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When Adelita Mendoza graduates on Friday from the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ, she will be tossing her cap for the second time.

A team of researchers led by the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ believe a dry powder, inhalable vaccine developed for measles prevention and slated for human clinical trials later this year in India will lead to other inhalable, inexpensive vaccines for illnesses ranging from tuberculosis to cervical cancer.

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.

Kevin Fiedler, a junior at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ majoring in engineering physics, has been named a 2010 Goldwater Scholar, the premier national undergraduate award recognizing outstanding students in math, science and engineering.

Jeff Mitton, professor and chair of CU-Â鶹ӰԺ's ecology and evolutionary biology department, is available to talk about the repercussions of oil spills. Mitton was on sabbatical in 1979-1980 at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., where he studied a 1969 oil spill that seeped into the Sippewissett Marsh.

Two Â鶹ӰԺ projects, including one from the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ, have been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy to receive a total of $9 million for research projects that could fundamentally change the way the country uses and produces energy.

John Wood, founder of the international nonprofit organization "Room to Read," will give the commencement address during the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ's spring graduation ceremony on Friday, May 7, beginning at 8:30 a.m. at Folsom Field.

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.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ has received a $15 million grant through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to be used toward the ongoing construction of a revolutionary biotechnology and biomedical research facility where faculty and students will tackle a variety of human health challenges.

Chayla Rowley, a junior in civil engineering at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ who plans to work with tribal nations to provide healthy water supplies, has been awarded a national Udall Scholarship.