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<p>The University of Colorado at ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß has been awarded $840,000 from the National Science Foundation for students to build a tiny spacecraft to observe energetic particles in space that should give scientists a better understanding of solar flares and their interaction with Earth's atmosphere.</p>

<p>University of Colorado alumnus-astronaut Jim Voss has become the second astronaut to join CU-¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß's aerospace engineering sciences department following his NASA career, which for Voss included five spaceflights, 202 days in space and four spacewalks.</p>

<p>Nobel laureate Tom Cech is returning to the University of Colorado full time this month after a 10-year stint as president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a nonprofit medical research organization headquartered in Chevy Chase, Md., and one of the nation's largest philanthropies.</p>

<p>Across the University of Colorado at ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß campus students are sharing answers, checking their responses to questions against those of their neighbors and making adjustments to those answers in hopes of earning a better grade.</p>

<p>In the largest research contract ever awarded to the University of Colorado at ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß, the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics has been selected by NASA to lead a $485 million orbiting space mission slated to launch in 2013 to probe the past climate of Mars, including its potential for harboring life over the ages.</p>

<p>The University of Colorado at ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß is teaming up with a ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß biotechnology company to use pythons, which dramatically increase their heart size for a short time after swallowing prey, as models for new therapeutics to treat cardiac diseases.</p>

<p>Assistant Professor Hang (Hubert) Yin of the University of Colorado at ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß's chemistry and biochemistry department has been selected to receive a prestigious Kimmel Scholar Award from the Sidney Kimmel Foundation for Cancer Research in Baltimore, the first such award received by a CU-¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß scientist.</p>

<p>A growing program at the University of Colorado at ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß is working to combat an impending crisis brought on by a shrinking pool of new K-12 science teachers. </p>
<p> Known as the Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics-Teacher Preparation project, it involves a collaboration between the School of Education and six campus science departments. </p>