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The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ is participating in a weeklong national event starting Feb. 23 designed to bring attention to the epidemic of eating disorders and body dissatisfaction issues that plague huge numbers of college-aged women and men.

University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ students will be at the controls of one of NASA's most intriguing missions in recent years following the scheduled March 6 launch of the Kepler spacecraft to hunt down Earth-like planets in other solar systems.

Substituting inhalable, powder vaccines for shots may sound like an ideal alternative for those with phobias of needles, but for millions of children in developing countries, it could be the difference between life and death.

A new study involving iPods and teenagers by the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ and Children's Hospital Boston indicates teenagers who receive pressure from their peers or others to turn down the volume of their iPods instead turn them up higher.

More than 30 of the nation's leading thinkers and practitioners in real estate, law, business and public policy will gather in Denver and Â鶹ӰԺ Feb. 26-27 for a new University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ symposium about sustainable land use and real estate development.

The Center of the American West at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ announced today it will present its 2009 Wallace Stegner Award to author Tom McGuane, best known for his novels "The Sporting Club," "The Bushwhacked Piano" and "Ninety-Two in the Shade."

A failure to grasp the fundamentals of biological systems may be leaving K-12 teachers and students vulnerable to claims by intelligent design creationists, new-age homeopaths and other "hucksters," according to a University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ biology professor.

Four workshop performances of "Trojan Women," Jean-Paul Sartre's adaptation of Euripides' classic story of war and its aftermath, will be presented Friday, Feb. 20, through Sunday, Feb. 22, in the ATLAS Black Box Studio on the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ campus.

Dazzling new scientific techniques are allowing anthropologists to track the movements and menus of extinct hominids through the seasons and years as they ate their way across the African landscape, helping to illuminate the evolution of human diets.

A filmmaker who challenges the U.S. government's conclusion that breast implants are safe will screen her film and lead a panel discussion in a free event at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ on Feb. 26.