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Student leaders will join the city of Boulder and Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ officials next week to welcome students to the community and provide information on being good neighbors. "Walkabout" teams will be in the University Hill, Goss Grove and portions of Martin Acres neighborhoods.

Volunteers from a variety of campus groups will be available to help new students move their belongings into Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ residence halls Aug. 16 and Aug. 18 as New Student Move-In begins next week.

A new Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ study shows that a small amount of physical exercise could profoundly protect the elderly from long-term memory loss that can happen suddenly following infection, illnesses or injury in old age.

The U.S. Senate has voted to confirm Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ Distinguished Professor Carl Lineberger as a member of the National Science Board. He was nominated for the position by President Barack Obama in April.

Several Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ faculty and students are participating in NASA's Juno Mission to Jupiter, now slated for launch Aug. 5 from Florida's Kennedy Space Center and which is expected to help steer scientists toward the right recipe for planet-making.

An international team of astronomers led by the California Institute of Technology and involving the Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ has discovered the largest and farthest reservoir of water ever detected in the universe.

A $670 million NASA orbiting mission to probe the past climate of Mars led by the Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ reached a major milestone last week when it successfully completed its Mission Critical Design Review by the space agency.

Latino adolescents who share knowledge from the classroom, new media and information technology among immigrant families function as "civic information leaders," a new study by the Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ shows.

NIST news release Showcasing new tools for widespread development of quantum circuits made of mechanical parts, scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ have demonstrated a flexible, broadly usable technique for steadily calming the vibrations of an engineered mechanical object down to the quantum "ground state," the lowest possible energy level.

When NASA's 30-year-old space shuttle program is shuttered following the Atlantis mission in July, the Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ will look back at a rich relationship filled with triumph and tragedy and look ahead to an evolving international program of government and private efforts that will send humans and cargo into orbit.