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Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ business leaders remained confident, although generally less optimistic about the economy looking ahead to the third quarter, according to the most recent quarterly Leeds Business Confidence Index, or LBCI, released today by the University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder's Leeds School of Business.

A University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder research team has developed a new software program allowing neuroscientists to produce single brain images pulled from hundreds of individual studies, trimming weeks and even months from what can be a tedious, time-consuming research process.

University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder Provost Russell L. Moore today announced the formation of a five-member steering committee and eight campus discussion groups that will take the next key steps toward creating a school or college in the area of information, communication, journalism, media and technology, or ICJMT.

A novel University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder technique to shrink the size of circuitry used in nanotechnology devices like computer chips and solar cells by zapping a substrate with two separate colors of light beams has been optioned to Heidelberg Instruments headquartered in Heidelberg, Germany.

Community gardeners eat more vegetables, exercise more, weigh less and feel healthier than nongardeners -- and even home gardeners -- in the Denver-metro area, researchers led by scholars from the University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ have found.

Samples of icy spray shooting from Saturn's moon Enceladus collected during Cassini spacecraft flybys show the strongest evidence yet for the existence of a large-scale, subterranean saltwater ocean, says a new international study led by the University of Heidelberg and involving the University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder.

A famed Russian director will direct one of four plays to be offered at this summer's Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Shakespeare Festival at the University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder, including two bilingual performances.

The University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder will host the 2011 Linguistics Institute from July 7 to Aug. 2, a prestigious gathering of faculty and students from around the world that also will feature free films, workshops and lectures open to the public.

As the nation recognizes the 150th anniversary of the Civil War's start, public interest has been rekindled in the war and the numerous memorials and monuments marking historic figures, sites and battlegrounds in states around the country.

The National Science Foundation has awarded the University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder a six-year, $5.9 million grant to continue intensive studies of long-term ecological changes in Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ's high mountains, both natural and human-caused, over decades and centuries.