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<p>A NASA-funded miniature satellite built by �Ͼ�Ʒ�� students to scrutinize solar flares erupting from the sun surface is the latest example of the university commitment to advancing aerospace technology and space science through strong partnerships with industry and government.</p>

<p>“Goodnight room, goodnight moon. Goodnight cow jumping over the moon...”</p>
<p>A children classic that already is a candidate for the all-time best feel-good book, “Goodnight Moon,” has gotten a boost: A �Ͼ�Ʒ�� team printed the first 3D version of it, allowing visually impaired children and their families to touch objects in the story -- like the cow jumping over the moon -- as it is read aloud.</p>

<p>Children who spend more time in less structured activities—from playing outside to reading books to visiting the zoo—are better able to set their own goals and take actions to meet those goals without prodding from adults, according to a new study by the �Ͼ�Ʒ��.</p>

<p>Children who spend more time in less structured activities—from playing outside to reading books to visiting the zoo—are better able to set their own goals and take actions to meet those goals without prodding from adults, according to a new study by the �Ͼ�Ʒ��.</p>

<p>A new educational partnership at the �Ͼ�Ʒ�� will provide expanded degree options for working professionals interested in specialized graduate education focused on energy and water.</p>
<p>Beginning this fall, qualified students can earn both a Master of Engineering (ME) degree and a Professional Certificate in Renewable and Sustainable Energy or a Professional Certificate in Water Engineering and Management. The degree and certificates can be earned either via distance education or in campus classes and may be pursued either part- or full-time.</p>

<p>A new study on obesity and people happiness by CU-Boulder sociology researchers suggests that it not obesity by itself that determines whether a person is happy with their body image but where you live.</p>
<p>According to study co-author Philip Pendergast, a doctoral student in sociology at CU-Boulder, if a person who is obese lives in a community where people share the same body type they are more likely to be happier.</p>

<p>In a discovery decades in the making, scientists have detected the first of a “theoretical” class of stars first proposed in 1975 by physicist Kip Thorne and astronomer Anna Żytkow.</p>

<p>A �Ͼ�Ʒ�� payload carrying a novel device designed to reduce the weight and cost of spacecraft fuel pumping systems has been manifested for launch on a suborbital space plane called SpaceShipTwo developed by the aerospace company Virgin Galactic.</p>

<p>Friday, June 6, marks the 25th anniversary of the FBI and EPA raid on Rocky Flats, the former U.S. nuclear weapons facility in Arvada. In an effort to recognize a significant part of Colorado history, the Arvada Center of the Arts, in partnership with CU-Boulder's <a href="http://centerwest.org/">Center of the American West</a>, will host a weekend-long event, "<a href="http://arvadacenter.org/on-stage/rocky-flats-then-and-now-2014">Rocky Flats Then and Now: 25 Years After the Raid</a>," June 6 - 8.</p>
<p><span>CU-Boulder Professor Emeritus Len Ackland will give the event introduction talk, “Rocky Flats Then and Now” on Friday, June 6, at 7 p.m.</span></p>

<p>Bradley J. Birzer has been appointed the second Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and Policy, the �Ͼ�Ʒ�� announced today.</p>
<p>Birzer, a professor of history and the Russell Amos Kirk Chair in American Studies at Hillsdale College in Michigan, will begin his one-year appointment beginning in fall 2014.</p>
<p>“Dr. Birzer brings impressive breadth to CU, primarily in the discipline of history as well as areas of literary significance,” said Steven R. Leigh, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at CU-Boulder.  </p>