Science & Technology
- <p>°Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï 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.</p>
- <p>A novel °Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï 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.</p>
- <p>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.</p>
- <p>Samples of icy spray shooting from Saturn's moon Enceladus collected during Cassini spacecraft flybys show the strongest evidence yet for the existence of a large-scale, subterranean saltwater ocean, says a new international study led by the University of Heidelberg and involving the °Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï.</p>
- <p>A famed Russian director will direct one of four plays to be offered at this summer's Colorado Shakespeare Festival at the °Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï, including two bilingual performances.</p>
- <p>The °Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï will host the 2011 Linguistics Institute from July 7 to Aug. 2, a prestigious gathering of faculty and students from around the world that also will feature free films, workshops and lectures open to the public.</p>
- <p>As the nation recognizes the 150th anniversary of the Civil War's start, public interest has been rekindled in the war and the numerous memorials and monuments marking historic figures, sites and battlegrounds in states around the country.</p>
- <p>The National Science Foundation has awarded the °Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï a six-year, $5.9 million grant to continue intensive studies of long-term ecological changes in Colorado's high mountains, both natural and human-caused, over decades and centuries.</p>
- <p>An international research team led by Japan and including the °Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï may have taken a significant step in discovering why matter trumped antimatter at the time of the Big Bang, helping to create virtually all of the galaxies and stars in the universe.</p>
- <p>A new °Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï study indicates the infestation of trees by mountain pine beetles in the high country across the West could potentially trigger earlier snowmelt and increase water yields from snowpack that accumulates beneath affected trees.</p>