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<p>The University of Colorado Board of Regents today unanimously approved creation of the systemwide Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBiofrontiers Institute, building on the success of what began in 2003 as a grassroots "experiment" in the organization of multidisciplinary sciences.</p>

<p>Arts and Culture Week, the annual celebration of Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ artistic and cultural resources, begins Sept. 12 with a variety of free and low-cost events for campus and community audiences.</p>

<p>DENVER—University of Colorado 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.</p>

<p>During the past 10 years two Colorado 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.</p>

<p>NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which is carrying a suite of instruments including a $32 million Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ package, has provided scientists with new information that energy from some solar flares is stronger and lasts longer than previously thought.</p>

<p>The Tempest unmanned aircraft -- a Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ-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.</p>

<p>A surprising new discovery by the Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ 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.</p>

<p>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 Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ study.</p>

<p>The Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ 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.</p>

<p>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 Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ.</p>