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Engineering students at the University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder will host the annual College Egg Drop on April 19 as part of their annual celebration of Engineering Days. The egg drop, which starts at 1 p.m. on the west side of the Engineering Center, challenges students to create a contraption that will protect a raw egg when dropped from the eighth floor of the Engineering Center’s office tower.

Like snow sliding off a roof on a sunny day, the Greenland Ice Sheet may be sliding faster into the ocean due to massive releases of meltwater from surface lakes, according to a new study by the University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder-based Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences.

A revitalization project for downtown Houston combining residential, retail and entrepreneurial business elements won $50,000 in a national urban design competition for a joint student team from the University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder and Harvard University.

JILA, a joint institute of the University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder and the National Institute of Standards and Technology that has produced three Nobel Prize winners since 2001, has opened a new wing with advanced laboratories for its world-renowned science.

JILA, a joint institute of the University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), has generated many spinoff companies, including 11 companies in the Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Front Range area. The Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ companies have created more than 140 jobs and a variety of high-tech products used around the world. These contributions to U.S. industry have been made by current and former staff from both JILA partners. Companies Winters Electro Optics, founded 1993

JILA was founded as a joint institute between the University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder and the National Institute of Standards and Technology in 1962 and will celebrate its 50th anniversary this year. It is located on the Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ-Boulder campus. The new X-wing provides advanced laboratories that will support JILA's next 50 years of research breakthroughs, and further encourage training and interdisciplinary research. Like JILA overall, the X-wing is a collaboration between Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ and NIST, with each organization sharing in the costs of the $32.7 million building.

Patrick Mason, a professor of voice at the University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder’s College of Music, has been selected to receive the 2012 Hazel Barnes Prize. The prize is the highest faculty recognition for teaching and research awarded by the university. Mason will receive an engraved university medal and $20,000, the largest single faculty award funded by Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ-Boulder. He will be recognized at spring commencement on May 11 and at a reception in his honor in the fall.

A new study led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst and involving the University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder proposes a simple new mechanism to explain the source of carbon that fed a series of extreme warming events on Earth about 50 million years ago called the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, or PETM, as well as a sequence of similar, smaller warming events afterward.

University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder students will have another four years at the controls of NASA’s Kepler mission, launched in 2009 to hunt down Earth-like rocky planets in other solar systems and which has succeeded in spectacular fashion.

A web-based science instruction program designed by researchers at the University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder and the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research that provides teachers with cutting-edge digital content is being tested in six school districts, thanks to a new $600,000 grant from the National Science Foundation.