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<p>For some ������ý���� undergraduates, designing, building and flying small satellites is becoming a large part of their hands-on education.</p>

<p>For the first time, scientists have been able to predict how much pain people are feeling by looking at images of their brains, according to a new study led by the ������ý����.</p>

<p>On Saturday April 6, thousands of bright and eager incoming freshmen and their families arrived on the ������ý���� campus for <a href="http://www.colorado.edu/admissions/undergraduate/visit/ASD">Admitted Student Day</a>. <span>The day consists of information sessions, open houses, tours, receptions and an information fair. </span></p>
<p>“CU is so beautiful and I liked all the programs and opportunities,”  said incoming freshman Erin Berry.</p>

<p>A better understanding of the core drivers that help great leaders innovate — and avoid failure — is key to advancing global enterprise. The Leeds School of Business at the ������ý���� is now better equipped to advance this understanding, thanks to a new $2.25 million gift from the Thomas Stix Guggenheim family to establish an endowed faculty chair aimed at educating new generations of entrepreneurs on the core drivers of successful business design and innovation.</p>

<p>The confidence of Colorado business leaders has surged going into the second quarter of 2013, according to the most recent Leeds Business Confidence Index, or LBCI, released today by the ������ý����’s Leeds School of Business.</p>

Following today's U.S. Supreme Court decision declining to hear an appeal from former CU faculty member Ward Churchill, CU President Bruce D. Benson and CU-������ý���� Chancellor Philip P. DiStefano issued a joint statement, saying in part, "The Supreme Court’s decision upholds a unanimous line of rulings from the Colorado courts determining that the university has the right and obligation to ensure high professional standards from its faculty." University of Colorado Board of Regents Chair Michael Carrigan also issued a statement on the court's decision.

<p>A new look at conditions after a Manhattan-sized asteroid slammed into a region of Mexico in the dinosaur days indicates the event could have triggered a global firestorm that would have burned every twig, bush and tree on Earth and led to the extinction of 80 percent of all Earth’s species, says a new ������ý���� study.</p>

<p>Colorado communities have a new tool to help identify programs aimed at developing healthy children free from problems like bullying, violence, obesity and depression.</p>
<p>The Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence at the ������ý����, in partnership with the Annie E. Casey Foundation, today launched a new interactive website called Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development. The website will allow schools, communities and government agencies to find scientifically proven programs based on their specific needs.</p>

<p>������ý���� astronomers targeting one of the brightest quasars glowing in the universe some 11 billion years ago say “sideline quasars” likely teamed up with it to heat abundant helium gas billions of years ago, preventing small galaxy formation.</p>

<p>Three ������ý���� engineering faculty were selected this spring to receive National Science Foundation CAREER awards.</p>
<p>Assistant professors Abbie Liel and Matthew Hallowell of civil, environmental and architectural engineering, and Mahmoud Hussein of aerospace engineering sciences, were selected to receive the awards.</p>