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The University of Colorado at Boulder's Leeds School of Business will host teams from some of the most prestigious universities in North America for the sixth annual Leeds Net Impact Case Competition on Saturday, Feb. 24. The event will challenge teams of four MBA students to formulate business and financial strategies and apply them to a case study of a real-world company facing an issue related to sustainability. Strategies must address both profitability and environmentally friendly practices.

High school women from around the state may learn a new definition of "women's work" that includes everything from laser cutting and soldering to earthquake prediction and aeronautical design at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

The University of Colorado at Boulder is moving more than 40,000 e-mail accounts of faculty, staff, students and affiliates to a new e-mail system that integrates calendar functions with e-mail and gives student accounts five times more capacity.

The notion that more information about the science of human-caused climate change will spur effective problem solving by American society is just flat wrong, according to a University of Colorado at Boulder climate policy analyst.

A leading expert on machine learning and its applications to speech recognition, text processing and analysis of genomic sequences will present the 2007 Mervyn Young Memorial Lecture Feb. 22 at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Members of a research team led by the University of Colorado at Boulder have used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to peer at the embryo of an infant star in the nearby Eagle Nebula, which they believe may someday develop into a virtual twin of Earth's sun.

The growth of Colorado's mountain communities and "green" development are among the topics to be discussed at the University of Colorado Real Estate Council's 2007 conference on Wednesday, Feb. 28, from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Held annually, the conference will feature outlooks from national and local experts on real estate and capital markets. Co-sponsored by the CU-Boulder Leeds School of Business and the Urban Land Institute, it will be held at Denver's Westin Tabor Center at 1672 Lawrence St.

NASA astronaut Charles Camarda, who flew on the space shuttle Discovery in July 2005 and was involved in investigating the 2003 Columbia space shuttle accident, will speak at the University of Colorado at Boulder Feb. 21.

A more efficient steam-powered electricity generator, a hybrid plastic developed in part from discarded tires and a system to convert waste into renewable energy and organic fertilizer will be among the business plans presented at the second annual Cleantech Challenge March 1-2 at the Sheraton Four Points Hotel in Denver.

While snow and its effects on highways and city streets has been foremost on the minds of residents up and down Colorado's urban Front Range corridor since December, experts say snowpack levels in some mountain regions are below average and avalanche danger generally is no higher than it has been in previous years. "People have snow on their minds because it's clogged up their driveways for two months," said University of Colorado at Boulder glaciologist and avalanche expert Richard Armstrong of the National Snow and Ice Data Center. "So I understand the trigger."