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When the New Horizons spacecraft encountered Pluto early this morning, several CU-Â鶹ӰԺ alumni realized a decade full of dreams and no one more so than Beth Cervelli.

Thirty-two Latino and Chicano Colorado high school students are immersing themselves in college life and learning July 12-18 at the Â鶹ӰԺ as part of the third annual Aquetza: Youth Leadership, Education and Community Empowerment summer program.

Children consume more low-nutrition, high-calorie food such as cookies and candy after observing seemingly overweight cartoon characters, according to a first-of-its-kind study led by the Â鶹ӰԺ.

After a nine-year journey of 3 billion miles, a piano-sized, power-packed NASA spacecraft has an upcoming date with history that some Â鶹ӰԺ students, faculty and alumni wouldn’t miss for the world.

Southern Californians and writers love to blame the hot, dry Santa Ana winds for tense, ugly moods, and the winds have long been associated with destructive wildfires. Now, NOAA researchers have fo und that on occasion, the winds have an accomplice with respect to fires, at least: Natural atmospheric events known as stratospheric intrusions, which bring extremely dry air from the upper atmosphere down to the surface, adding to the fire danger effects of the Santa Anas, and exacerbating some air pollution episodes.

This summer, middle and high school students are helping build and test 3-D structures that complement and mimic the cutting-edge ‘photo origami’ research conducted at the Â鶹ӰԺ.

Two of the five recipients of the 2015 Fulbright-National Geographic Digital Storytelling Fellowship are CU-Â鶹ӰԺ alumni. Ari Beser (PolSci’11) and Ryan T. Bell (Hist’01) will study and document international stories over the next year.

The confidence of Colorado business leaders dipped slightly though remained optimistic going into the third quarter of 2015, according to the Leeds Business Confidence Index released by CU-Â鶹ӰԺ’s Leeds School of Business.

A new Â鶹ӰԺ framework used to screen hundreds of organic chemical compounds used in hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, shows that 15 may be of concern as groundwater contaminants based on their toxicity, mobility, persistence and frequency of use.

It’s been difficult to explain patterns of toxic mercury in some parts of the world, such as why there’s so much of the toxin deposited into ecosystems from the air in the southeastern United States, even upwind of usual sources. A new analysis led by researchers at the Â鶹ӰԺ shows that one key to understanding mercury’s strange behavior may be the unexpected reactivity of naturally occurring halogen compounds from the ocean.