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For the first time in three years, ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ business leaders are predicting solid growth in the state economy, according to the most recent quarterly Leeds Business Confidence Index, or LBCI, released today by the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ at Boulder Leeds School of Business.

Forest fires that have burned thousands of acres near Durango over the last several years may be responsible for unlocking the mercury trapped beneath the soil in the San Juan National Forest and allowing it to wash into Vallecito Reservoir northeast of Durango, according to preliminary findings by a University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ at Boulder engineering professor.

Zonta International, through its foundation, has awarded Amelia Earhart Fellowships to 35 outstanding women pursuing doctoral degrees in aerospace-related sciences and engineering this year -- including six who are studying at the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ at Boulder.

Professor Robert Boswell of the molecular, cellular and developmental biology department at the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ at Boulder today was named interim vice chancellor for diversity, equity and community engagement effective July 15.

Soviet photojournalists working for the country's most important newspapers were among the first to document the unfolding Holocaust in their homeland, and they were also witnessing and recording the slaughter of Soviet citizens who, like the photographers themselves, were Jewish.

The social impacts of the Gulf oil spill and the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake are among the topics to be addressed at the annual workshop of the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ at Boulder's Natural Hazards Center July 10-13.

University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ at Boulder faculty member Douglas Sicker has been appointed chief technologist of the Federal Communications Commission, the federal agency announced today. He will work in the FCC's Office of Strategic Planning and Policy Analysis and will advise the agency on technological issues.

More than 50 K-12 educators and 15 community college students from ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ and two other states are participating in teaching programs at the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ at Boulder this summer in order to take video game programming back to the classroom.

The University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ at Boulder is working with Denver Public School science teachers to help customize classroom science instruction using a specially designed digital library tool that will be increasingly valuable to teachers as their classrooms continue to diversify.

BOULDER, Colo. -- The Pacific-10 Conference announced today that the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ at Boulder has accepted an invitation to join the Conference as its 11th member, the first new member since the University of Arizona and Arizona State University were admitted on July 1, 1978.