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DENVER—University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ faculty researchers secured more than $790 million in sponsored research funding in fiscal year 2010-11 to advance scientific work in laboratories and in the field.

During the past 10 years two ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ professors have collected the widest available base of knowledge about people who practice self-injury and now are offering new insights into people who deliberately injure themselves by cutting, burning, branding and bone-breaking.

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which is carrying a suite of instruments including a $32 million University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder package, has provided scientists with new information that energy from some solar flares is stronger and lasts longer than previously thought.

The Tempest unmanned aircraft -- a University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder-developed system that was the first to intercept a "supercell" thunderstorm -- will be exhibited at a Capitol Hill event on Wednesday, Sept. 7, from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. in room 902 of the Hart Senate Office Building, located on Constitution Avenue between 1st and 2nd Streets NE in Washington, D.C.

A surprising new discovery by the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder and the University of California, Davis regarding the division of tiny "power plants" within cells known as mitochondria has implications for better understanding a wide variety of human diseases and conditions due to mitochondrial defects.

American pikas, the chirpy, potato-sized denizens of rocky debris in mountain ranges and high plateaus in western North America, are holding their own in the Southern Rocky Mountains, says a new University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder study.

The University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder has partnered with the Mind Research Network in Albuquerque, N.M., to bring to campus a state-of-the-art magnetic resonance scanner that will significantly enhance the neuroimaging capabilities on campus.

Graphene, considered the most exciting new material under study in the world of nanotechnology, just got even more interesting, according to a new study by a group of researchers at the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder.

Fourteen graduate students from the Engineering for Developing Communities program at the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder traveled abroad this summer to gain field experience in community development.

A new University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder study indicates a major climate oscillation in the Southern Hemisphere that is expected to intensify in the coming decades will likely cause increased wildfire activity in the southern half of South America.