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The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ was awarded two grants totaling $11 million today from NASA's Lunar Science Institute to probe the cosmos from observatories on the moon and to conduct science and safety investigations on the dusty lunar surface and its atmosphere.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and illustrator Art Spiegelman will give a free public lecture on the history and importance of comics on Sunday, Jan. 25, at 4:30 p.m. in Macky Auditorium highlighting a month-long exhibit titled "Graphia: Comics, Graphic Novels and the Humanities on the Front Range."

With a new president and a new Congress taking up the nation's business in less than two weeks, health care reform will loom large on the national agenda. That makes it a timely and relevant subject for University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ political science professor and CU President Emeritus Hank Brown to tackle this semester, which he and a CU-Â鶹ӰԺ undergraduate political science class will do in a special course titled "The Politics of Health Care Reform."

The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ is one of 12 colleges selected today by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to participate in the Science Education Alliance, an ambitious higher education program designed to involve freshmen in scientific discovery on a national scale.

The Â鶹ӰԺ County Sheriff's Office and local fire departments are combating a large wildfire in Â鶹ӰԺ County northwest of the City of Â鶹ӰԺ. The fire is not threatening the University of Colorado campus or the immediate campus environs or central City of Â鶹ӰԺ.

With thousands of hours logged on the project over nearly two years, University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ students are approaching the finals in what has been referred to as the national championship series for satellite design, sponsored by the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research.

A new University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ study shows the resistance of the avian flu virus to a major class of antiviral drugs is increasing through positive evolutionary selection, with researchers documenting the trend in more than 30 percent of the samples tested.

Colorado's trade with the European Union, which brings billions to the state and has been growing, is the subject of a conference in Denver this month.

Across the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ campus students are sharing answers, checking their responses to questions against those of their neighbors and making adjustments to those answers in hopes of earning a better grade.

It's not too late to get into shape for your favorite winter sports activity with the snow piling up in the Colorado high country.