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The blanket of sea ice that floats on the Arctic Ocean appears to have reached its lowest extent for 2011, the second lowest recorded since satellites began measuring it in 1979, according to the University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder's National Snow and Ice Data Center.

The University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder will celebrate Constitution Day with campus events including a student journalism panel and the launch of a new program at the University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Law School that will send Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ law students to high school classrooms throughout the state to discuss the First Amendment.

The University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Board of Regents today unanimously approved creation of the systemwide Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Biofrontiers Institute, building on the success of what began in 2003 as a grassroots "experiment" in the organization of multidisciplinary sciences.

In 2003, shortly after arriving in Iraq, an anti-tank mine blew off Army Maj. David Rozelle's right foot and part of his leg below the knee. Today, after three combat tours in Iraq -- two of which came after his injury -- Rozelle is the new commanding officer of the University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder's Army ROTC program.

During the past 10 years two Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ 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.

The University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Buffaloes vs. Cal-Berkeley Bears football game at Folsom Field on Sept. 10 is technically a nonconference game, but most in the campus community recognize that it's the beginning of a new era.

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which is carrying a suite of instruments including a $32 million University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder package, has provided scientists with new information that energy from some solar flares is stronger and lasts longer than previously thought.

The Tempest unmanned aircraft -- a University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder-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.

A surprising new discovery by the University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder 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.

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 University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder study.