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A first-of-its-kind, nationally representative study of siblings supports previously published research on unrelated individuals that links specific genotypes to educational attainment among adults in their mid-20s to early 30s.

The University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder has received a $3 million federal grant to develop cooling technology that will enable efficient, low-cost supplementary cooling for thermoelectric power plants.

The University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder today made the Top 25 LGBTQ-Friendly Colleges and Universities list issued by Campus Pride , a leading nonprofit national educational organization for LGBTQ and ally students and campus groups.

University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ faculty research merited $878.3 million in research awards during the 2014-15 fiscal year, based on preliminary figures, representing a near-record year for the four-campus system.

The University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ and Boulder Community Health announce today’s opening of the ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Sports Medicine and Performance Center on the Boulder campus.

Stuck oil rigs, grizzly bears and changing weather patterns are just a few of the obstacles Gijs de Boer and his team of researchers encountered on the ground in Oliktok Point, Alaska. De Boer, a scientist with the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥), who works in NOAA’s Earth System Research Laboratory, spent the last two weeks deploying the DataHawk 2, a small, lightweight, unmanned aircraft, designed by ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder’s Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences.

It’s August and that means the hottest show in the night sky -- the Perseid meteor shower -- will make its annual appearance, peaking in the pre-dawn hours of Aug. 11 to 14.

For the fourth year, the ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder's Mini Law School, which is open to the campus community and the public, will be offered from 6 to 7:30 p.m. over eight Tuesdays Sept. 8 to Nov. 3. Designed for non-lawyers wanting to grasp and navigate the basics of the legal system, the course will cover everything from constitutional law to intellectual property, environmental, estate planning, family, criminal and business law, as well as litigation.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder $1 million to evaluate the impacts of climate change, including increased wildfires, on indoor air quality and health in low-income Denver area neighborhoods.

Steven Leigh, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, today announced that David Boonin will serve as the new chair of the Philosophy Department. Boonin, a philosophy professor and former associate dean for arts and humanities, will assume the new role prior to the start of the fall semester. Andrew Cowell, who served as interim department chair since February 2014, will return to his home department and become the chair of Linguistics.