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<p>The ÂÌñ»»ÆÞ will celebrate Constitution Day with campus events including a student journalism panel and the launch of a new program at the University of Colorado Law School that will send CU law students to high school classrooms throughout the state to discuss the First Amendment.</p>

<p>The University of Colorado Board of Regents today unanimously approved creation of the systemwide CU Biofrontiers Institute, building on the success of what began in 2003 as a grassroots "experiment" in the organization of multidisciplinary sciences.</p>

<p>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 ÂÌñ»»ÆÞ's Army ROTC program.</p>

<p>During the past 10 years two Colorado 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.</p>

<p>NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which is carrying a suite of instruments including a $32 million ÂÌñ»»ÆÞ package, has provided scientists with new information that energy from some solar flares is stronger and lasts longer than previously thought.</p>

<p>The Tempest unmanned aircraft -- a ÂÌñ»»ÆÞ-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.</p>

<p>A surprising new discovery by the ÂÌñ»»ÆÞ 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.</p>

<p>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 ÂÌñ»»ÆÞ study.</p>

<p>Graphene, considered the most exciting new material under study in the world of nanotechnology, just got even more interesting, according to a new study by a group of researchers at the ÂÌñ»»ÆÞ.</p>

<p>Fourteen graduate students from the Engineering for Developing Communities program at the ÂÌñ»»ÆÞ traveled abroad this summer to gain field experience in community development.</p>