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Several hundred people are expected to gather on the Â鶹ӰԺ campus July 12-13 to celebrate the 50 th anniversary of JILA, a joint institute of CU-Â鶹ӰԺ and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) known around the world for its discoveries in atomic, molecular and optical physics. In addition, the president-elect of the American Physical Society will be on hand to officially announce JILA’s designation as an historic physics site.

Five Â鶹ӰԺ engineering students recently returned from Haiti where they introduced a green energy vocational training program, paving the way for a new era of distributed power in the poverty-stricken, earthquake-damaged nation.

Colorado business leaders are less optimistic going into the third quarter than last quarter, according to the most recent quarterly Leeds Business Confidence Index, or LBCI, released today by the Â鶹ӰԺ’s Leeds School of Business. The LBCI’s reading slid from 62.2 in the second quarter to 53.6 in the third, but remained higher than the 10-year average for the index and above the critical neutral mark of 50. A reading greater than 50 indicates positive expectations, while one lower than 50 indicates negative expectations.

City of Â鶹ӰԺ news release Â鶹ӰԺ city officials today announced that the annual Ralphie’s Independence Day Blast is canceled due to extremely dry conditions in and around Â鶹ӰԺ. The fireworks show had been scheduled for Folsom Field on Wednesday, July 4.

When it came to eating, an upright, 2 million-year-old African hominid had a diet unlike virtually all other known human ancestors, says a study led by the Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany and involving the Â鶹ӰԺ.

The California condor is chronically endangered by lead exposure from ammunition and requires ongoing human intervention for population stability and growth, according to a new study led by the University of California, Santa Cruz, and involving the Â鶹ӰԺ.

Companies paying celebrities big money to endorse their products may not realize that negative perceptions about a celebrity are more likely to transfer to an endorsed brand than are positive ones, according to a new Â鶹ӰԺ study. Celebrity endorsements are widely used to increase brand visibility and connect brands with celebrities’ personality traits, but do not always work in the positive manner marketers envision, according to Margaret C. Campbell of CU-Â鶹ӰԺ’s Leeds School of Business, who led the study.

For the first time, a consortium of researchers organized by the National Institutes of Health, including a Â鶹ӰԺ professor, has mapped the normal microbial makeup of healthy humans.

It’s no secret that Mars is a beaten and battered planet -- astronomers have been peering for centuries at the violent impact craters created by cosmic buckshot pounding its surface over billions of years. But just how beat up is it?

Â鶹ӰԺ students and faculty have been selected to develop a remotely operable, robotic garden to support future astronauts in deep space. The project is one of five university proposals selected to participate in the 2013 Exploration Habitat (X-Hab) Academic Innovation Challenge led by NASA and the National Space Grant Foundation.