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<p>If the distance and difficulty of Colorado’s many organized bicycling events is any indication, a flat, 100-mile bicycle ride is not, for many riders, quite tough enough.</p>
<p>That’s one reason the 11th annual Buffalo Bicycle Classic’s longest route will go farther and climb higher than any of the event’s courses so far. The “Buff Epic” will span 110 miles and ascend a total of 6,250 feet. It retraces much of the most mountainous section of Stage 6 of the 2012 USA Pro Cycling Challenge.</p>

<p>The fact that taller people also tend to be slightly smarter is due in roughly equal parts to two phenomena—the same genes affect both traits and taller people are more likely than average to mate with smarter people and vice versa—according to a study led by the �鶹��Ѱ�����. </p>
<p>The study did not find that environmental factors contributed to the connection between being taller and being smarter, both traits that people tend to find attractive.</p>

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<p>DOE news release</p>
<p>Washington, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Energy today announced the members of the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board (SEAB). The nineteen member board comprised of scientists, business executives, academics and former government officials will serve as an independent advisory committee to Energy Secretary Moniz.</p></div></div>

<p>CU-Boulder is launching a new <a href="http://geneng.colorado.edu">General Engineering Plus</a> undergraduate degree with the <a href="http://geneng.colorado.edu/index.php/cu-teach/">�鶹��Ѱ�����Teach Engineering</a> concentration this fall for current first-year and sophomore students interested in earning secondary school (grades 7-12) science or math teaching licensure.</p>
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<p>The �鶹��Ѱ����� is launching a new <a href="http://geneng.colorado.edu">General Engineering Plus</a> undergraduate degree with the �鶹��Ѱ�����Teach Engineering concentration this fall for current first-year and sophomore students interested in earning secondary school (grades 7-12) science or math teaching licensure.</p>
<p>The GE+ degree program offers an interdisciplinary, hands-on, design-based engineering core curriculum, coupled with an engineering disciplinary emphasis (aerospace, mechanical, environmental, architectural, or civil) and a “Design Your Own” concentration in an area within or external to engineering.</p>

<p>For female North American barn swallows, looking good pays healthy dividends.</p>
<p>A new study conducted at the �鶹��Ѱ����� and involving Cornell University shows the outward appearance of female barn swallows, specifically the hue of their chestnut-colored breast feathers, has an influence on their physiological health.</p>

<p>A �鶹��Ѱ����� faculty member will travel to Africa later this month to test a mobile smartphone technology developed by his team to rapidly detect and track natural carcinogens, including aflatoxin, which is estimated to contaminate up to 25 percent of the global food supply and cause severe illnesses in humans and animals.</p>

<p>The �鶹��Ѱ�����’s newest residence hall, Kittredge Central, is welcoming students this week for the first time, 53 of whom are engineering students and will be immersed in Spanish through the building’s new Residential Academic Program, or RAP.</p>
<p>Also, the nearby Kittredge West residence hall is reopening this week after being unoccupied last school year while renovations were underway. Both buildings comprise a number of “green” features to improve water and energy efficiency and to reduce the campus’s carbon footprint.</p>

<p>The �鶹��Ѱ����� and Colorado Mesa University in Grand Junction today announced the successful accreditation of their partnership program by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET.</p>
<p>The partnership program allows students to earn a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from CU-Boulder by taking classes delivered at CMU. The program offers the first-ever baccalaureate engineering degree on Colorado’s Western Slope.</p>

<p>A new high-tech analysis led by a �鶹��Ѱ����� researcher shows the oldest known petroglyphs in North America, which are cut into several boulders in western Nevada, date to at least 10,500 years ago and perhaps even as far back as 14,800 years ago.</p>