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August 28, 2008
CU And Boulder Biotech Company Team Up To Study Pythons For Clues To Heart Disease The University of Colorado at Boulder is teaming up with a Boulder biotechnology company to use pythons, which dramatically increase their heart size for a short time after swallowing prey, as models for new therapeutics to treat cardiac diseases.
CU-Boulder Named Second 'Greenest' School In The Nation By Sierra Magazine The University of Colorado at Boulder has been ranked the second "greenest" school in the nation by Sierra magazine in its 2008 September/October edition.
Student Engagement Effort Key To Steering CU Freshmen Away From High-Risk Alcohol Use In an effort to connect new University of Colorado at Boulder students to their school and community, and avoid the negative consequences of what's known as the "college effect," CU is ramping up its efforts to get students involved early.
CU-Boulder Engineering Professor Named One Of World's Top 35 Young Innovators Ronggui Yang, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder, has been named one of the world's top 35 young innovators in the September/October issue of Technology Review, a magazine published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
CU-Boulder-Led Spectrograph Team Awaits October Hubble Servicing Mission A $70 million instrument designed by the University of Colorado at Boulder that will be inserted on the Hubble Space Telescope during an October 2008 servicing mission should help astronomers better understand how galaxies, stars and planets evolved.

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