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<p>Aerospace engineering students at the Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ will host the annual Students for the Exploration and Development of Space conference, SpaceVision 2011, in Boulder Oct. 27-30.</p>

<p>The Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ today announced that it has implemented several new programs over the past three years designed to make computer science more female-friendly, with the larger goal of increasing the number of women employed in technology roles nationwide.</p>

<p>COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ faculty will join with University of Colorado Colorado Springs faculty to teach courses in the design and implementation of electric vehicle drivetrains to new and retraining engineers.</p>

<p>Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ (CU) have developed a low-power microchip that uses a combination of microfluidics and magnetic switches to trap and transport magnetic beads. The novel transport chip may have applications in biotechnology and medical diagnostics.</p>

<p>Cindy Regal, a Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ assistant professor of physics and associate fellow of JILA, has been awarded a prestigious David and Lucile Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering.</p>

<p>ENew assessments by researchers using the latest high-tech tools to study the diets of early hominids are challenging long-held assumptions about what our ancestors ate, says a study by the Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ and the University of Arkansas.</p>

<p>John McPhee, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Encounters With the Archdruid" and "Coming Into the Country," will receive the Wallace Stegner Award from the Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ's Center of the American West on Oct. 27.</p>

<p>A new study of sediments laid down shortly after an asteroid plowed into the Gulf of Mexico 65.5 million years ago, an event that is linked to widespread global extinctions including the demise of big dinosaurs, suggests that lowly worms may have been the first fauna to show themselves following the global catastrophe.</p>

<p>A group of planetary scientists have released a new Spanish-language teaching resource featuring colorful graphics and explanatory text to get the word out on the latest space discoveries both in and outside of Earth's solar system.</p>

<p>When considering giving money to humanitarian crises people often donate in response to events that grab their immediate emotions, according to a recent study by researchers at the Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ and Dresden University of Technology in Germany.</p>