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The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ and the National Institute of Standards and Technology have been awarded a $495,000 grant to look for Earth-like planets around other stars using technology based on 2005 Nobel Prize-winning research conducted at JILA, a joint institute of the two Â鶹ӰԺ institutions.

The Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute today announced its inaugural group of RASEI Fellow appointments and plans for future faculty hires to form one of the world's leading university and federal laboratory partnerships in the development and commercialization of renewable energy technologies.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ's annual campus diversity summit, "Expanding Our Minds: Encompassing Diversity and Practicing Inclusion," will feature a variety of sessions for students, faculty, staff and community members Nov. 2-3.

Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A. Inc. announced today that it will place 10 Prius plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, or PHVs, with Xcel Energy's SmartGridCity project in Â鶹ӰԺ. The vehicles will be the focus of an interdisciplinary research project coordinated by the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ's Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute, or RASEI, a new joint venture between the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory and CU-Â鶹ӰԺ.

An analysis of sediment cores indicates that biological and chemical changes occurring at a remote Arctic lake are unprecedented over the past 200,000 years and likely are the result of human-caused climate change, according to a new study led by the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ.

Senior Associate Dean Manuel Laguna of the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ has been appointed interim dean effective Nov. 1.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ today filed its Conceptual Plan for Carbon Neutrality with the American College and University Presidents' Climate Commitment, making public how the campus plans to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions.

NASA has awarded the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ $2.4 million to design, build and fly four rocket payloads to probe nearby "interstellar weather" using new technologies being developed for use on future orbiting observatories.

Hooman Majd, an Iranian-American writer and the author of the best-selling book "The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran," will speak at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ on Thursday, Oct. 22, about the people, culture and paradoxes of Iran.

Environmental design students at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ have built a prototype backyard chicken coop kit, slated for manufacturing and sales, as part of the Urban Hens project.