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Ronggui Yang, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ, has been named one of the world's top 35 young innovators in the September/October issue of Technology Review, a magazine published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Volunteers from a variety of campus groups will be available to help new students move their belongings into residence halls at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ Aug. 19 and Aug. 21 as New Student Move-In begins this week.

Dozens of activities await new students at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ starting Aug. 21 including a welcome convocation hosted by Chancellor G.P. "Bud" Peterson and a "Global Jam" featuring international food and music.

NEWS TIP SHEET University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ Sources on 2008 Election Presidential Election and Congressional Races. Kenneth Bickers, professor and chair of the political science department, can comment on this year's presidential election and congressional races in Colorado and the nation. He also can address the youth vote, campaign issues and tactics, and what polling can tell us. Bickers can be reached at (303) 492-2363 or bickers@colorado.edu .

Interim City Manager Stephanie Grainger, CU-Â鶹ӰԺ Chancellor G.P. "Bud" Peterson, Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Julie Wong and Athletic Director Mike Bohn will join other city and university officials and CU students on "walkabouts" in off-campus neighborhoods from 6 to 8 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 15, and Monday, Aug. 18.

Researchers will capture a snapshot in time of water quality from 250 locations within and around Rocky Mountain National Park in order to glimpse how differences in climate, pollution and disturbances like mountain pine beetle are affecting Colorado's watersheds.

University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ graduate student Jonathan O'Brien will spend the next nine months in the forests of Vietnam carefully observing endangered primates called black-shanked doucs in their wild habitat.

The annual Perseid meteor shower will be visible in the night sky throughout Colorado and will peak during the early morning hours of Aug. 12, according to an astronomy expert at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ received about $280 million in sponsored research awards in fiscal year 2008, surpassing last year's record-breaking total by roughly $14 million.

NIST news release BOULDER, Colo. -- Physicists at JILA, a joint institute of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ, have demonstrated a powerful new technique that reveals hidden properties of ultracold atomic gases.