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<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>

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