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Recipients of the University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø Community Builder Brick Awards will be honored at a ceremony on Wednesday, April 23, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the University Memorial Center Aspen Rooms 285-289.

Students at the University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø this week are celebrating Engineering Days, a week-long technology fest featuring the annual College Egg Drop, Vertical Take-off Challenge and Engineering Carnival. Co-sponsored by the University of Colorado Engineering Council, corporate sponsors, and professional engineering societies, E-Days is an annual celebration of the engineering profession and a chance for students to apply their engineering skills in fun and creative ways.

A new study suggests that agriculture can successfully coexist with continuing population growth and urban sprawl in some areas of the Great Plains. The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Michigan, Colorado State University and the University of Colorado, found that despite explosive population growth over the last 50 years in Denver, Â鶹¹ÙÍø and other eastern Colorado Plains cities, total harvested area in the region increased by 5 percent and the amount of irrigated land that is harvested jumped by 73 percent.

As the war winds down in Iraq, many teachers still may find themselves fighting battles in their classrooms, according to a University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø education professor. In schools throughout the United States, students and teachers have tried to figure out how the war in Iraq should be addressed in the classroom. Facing conflicting demands from students, parents, administrators and their own sense of professional responsibility, teachers are often caught in the middle, according to CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø Professor Kevin Welner.