ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥

A team of researchers led by the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ at Boulder believe a dry powder, inhalable vaccine developed for measles prevention and slated for human clinical trials later this year in India will lead to other inhalable, inexpensive vaccines for illnesses ranging from tuberculosis to cervical cancer.

Kevin Fiedler, a junior at the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ at Boulder majoring in engineering physics, has been named a 2010 Goldwater Scholar, the premier national undergraduate award recognizing outstanding students in math, science and engineering.

Jeff Mitton, professor and chair of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder's ecology and evolutionary biology department, is available to talk about the repercussions of oil spills. Mitton was on sabbatical in 1979-1980 at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., where he studied a 1969 oil spill that seeped into the Sippewissett Marsh.

The University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ at Boulder has received a $15 million grant through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to be used toward the ongoing construction of a revolutionary biotechnology and biomedical research facility where faculty and students will tackle a variety of human health challenges.

People who pursue happiness through material possessions are liked less by their peers than people who pursue happiness through life experiences, according to a new study led by University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ at Boulder psychology Professor Leaf Van Boven.

A group of University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ at Boulder faculty and students involved in the international Large Hadron Collider project in Europe are celebrating the most powerful smashing of subatomic particles into each other today in a quest to discover the physical conditions immediately following the Big Bang.

U.S. Supreme Court justices indicate -- or 'signal' -- their priorities and preferences to potential litigants, and about four to six years later, the justices receive the cases they requested, research by University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Associate Professor Vanessa Baird has found.

Pennsylvania State University Professor Richard Alley, an internationally known glaciologist and climate change expert, will give the 2010 George Gamow Memorial Lecture at the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ at Boulder on Monday, March 29.

I am extremely gratified at the White House's nomination of Dr. Carl Wieman to serve as associate director for science in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. If confirmed by Congress, Dr. Wieman will be a dynamic leader in helping to form effective science and technology policies for our nation. He has been a peerless researcher and teacher, and has been tireless in his devotion to science education over the last decade, revolutionizing how we teach at ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder and changing the landscape of teaching globally and nationally. March 22 White House News Release

Six University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ at Boulder faculty -- including three in a single department -- have been selected to receive National Science Foundation CAREER Awards.