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A public lecture exploring the potential of physics to help people understand the "magic" of the world around them will be the topic of a free public lecture to be held at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ on July 15.

A scientific instrument package developed in part by the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ for the $2.2 billion orbiting Herschel Space Observatory that was launched in May by the European Space Agency has made its first successful observations, targeting two star-forming galaxies near the Milky Way.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ has attracted 23 new graduate students who have received prestigious National Science Foundation fellowships, a record for the campus.

Colorado's economy will continue to shed jobs in the third quarter of 2009 before leveling off toward the end of the year, according to Richard Wobbekind, an economist with the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ's Leeds School of Business.

The new head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency will speak to an international gathering of about 400 people who deal with disasters at the annual workshop of the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ's Natural Hazards Center on July 16.

History Professor William Wei at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ is an expert on China and can discuss the current ethnic clashes in western China. According to Wei, the people in Urumqi have many legitimate grievances that are being ignored by the government.

Chronic seizures caused by traumatic head injuries may result from chemicals released by the brain's immune system attempting to repair the injured site, according to a study led by the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ is working with NASA to develop a new communications technology now being tested on the International Space Station, which will extend Earth's Internet into outer space and across the solar system.

U.S. Rep. John Salazar praised the efforts of federal, state and private groups, including University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ faculty and student archaeologists, who are working together to investigate and restore the Chimney Rock Archaeological Area near Pagosa Springs, Colo. The site is considered one of the most spectacular Ancestral Pueblo ruins in all of the Southwest.