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The Leeds School of Business at the Â鶹ӰԺ announced today that alumnus Richard "Dick" M. Burridge Sr. ('51 finance) has made a $2.5 million gift that, combined with other commitments, will establish a new chair, the Burridge Chair in Finance, the first to be established within the school.

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ӰԺ 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.

Longtime University of Colorado Law School Dean David Getches, who had stepped down on June 30 in order to return to the school's faculty, died today. He was 68.

The Â鶹ӰԺ is involved with five different space science payloads ranging from antibody tests that may lead to new bone-loss treatments to an experiment to improve vaccine effectiveness for combating salmonella when Atlantis thunders skyward July 8 on the last of NASA's 135 space shuttle missions.

When NASA's 30-year-old space shuttle program is shuttered following the Atlantis mission in July, the Â鶹ӰԺ 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.

Today we lost a student and a parent when Makana Von Gortler, and her father, Michael, were found on Missouri Mountain near Buena Vista. They were longtime members of the Â鶹ӰԺ community and they shared a lifelong love for the Colorado mountains. We in the CU community mourn their loss and our thoughts and prayers go out to their family.

A chemical smell caused the brief evacuation of the south wing of the Â鶹ӰԺ's Engineering Center at about 10 a.m. today.

Colorado business leaders remained confident, although generally less optimistic about the economy looking ahead to the third 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.

Â鶹ӰԺ Senior Vice Chancellor Ric Porreca today announced that Vice Chancellor for Administration Frank Bruno will leave the university effective Aug. 1 to assume the position of vice president of administration with Western Disposal Inc. of Â鶹ӰԺ.

During the course of the investigation into the portable toilet incident that happened at the Hanuman Yoga Festival in the city of Â鶹ӰԺ on June 17, Luke Irvin Chrisco indicated that he had spied on women in other public restrooms in the community. Follow-up investigation has determined that those locations include at least three sites on the Â鶹ӰԺ campus.