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A University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ team has developed a new method of shrinking the size of circuitry used in nanotechnology devices like computer chips and solar cells by using two separate colors of light.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ will hold lectures, museum exhibits and community outreach events in April promoting the awareness and conservation crisis confronting amphibians as part of the international "Save The Frogs!" day April 28.

Sally A. Winn, senior communications specialist with the Feminists for Life of America organization, will give the talk "Refuse to Choose: Reclaiming Feminism" at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ on Thursday, April 16, at 7 p.m. in the University Memorial Center, room 235.

In the immediate aftermath of the 2007 Virginia Tech shootings, students at the university were shocked, confused and wanted answers to simple questions: who was responsible and who were the victims?

It's easy enough for researchers in a laboratory to grow the cells they rely on for their work. Put them in a petri dish with a hospitable fluid, keep them at the right temperature and take care not to expose them to anything that might stunt their growth and soon the tiny specs will be bouncing baby cells, ready for whatever experiments scientist choose to use them for.

Ever wondered how ancient people made their tools and clothing, or how archaeologists go about finding, collecting and analyzing those artifacts?

The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ will host the second annual Buffalo Can Challenge event on April 24 to encourage groups of students and faculty from the CU community to use their creativity and benefit the surrounding Â鶹ӰԺ community.

University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ emergency and communications personnel will join their counterparts from the city of Â鶹ӰԺ, Â鶹ӰԺ County, the American Red Cross Mile High Chapter, and more than a dozen agencies in a flash flood exercise involving Â鶹ӰԺ Creek and South Â鶹ӰԺ Creek on Thursday, April 16.

University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ faculty and students will participate in a nationwide project exploring the origins, structure and evolution of tornadoes by probing both the early and late stages of severe storms over the central Great Plains this spring.

Nobel laureate Tom Cech is returning to the University of Colorado full time this month after a 10-year stint as president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a nonprofit medical research organization headquartered in Chevy Chase, Md., and one of the nation's largest philanthropies.