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The Leeds School of Business at the Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ is a local and national leader in preparing MBA students for social and environmental stewardship, according to the just released ranking by Beyond Grey Pinstripes.

SuviCa Inc. of Boulder and the University of Colorado recently completed an exclusive license agreement for a Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØdrug screening technology to identify novel therapies for cancer.

The PhET Interactive Simulations project at the Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ 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Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ's National Snow and Ice Data Center.

The Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ 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 Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØlaw 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 Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBiofrontiers Institute, building on the success of what began in 2003 as a grassroots "experiment" in the organization of multidisciplinary sciences.

In 2003, shortly after arriving in Iraq, an anti-tank mine blew off Army Maj. David Rozelle's right foot and part of his leg below the knee. Today, after three combat tours in Iraq -- two of which came after his injury -- Rozelle is the new commanding officer of the Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ's Army ROTC program.

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Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ package, has provided scientists with new information that energy from some solar flares is stronger and lasts longer than previously thought.