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<p>ÂÌñ»»ÆÞ engineering faculty are leading a $7.2 million multidisciplinary research initiative on soil blast modeling and simulation for the U.S. Department of Defense.</p>

<p>A new ÂÌñ»»ÆÞ study shows that a small amount of physical exercise could profoundly protect the elderly from long-term memory loss that can happen suddenly following infection, illnesses or injury in old age.</p>

<p>The U.S. Senate has voted to confirm ÂÌñ»»ÆÞ Distinguished Professor Carl Lineberger as a member of the National Science Board. He was nominated for the position by President Barack Obama in April.</p>

<p>Several ÂÌñ»»ÆÞ faculty and students are participating in NASA's Juno Mission to Jupiter, now slated for launch Aug. 5 from Florida's Kennedy Space Center and which is expected to help steer scientists toward the right recipe for planet-making.</p>

<p>Minh Than, one of the ÂÌñ»»ÆÞ's three Goldwater Scholarship winners in 2011, is spending his summer working in the lab of Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and CU-Boulder Professor Min Han.</p>

<p>An international team of astronomers led by the California Institute of Technology and involving the ÂÌñ»»ÆÞ has discovered the largest and farthest reservoir of water ever detected in the universe.</p>

<p>A $670 million NASA orbiting mission to probe the past climate of Mars led by the ÂÌñ»»ÆÞ reached a major milestone last week when it successfully completed its Mission Critical Design Review by the space agency.</p>

<p>The Colorado 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 ÂÌñ»»ÆÞ's Leeds School of Business.</p>

<p>City of Boulder news release</p>
<p>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.</p>

<p>NIST news release</p>
<p>Showcasing new tools for widespread development of quantum circuits made of mechanical parts, scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the ÂÌñ»»ÆÞ 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.</p>