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A University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ at Boulder space dust counter designed, tested and operated by students that is flying aboard NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto now holds the record for the most distant working dust detector ever to travel through space.

NASA announced today that the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ at Boulder-led mission to Mars to investigate how the planet lost much of its atmosphere eons ago has been approved by the space agency to move into the development stage.

One hundred years ago, ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Gov. John Shafroth, a group of University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ dignitaries and leading Boulder citizens stood on a barren hillside overlooking the town and laid the cornerstone for what would become the Boulder area's premier performing arts venue.

University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ at Boulder officials are urging ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ students and other fans to arrive early for Saturday's football game between ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ and Georgia at Folsom Field, and to be on their best behavior.

A half-billion years ago, vertebrates lacked the ability to chew their food. They did not have jaws. Instead, their heads consisted of a flexible, fused basket of cartilage.

Three University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ at Boulder programs receive special recognition in the recently released 2011 Fiske Guide to Colleges, including a Top 10 ranking as "environmental studies schools that should be on your radar."

Distinguished Professor Carl Wieman of the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ at Boulder has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate as associate director for science in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

The Big 12 announced it has reached agreement with the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ regarding its withdrawal from the Conference effective June 30, 2011, subject to final approval from the other 10 school's governing boards.

Children of all ages are invited to attend the annual ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Wizards shows at the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ at Boulder.

Dark-colored dust that settles on snow in the Upper ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ River Basin makes the snow melt early and robs the ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ River of about 5 percent of its water each year, says a new study co-authored by researchers from the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ at Boulder-based Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, or ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥.