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A cutting-edge battery technology developed at the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder that could allow tomorrow’s electric vehicles to travel twice as far on a charge is now closer to becoming a commercial reality. ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥â€™s Technology Transfer Office has completed an agreement with Solid Power LLC—a ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder spinoff company founded by Se-Hee Lee and Conrad Stoldt, both associate professors of mechanical engineering—for the development and commercialization of an innovative solid-state rechargeable battery.

Saturday’s football game between the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ and Fresno State has been postponed, university officials decided Friday morning. After careful consideration, ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder Chancellor Philip P. DiStefano has decided that the university will not hold a football game on Saturday, Sept. 14, and that school officials will discuss a possible make-up date for the game.

Saturday’s football game between the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ and Fresno State has been postponed, university officials decided Friday morning. After careful consideration, ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder Chancellor Philip P. DiStefano has decided that the university will not hold a football game tomorrow, and that school officials will discuss a possible make-up date for the game.

Nanoly Bioscience of Boulder and the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ recently entered into an option agreement that will enable the startup company to develop a technique for protecting vaccines during delivery to rural and less-developed areas of the world.

A small beach ball-sized satellite designed and built by a team of University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder students to better understand how atmospheric drag can affect satellite orbits is now slated for launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Sept. 15.

More than 50 students and dozens of alumni of the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder Law School will teach a lesson on the First Amendment in more than 50 high school classrooms throughout ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Sept. 11–20 in recognition of Constitution Day. Constitution Day is a national event that annually commemorates the Sept. 17, 1787, signing of the United States Constitution.

Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor will speak at the third annual John Paul Stevens Lecture hosted by the Byron R. White Center at the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder Law School on Tuesday, Sept. 17. The event will be held from 5 to 6:30 p.m. in the University Memorial Center’s Glenn Miller Ballroom on the ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder campus. A limited number of tickets to the lecture are available to the general public at no cost. To register for tickets visit the center’s website at http://www.byronwhitecenter.org .

Albert Allen Bartlett, professor emeritus of physics at ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder, was remembered today as a revered teacher who had a major impact on his students, the university, Boulder and far beyond. Bartlett died at the age of 90.

A person’s ability to delay gratification—forgoing a smaller reward now for a larger reward in the future—may depend on how trustworthy the person perceives the reward-giver to be, according to a new study by researchers at the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder.

A white-rumped bumblebee that has been in steep decline across its native range in the western United States and Canada appears to be making a comeback on the ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Front Range. A survey of bumblebee populations carried out largely by University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder undergraduates in undisturbed patches of prairieland and in mountain meadows above campus has turned up more than 20 rare western bumblebees, known scientifically as Bombus occidentalis.