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Through Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder's Office of Industry Collaboration, entrepreneur Bart Foster has teamed up with members of the campus community to look into an optical solution, how to recycle the byproduct of eyeglass lenses. Made out of three or more types of plastic, currently several tons of the material are dumped into landfills each year.

Climate change could remobilize abandoned hazardous waste thought to be buried forever beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet, new research finds.

Earlier snowmelt periods associated with a warming climate may hinder subalpine forest regulation of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), according to the results of a new University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder study. The findings, which were recently published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters , predict that this shift in the timing...

Nearly 750,000 asteroids and comets have been discovered in the solar system, but most are known only by relatively bland numerical designations. This is not the case for the asteroid formerly known as 1998 OS14. The rocky binary asteroids orbiting the sun are now officially dubbed (46829) McMahon after Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder Professor Jay McMahon.

The University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ’s BioFrontiers Institute has received a $1 million gift from John F. Milligan and Kathryn Bradford-Milligan of Hillsborough, California to establish a fund for graduate students participating in an interdisciplinary bioscience program.

Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Mesa University and Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder announced the expansion of their engineering program partnership to allow students to earn a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder by taking classes delivered at Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Mesa.

High-tech space hardware designed and built at Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder for biomedical experiments was successfully launched aboard the commercial SpaceX Dragon capsule to the International Space Station (ISS) July 18.

No summer slowdown exists for the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Community Engagement (ODECE). In partnership with academic departments across campus, ODECE hosts more than 1,500 middle and high school students, and soon-to-be freshmen in a variety of summer pre-collegiate programming.

The Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ economy continues to expand, outperforming the U.S. economy, according to a midyear economic update released July 15 by the Leeds School's Business Research Division (BRD). Employment in the state was up by 2.4 percent in May 2016. A total gain of 62,000 jobs in Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ is expected for 2016, nearly reaffirming the estimate given in December at the BRD's 51st annual Business Economic Outlook Forum .

The rate of groundwater contamination due to natural gas leakage from oil and gas wells has remained largely unchanged in northeastern Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ’s Denver-Julesburg Basin since 2001, according to a new University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder study based on public records and historical data.