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MEDIA ADVISORY The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ Leeds School of Business will open its newly expanded and renovated home, the Koelbel Building, to media on Monday, Aug. 6. Reporters and photographers are invited to tour the building with Leeds School Dean Dennis A. Ahlburg at 10:30 a.m. The tour will start in the building's Centers Board Room, located on the first floor off the main entrance on the south side of Koebel Building facing Regent Drive.

Roof-integrated photovoltaic panels will be installed today by University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ students on the school's latest Solar Decathlon entry as part of a project update for the fall competition, the third of three competitions to date that CU-Â鶹ӰԺ won previously in 2002 and 2005. The defending champions - with new student engineers at the helm - will describe what promises to be the team's most innovative Solar Decathlon entry. The sponsors and student participants will give a brief project update at 10 a.m. today while installation of the solar system gets underway.

Chickadees, nuthatches and warblers foraging their way through forests have been shown to spur the growth of pine trees in the West by as much as one-third, according to a new University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ study.

For the second time in eight months, a NASA space shuttle will carry a suite of University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ experiments to the International Space Station in an educational effort involving thousands of K-12 students around the world.

MEDIA ADVISORY University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ students will begin to install the key element - roof-integrated photovoltaic panels - on what promises to be their most innovative Solar Decathlon entry to date this Thursday, Aug. 2. The Solar Decathlon is a competition among 20 university teams to design, build and operate the most innovative home powered completely by solar energy.

The Multicultural Engineering Program at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ will host the second of three Western summer camps aimed at expanding educational opportunities for Hispanic students interested in science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM. The camps are the first project of the Hispanic Alliance for STEM Opportunities, a partnership formed earlier this year by the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Conference and IBM.

University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ Professor Andrew Staehelin has been named the first recipient of the new Fellow of the American Society of Plant Biologists award in 2007 for his distinguished contributions to plant biology.

Next month, a University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ graduate student will complete the first leg of a wireless network that will introduce Internet communications to a remote region of PeruÂ’s Amazon rain forest.

Researcher Dave Rusch remembers sitting up all night during the Sputnik era, watching for signs of Soviet satellites orbiting the earth over his boyhood home in Iowa. The dawn of the Space Age so stirred his imagination he built his own telescope a few years later. "I remember saying to myself, 'Boy, wouldn't it be exciting to study data that came back from a satellite?' " said Rusch, a senior research associate at the Laboratory for Atmospheric Space Physics, or LASP.