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Looking ahead to his senior year, University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ computer science major Rob Mickle had planned on completing an internship over the summer -- that is, until he won $25,000 in the first round of Google's Android Developer Challenge, launching his own real-world experience.

While it may seem that some people just "have it" when it comes to sex appeal, according to a University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ communication and body language expert, sex appeal is not an inherent trait but something anyone can learn.

Paid enrollment deposits for fall 2008 new freshmen at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ indicate that the campus can expect another exceptional freshman class in the fall. Preliminary numbers point to the class being in excess of 5,700 students, most likely around 5,750.

A new study led by the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ has shown the testosterone of male North American barn swallows skyrocketed early in the breeding season when their breast colors were artificially enhanced by researchers, indicating the clothes -- or in this case, the feathers -- make the man.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ has been awarded a five-year, $32 million contract from NASA to manage and operate a sophisticated data system charting global phenomena like sea ice, ice shelves, ice sheets, glaciers and snow cover.

Two undergraduate advertising students at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ's School of Journalism and Mass Communication won the top prize this month at The One Club's annual One Show College Competition, often considered the premier student advertising competition.

The launch of a University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ-built biomedical experiment aboard the space shuttle Discovery May 31 follows on the heels of an agreement between NASA and CU-Â鶹ӰԺ to fly university payloads on every shuttle mission to the International Space Station until the shuttle program is retired in 2010.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ today named Julie Wong vice chancellor for student affairs, effective July 22. Wong currently serves as associate vice president and dean of students at the University of Texas at El Paso, a post she has held since 2004.

Starting this fall, University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ engineering students will be able to earn an entrepreneurship certificate that will complement their engineering and technology education and prepare them to start their own businesses.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ will host an international conference on "Media, Spiritualities and Social Change" June 4-7 that will feature several free public talks, including one by Nina Rothschild Utne, editor-at-large of Utne Reader magazine.