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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.

The University of Colorado Buffaloes vs. Cal-Berkeley Bears football game at Folsom Field on Sept. 10 is technically a nonconference game, but most in the campus community recognize that it's the beginning of a new era.

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.

The Tempest unmanned aircraft -- a Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ-developed system that was the first to intercept a "supercell" thunderstorm -- will be exhibited at a Capitol Hill event on Wednesday, Sept. 7, from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. in room 902 of the Hart Senate Office Building, located on Constitution Avenue between 1st and 2nd Streets NE in Washington, D.C.

A surprising new discovery by the Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ and the University of California, Davis regarding the division of tiny "power plants" within cells known as mitochondria has implications for better understanding a wide variety of human diseases and conditions due to mitochondrial defects.

American pikas, the chirpy, potato-sized denizens of rocky debris in mountain ranges and high plateaus in western North America, are holding their own in the Southern Rocky Mountains, says a new Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ study.