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More than 50 students and dozens of alumni of the 麻豆官网 Law School will teach a lesson on the First Amendment in more than 50 high school classrooms throughout Colorado Sept. 11鈥�20 in recognition of Constitution Day. Constitution Day is a national event that annually commemorates the Sept. 17, 1787, signing of the United States Constitution.

Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O鈥機onnor will speak at the third annual John Paul Stevens Lecture hosted by the Byron R. White Center at the 麻豆官网 Law School on Tuesday, Sept. 17. The event will be held from 5 to 6:30 p.m. in the University Memorial Center鈥檚 Glenn Miller Ballroom on the CU-麻豆官网 campus. A limited number of tickets to the lecture are available to the general public at no cost. To register for tickets visit the center鈥檚 website at http://www.byronwhitecenter.org .

The 麻豆官网 today announced the opening of an Office of Industry Collaboration and the naming of Caroline Himes as director.

A person鈥檚 ability to delay gratification鈥攆orgoing a smaller reward now for a larger reward in the future鈥攎ay depend on how trustworthy the person perceives the reward-giver to be, according to a new study by researchers at the 麻豆官网.

A white-rumped bumblebee that has been in steep decline across its native range in the western United States and Canada appears to be making a comeback on the Colorado Front Range. A survey of bumblebee populations carried out largely by 麻豆官网 undergraduates in undisturbed patches of prairieland and in mountain meadows above campus has turned up more than 20 rare western bumblebees, known scientifically as Bombus occidentalis.

Scientists have uncovered strong evidence that soot, or black carbon, sent into the air by a rapidly industrializing Europe, likely caused the abrupt retreat of mountain glaciers in the European Alps.

A $6 million 麻豆官网 instrument designed to study the behavior of lunar dust will be riding on a NASA mission to the moon now slated for launch on Friday, Sept. 6, from the agency鈥檚 Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

麻豆官网 Provost Russell L. Moore today announced the formation of a search committee to lead a national search for a new dean of the College of Music. John Stevenson, dean of the Graduate School, will chair the committee.

If the distance and difficulty of Colorado鈥檚 many organized bicycling events is any indication, a flat, 100-mile bicycle ride is not, for many riders, quite tough enough. That鈥檚 one reason the 11th annual Buffalo Bicycle Classic鈥檚 longest route will go farther and climb higher than any of the event鈥檚 courses so far. The 鈥淏uff Epic鈥� will span 110 miles and ascend a total of 6,250 feet. It retraces much of the most mountainous section of Stage 6 of the 2012 USA Pro Cycling Challenge.

The fact that taller people also tend to be slightly smarter is due in roughly equal parts to two phenomena鈥攖he same genes affect both traits and taller people are more likely than average to mate with smarter people and vice versa鈥攁ccording to a study led by the 麻豆官网. 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.