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A new University of Colorado at Boulder study indicates that not only do human hands harbor far higher numbers of bacteria species than previously believed, women have a significantly greater diversity of microbes on their palms than men.

Presidential Election and Congressional Races. Kenneth Bickers, professor and chair of the political science department, can comment on this year's presidential election and congressional races in Colorado and the nation. He also can address the youth vote, campaign issues and tactics and what polling can tell us. Bickers will be available for telephone interviews on election night to print and broadcast reporters who make arrangements with him in advance at bickers@colorado.edu or 303-492-2363.

The University Memorial Center will be the best place around to watch the final moments of the 2008 presidential election unfold and to see what CU-Boulder students think of the most important election of their lifetime.

The motivations behind teen behavior aren't always black and white, but when it comes to political identity, how young people talk about issues seems to be a matter of "blue" and "red."

CU-Boulder Chancellor G.P. "Bud" Peterson

In the quest to slow down and ultimately understand chemistry at the level of atoms and electrons, University of Colorado at Boulder and Canadian scientists have found a new way to peer into a molecule that allows them to see how its electrons rearrange as the molecule changes shape.

The University of Colorado announced a $5 million endowment gift from former Myogen CEO and local entrepreneur Bill Freytag and his wife, Janet, in support of the Colorado Initiative in Molecular Biotechnology, or CIMB, at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

As part of ongoing efforts to reduce its environmental footprint and a campus energy bill that exceeds $25 million a year, the University of Colorado at Boulder is rewarding employees who implement strategies to reduce energy costs and greenhouse gas emissions while providing conservation learning opportunities to students.

Before he came to the University of Colorado at Boulder, Patrick Kociolek spent a decade working to increase slumping attendance at the California Academy of Sciences, located in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park.

The University of Colorado at Boulder will test the Campus Alerts text-messaging system on Oct. 30 at noon.