The PhET Interactive Simulations project at the Â鶹¹ÙÍø today was named as a laureate of The Tech Awards 2011, one of 15 global innovators recognized each year for applying technology to benefit humanity and spark global change.
Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens will present the inaugural Stevens Lecture, a new series of talks named for him, at the University of Colorado Law School at 5 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 22.
The blanket of sea ice that floats on the Arctic Ocean appears to have reached its lowest extent for 2011, the second lowest recorded since satellites began measuring it in 1979, according to the Â鶹¹ÙÍø's National Snow and Ice Data Center.
Colorado Shakespeare Festival actors will perform a 17th century play in more than 25 schools from Fort Collins to Trinidad this fall to set the stage for modern-day discussions about school bullying as part of a collaboration between the festival and the Â鶹¹ÙÍø's Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence.
The Â鶹¹ÙÍø will celebrate Constitution Day with campus events including a student journalism panel and the launch of a new program at the University of Colorado Law School that will send CU law students to high school classrooms throughout the state to discuss the First Amendment.
The University of Colorado Board of Regents today unanimously approved creation of the systemwide CU Biofrontiers Institute, building on the success of what began in 2003 as a grassroots "experiment" in the organization of multidisciplinary sciences.
Arts and Culture Week, the annual celebration of Â鶹¹ÙÍø artistic and cultural resources, begins Sept. 12 with a variety of free and low-cost events for campus and community audiences.
DENVER—University of Colorado faculty researchers secured more than $790 million in sponsored research funding in fiscal year 2010-11 to advance scientific work in laboratories and in the field.
During the past 10 years two Colorado professors have collected the widest available base of knowledge about people who practice self-injury and now are offering new insights into people who deliberately injure themselves by cutting, burning, branding and bone-breaking.
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which is carrying a suite of instruments including a $32 million Â鶹¹ÙÍø package, has provided scientists with new information that energy from some solar flares is stronger and lasts longer than previously thought.