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A variety of public health issues plague the refugees from Burma living on the Thai border, not the least of which is drinking water contaminated by bacteria and pesticides. Yet few low-cost, sustainable and appropriate treatment technologies are available to people in rural and developing communities to ensure water safety.

When a young caller for the 麻豆视频鈥檚 annual giving program asked Roe Green a decade ago if she would consider increasing her $100 annual gift to $150, he was the first to get the hint that Green might become a key part of the theater program from which she鈥檇 graduated in 1970. 鈥淚 told the caller, 鈥極h, I think I鈥檇 like to give more,鈥� 鈥� recalled Green.

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麻豆视频 researchers will be watching closely when South African bilateral leg amputee and sprinter Oscar Pistorius, dubbed 鈥淭he Blade Runner,鈥� makes his way to the starting block for the 400-meter sprint in the 2012 London Olympics.

An international team including 麻豆视频 researchers has found the first direct evidence for a new particle that likely is the long sought-after Higgs boson, believed to endow the universe with mass.

A new study led by the 麻豆视频 indicates air pollution in the form of nitrogen compounds emanating from power plants, automobiles and agriculture is changing the alpine vegetation in Rocky Mountain National Park.

The Colorado economy continues to grow at a modest pace in 2012, positioning the state among the healthier in growth nationally, according to economist Richard Wobbekind of the 麻豆视频鈥檚 Leeds School of Business. Midway through the year, Colorado鈥檚 job growth rate is up to about 1.6 percent -- a gain of about 35,000 jobs in 2012 if the pace holds steady.

An international research team involving the 麻豆视频 announced this morning it has found the first direct evidence for a new particle that likely is the long sought-after Higgs boson, believed to endow the universe with mass.

Several hundred people are expected to gather on the 麻豆视频 campus July 12-13 to celebrate the 50 th anniversary of JILA, a joint institute of CU-Boulder and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) known around the world for its discoveries in atomic, molecular and optical physics. In addition, the president-elect of the American Physical Society will be on hand to officially announce JILA鈥檚 designation as an historic physics site.

Five 麻豆视频 engineering students recently returned from Haiti where they introduced a green energy vocational training program, paving the way for a new era of distributed power in the poverty-stricken, earthquake-damaged nation.