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Student leaders will join City of Â鶹ӰԺ and University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ officials next week to welcome students to the community and provide information on being good neighbors. "Walkabout" teams will walk the streets of neighborhoods, including University Hill, Goss Grove and portions of Martin Acres and East Aurora.

Environmental engineering faculty and students at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ are launching a study this month to determine the environmental fate of chemical dispersants being used in the Gulf oil spill cleanup.

Forest fires that have burned thousands of acres near Durango over the last several years may be responsible for unlocking the mercury trapped beneath the soil in the San Juan National Forest and allowing it to wash into Vallecito Reservoir northeast of Durango, according to preliminary findings by a University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ engineering professor.

More than 50 K-12 educators and 15 community college students from Colorado and two other states are participating in teaching programs at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ this summer in order to take video game programming back to the classroom.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ is working with Denver Public School science teachers to help customize classroom science instruction using a specially designed digital library tool that will be increasingly valuable to teachers as their classrooms continue to diversify.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ Environmental Center, with support from a number of campus departments and private sources, is expanding "Computers To Youth," its innovative approach to both protect the environment and benefit disadvantaged communities in Colorado. It is now an ongoing, year-round program with its formal launch set for Saturday, May 15, on the CU-Â鶹ӰԺ campus.

Mark Arnoldy, a University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ senior set to graduate on Friday, doesn't like peanuts. As a matter of fact he avoids them like the plague because he is highly allergic to them.

More than 40 11th-graders from the Denver School of Science and Technology will get a close-up look at college-level engineering design at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ on Thursday, April 29, the last voting day of the White House Commencement Challenge.

Engineering students at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ are ramping up for a week of intense activity April 20 to 24, when they will celebrate Engineering Days and complete hands-on design projects for demonstration to the community at the Engineering Design Expo.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ's second annual Spring Fest is expected to draw thousands of students and visitors to campus April 9-11 for the Buffalo Can Challenge, Admitted Student Day, Healthy Kids Day, the spring football game, the Forever Buffs 5K run and other events.