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January 8, 2009

CU-Boulder Students Approach Final Countdown in National Nanosatellite Competition With thousands of hours logged on the project over nearly two years, University of Colorado at Boulder students are approaching the finals in what has been referred to as the national championship series for satellite design, sponsored by the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research.

CU-Boulder Freshmen to Participate in HHMI Program to Research Genomes of Viruses The University of Colorado at Boulder is one of 12 colleges selected today by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to participate in the Science Education Alliance, an ambitious higher education program designed to involve freshmen in scientific discovery on a national scale.

Hank Brown's CU Political Science Class to Focus on Health Care Reform; Invited Lecturers Include Gov. Bill Ritter and Former Colorado Gov. Dick Lamm With a new president and a new Congress taking up the nation's business in less than two weeks, health care reform will loom large on the national agenda. That makes it a timely and relevant subject for University of Colorado at Boulder political science professor and CU President Emeritus Hank Brown to tackle this semester, which he and a CU-Boulder undergraduate political science class will do in a special course titled "The Politics of Health Care Reform."

Avian Flu Becoming More Resistant to Antiviral Drugs, Says CU-Boulder Study A new University of Colorado at Boulder study shows the resistance of the avian flu virus to a major class of antiviral drugs is increasing through positive evolutionary selection, with researchers documenting the trend in more than 30 percent of the samples tested.

Author Art Spiegelman to Speak at CU Jan. 25 as Part of Comic Exhibit at UMC Pulitzer Prize-winning author and illustrator Art Spiegelman will give a free public lecture on the history and importance of comics on Sunday, Jan. 25, at 4:30 p.m. in Macky Auditorium highlighting a month-long exhibit titled "Graphia: Comics, Graphic Novels and the Humanities on the Front Range."

CU-Boulder Researchers Show Why Peer Discussion Improves Student Performance on 'Clicker' Questions Across the University of Colorado at Boulder campus students are sharing answers, checking their responses to questions against those of their neighbors and making adjustments to those answers in hopes of earning a better grade.

Colorado Trade with Europe is Subject of CU Conference Colorado's trade with the European Union, which brings billions to the state and has been growing, is the subject of a conference in Denver this month.

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