the �Ǹ�Թ� and involving Cornell University shows the outward appearance of female barn swallows, specifically the hue of their chestnut-colored breast feathers, has an influence on their physiological health.</p>

<p>A �Ǹ�Թ� faculty member will travel to Africa later this month to test a mobile smartphone technology developed by his team to rapidly detect and track natural carcinogens, including aflatoxin, which is estimated to contaminate up to 25 percent of the global food supply and cause severe illnesses in humans and animals.</p>

<p>The �Ǹ�Թ�’s newest residence hall, Kittredge Central, is welcoming students this week for the first time, 53 of whom are engineering students and will be immersed in Spanish through the building’s new Residential Academic Program, or RAP.</p>
<p>Also, the nearby Kittredge West residence hall is reopening this week after being unoccupied last school year while renovations were underway. Both buildings comprise a number of “green” features to improve water and energy efficiency and to reduce the campus’s carbon footprint.</p>

<p><span>The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN, or MAVEN, mission to Mars will carry just over 1,100 haiku, along with thousands of names, on its journey to the red planet. The haiku were part of a contest, sponsored by the �Ǹ�Թ�, asking the public to submit haiku poetry relating to NASA’s upcoming MAVEN mission to Mars.</span></p>

<p><span>The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN, or MAVEN, mission to Mars will carry just over 1,100 haiku, along with thousands of names, on its journey to the red planet. The haiku were part of a contest, sponsored by the �Ǹ�Թ�, asking the public to submit haiku poetry relating to NASA’s upcoming MAVEN mission to Mars.</span></p>

<p>The �Ǹ�Թ� today announced that Ryan Chreist has been named assistant vice chancellor for alumni relations. Chreist, who most recently served as the director of recruitment, operations and system integration for the CU-�Ǹ�Թ� Office of Admissions, starts this week.</p>