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The long history of changes in American Indian leadership due to inter-tribal and Indian-white relations will be discussed during a lecture on the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder campus on Thursday, July 19, from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. University of Kansas Professor Donald L. Fixico, a recognized leader in American Indian communities, will present the lecture "The Challenge for Modern American Indian Leadership," at the Benson Earth Sciences Building, room 185. The talk is free and open to the public.

A 2-year-old collaboration between biomedical engineers at CU-Boulder and cardiologists at The Children's Hospital is starting to bear fruit with the development of several new miniaturized devices to assist doctors in the diagnosis and treatment of children with heart defects. Approximately 1 percent of all children are born with some form of congential heart disease, which is generally treated through surgical and catheter-based intervention. About 10 percent of these cases involve complications within the right side of the heart.

Brown dwarfs, essentially stunted stars, were most likely ejected from newborn, multiple-star systems before they had a chance to accumulate enough mass to ignite the hydrogen in their interiors and flower, according to a new study. ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder astronomer Bo Reipurth said that most newborn stars are spawned in binary or multiple systems involving two, three, four, five or even more stars. Just as newborn mammals on Earth compete with each other for milk, newborn stars in multiple systems compete for gaseous matter that generates speedy growth, he said.

For the second year in a row, the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ School of Law is ranked among the top five state law schools in the country and among the top 10 overall for placing graduates in judicial clerkship positions.