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An international team of researchers has combined data from multiple sources to provide the clearest account yet of how much glacial ice surges into the sea following the collapse of Antarctic ice shelves.

An international team of astronomers led by the California Institute of Technology and involving the University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder has discovered the largest and farthest reservoir of water ever detected in the universe.

A $670 million NASA orbiting mission to probe the past climate of Mars led by the University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder reached a major milestone last week when it successfully completed its Mission Critical Design Review by the space agency.

The Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ economy will grow at a modest pace throughout the second half of 2011 with slow but positive job growth, according to economist Richard Wobbekind of the University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder's Leeds School of Business.

City of Boulder news release A Gilbert White Memorial Flood Level Marker dedication event will be held at 7 p.m. on Sunday, July 17, in Central Park, just east of the Broadway Bridge on the north side of Boulder Creek.

The Leeds School of Business at the University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder announced today that alumnus Richard "Dick" M. Burridge Sr. ('51 finance) has made a $2.5 million gift that, combined with other commitments, will establish a new chair, the Burridge Chair in Finance, the first to be established within the school.

NIST news release Showcasing new tools for widespread development of quantum circuits made of mechanical parts, scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder have demonstrated a flexible, broadly usable technique for steadily calming the vibrations of an engineered mechanical object down to the quantum "ground state," the lowest possible energy level.

Longtime University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Law School Dean David Getches, who had stepped down on June 30 in order to return to the school's faculty, died today. He was 68.

The University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder is involved with five different space science payloads ranging from antibody tests that may lead to new bone-loss treatments to an experiment to improve vaccine effectiveness for combating salmonella when Atlantis thunders skyward July 8 on the last of NASA's 135 space shuttle missions.

When NASA's 30-year-old space shuttle program is shuttered following the Atlantis mission in July, the University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder will look back at a rich relationship filled with triumph and tragedy and look ahead to an evolving international program of government and private efforts that will send humans and cargo into orbit.