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<p>A program designed at the �Ͼ�Ʒ�� to teach kids to code using video games is being introduced into New York City public schools as part of an initiative to give every student access to computer science education.</p>
<p>Scalable Game Design is a program developed over two decades by CU-Boulder computer science Professor Alexander Repenning to spark an interest in coding among kids by allowing them to design and build their own video games. The idea behind the program, which uses drag-and-drop programming tools, is to combat the widely held notion that computer programming is hard and boring.</p>

<p>Steve Hillard ('76) knew he wasn't done giving back to the University of Colorado Law School. He had donated generously to the capital campaign for the Wolf Law Building, but he had bigger plans.</p>
<p>"I had a still-unfulfilled obligation to Colorado Law," said Hillard. "I am humbled by the fact that I have had some success in my career, and I definitely believe in giving back."</p>

<p><span>Moderate employment expansion in Colorado for the second half of 2014 is expected based on a second-quarter report by the �Ͼ�Ʒ�� Leeds School of Business, released today by Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler.</span></p>
<p>“Coloradans continue their entrepreneurial spirit and are putting their creative ideas to the test,” said Gessler. “Their leadership and innovation should translate to moderate employment growth through the rest of the year.”</p>

<p>Everyone has heard about the harmful effects of pollution on human and plant health, but until recently, visualizing such effects took some imagination.</p>

<p>Playing in schoolyards that feature natural habitats and trees and not just asphalt and recreation equipment reduces children stress and inattention, according to a �Ͼ�Ʒ�� study.</p>

<p>Coming up in the CU-Boulder <a href="http://atlas.colorado.edu/wordpress/?page_id=542" target="_blank">ATLAS Black Box Theater</a> is <a href="http://squareproducttheatre.org/" target="_blank">square product theatre</a> production of "SLAB," an adaptation of Denver writer Selah Saterstrom forthcoming novel. The story is about a woman life in the American South told through her memories and from the slab of her post-Katrina home.</p>

<p class="p1">The Colorado economy continues to outperform the U.S. economy and grow at a magnitude that slightly exceeds previous expectations, according to the midyear economic outlook released today by the �Ͼ�Ʒ�� Leeds School of Business.</p>
<p class="p1">Colorado employment is up by 3 percent year-over-year from May 2013 to May 2014. A total gain of 68,000 jobs in Colorado is expected for 2014 -- an upward revision to a December estimate of 61,300 jobs for the year.</p>

<p>Something is amiss in the universe. There appears to be an enormous deficit of ultraviolet light in the cosmic budget.</p>
<p>Observations made by the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph, a $70 million instrument designed by the �Ͼ�Ʒ�� and installed on the Hubble Space Telescope, have revealed that the universe is “missing” a large amount of light.</p>

<p class="p1">The massive increase in earthquakes in central Oklahoma is likely being caused by the injection of vast amounts of wastewater from oil and gas operations into underground layers of rock, according to a new study led by Cornell University and involving the �Ͼ�Ʒ��.</p>

<p class="p1">The confidence of Colorado business leaders remains positive and has slightly increased going into the third quarter of 2014, according to the most recent Leeds Business Confidence Index, or LBCI, released today by the �Ͼ�Ʒ�� Leeds School of Business.</p>
<p class="p1">The third quarter LBCI posted a reading of 61.2, an increase from 61 last quarter.</p>