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Five University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ graduate specialty programs were ranked in the top 10 nationally in the new but limited U.S. News & World Report 2010 Best Graduate Schools issue scheduled for release April 23.

As music educators, Assistant Professor Peter Miksza and Associate Dean James Austin of the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ know how hard it can be to attract young musicians to the field. Both have been researching how to recruit and retain music teachers.

University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ engineering student Eric Eason is looking forward to his May graduation because of the freedom it will bring -- freedom to pursue his own educational interests with support from one of the most prestigious fellowship programs in the country.

University of Colorado President Bruce D. Benson today named Interim Chancellor Phil DiStefano the sole finalist for the chancellor position at CU-Â鶹ӰԺ.

The Engineering Center at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ will hum with activity this week as engineering students celebrate Engineering Days on Wednesday through Friday and complete semester-long design projects for demonstration to the community at the Engineering Design Expo on Saturday.

Jeffrey Perry, a social justice activist and author of "Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism 1883-1918," will speak at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ on Wednesday, April 22.

David Treuer, an Ojibwe Indian and prize-winning author, will speak at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ on April 23 as part of the Center of the American West's Modern Indian Identity Series.

For the last six years, University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ graduate students Evan Thomas and Max Gold have volunteered their time to help bring water purification systems, biogas generators and high-efficiency cooking stoves to remote villages in Rwanda with the nonprofit Engineers Without Borders-USA.

BOULDER, Colo.-Physicists have measured and controlled seemingly forbidden collisions between neutral strontium atoms -- a class of antisocial atoms known as fermions that are not supposed to collide when in identical energy states. The advance makes possible a significant boost in the accuracy of atomic clocks based on hundreds or thousands of neutral atoms.

In a follow-up to a 2006 study, a University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ researcher and his colleagues found that an in-class writing assignment designed to reinforce students' sense of identity and personal integrity increased the grade-point averages of African-American middle school students over a two-year period, and reduced the rate at which these students were held back or placed in remediation.