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The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ is moving more than 40,000 e-mail accounts of faculty, staff, students and affiliates to a new e-mail system that integrates calendar functions with e-mail and gives student accounts five times more capacity.

The notion that more information about the science of human-caused climate change will spur effective problem solving by American society is just flat wrong, according to a University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ climate policy analyst.

A leading expert on machine learning and its applications to speech recognition, text processing and analysis of genomic sequences will present the 2007 Mervyn Young Memorial Lecture Feb. 22 at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ.

Members of a research team led by the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ have used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to peer at the embryo of an infant star in the nearby Eagle Nebula, which they believe may someday develop into a virtual twin of Earth's sun.

The growth of Colorado's mountain communities and "green" development are among the topics to be discussed at the University of Colorado Real Estate Council's 2007 conference on Wednesday, Feb. 28, from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Held annually, the conference will feature outlooks from national and local experts on real estate and capital markets. Co-sponsored by the CU-Â鶹ӰԺ Leeds School of Business and the Urban Land Institute, it will be held at Denver's Westin Tabor Center at 1672 Lawrence St.

NASA astronaut Charles Camarda, who flew on the space shuttle Discovery in July 2005 and was involved in investigating the 2003 Columbia space shuttle accident, will speak at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ Feb. 21.

A more efficient steam-powered electricity generator, a hybrid plastic developed in part from discarded tires and a system to convert waste into renewable energy and organic fertilizer will be among the business plans presented at the second annual Cleantech Challenge March 1-2 at the Sheraton Four Points Hotel in Denver.

While snow and its effects on highways and city streets has been foremost on the minds of residents up and down Colorado's urban Front Range corridor since December, experts say snowpack levels in some mountain regions are below average and avalanche danger generally is no higher than it has been in previous years. "People have snow on their minds because it's clogged up their driveways for two months," said University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ glaciologist and avalanche expert Richard Armstrong of the National Snow and Ice Data Center. "So I understand the trigger."

A classroom exercise that addressed minority students' social concerns about "belonging" in college dramatically improved their academic performance, according to a University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ professor. The written exercise, or intervention, that expressed to minority students the notion that most college freshmen wonder about their social relationships in school, and that such concerns subside with time, was found to have a significant impact in improving their grades, according to Associate Professor Geoffrey Cohen of CU-Â鶹ӰԺ's psychology department.

Two University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ graduate students are among a handful of young American music scholars selected to participate in separate, prestigious jazz studies programs in New York City and Washington, D.C. Kurtis Adams and Kevin Woods, who study in the CU-Â鶹ӰԺ College of Music's jazz studies program, also are good friends who have collaborated on their first professional recording, "Ballad of the West." The jazz CD, which features performances by CU-Â鶹ӰԺ professors Pat Bianchi on organ and Paul Romaine on drums, will be released on April 1.